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Training Type: Conference
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Suitable for: Consultants, Students, Regulators, Others with an interest in urban land management
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Provided By: Division 4 of the International Union of Soil Sciences
The Albanian Ministry of Agriculture, Tirana
The Albanian Ministry of Environment, Tirana
The University of Agriculture, Tirana
The Albanian Institute of Soil Science, Tirana
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Berne
The Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, Berne
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (Group of Plant Nutrition and Group of Soil Protection)
The Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture, Zurich
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Language: English
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Venue: to be confirmed, Albania
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Date(s): 13/03/2005 to 18/03/2005
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Duration: 1-6 Days
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Cost: () to be confirmed
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Abstract submission date: room for about 12 invited speakers and 22 volunteered oral presentations with sufficient time for discussions. The presentations will be organized on 6 following sessions:
1. Stakeholder views: demand from policy and land use management, review of current status in different countries.
2. Principles and concepts of element balances: methodological question.
3. Element balances on local scale: field scale and farm gate.
4. Element balances on regional scale.
5. National and supra-national element balances.
6. Critical limits and loads.
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Oral presentations requested: Yes
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Poster sessions: Yes
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Activities: No
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Exhibition: No
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Pre-conference field trips: Yes
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Technical tours/ site visits: Yes
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Post conference field trips: Yes
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Other conference activities: 5 days with 4 days of presentations (3 days of oral and 1 day of poster presentation) and one day of excursion.
Group discussions (with 15-20 persons/group) will be organized around the following themes:
1. Reliability and accuracy of element balances: quality control and assessment, data quality, uncertainty analyses and model validation.
2. Spatial aspects: data aggregation and disaggregation, linking data and balance models at different spatial scales.
3. Element fluxes in agroecosystems by erosion and leaching.
4. Prevention concept: critical limits and loads for soil pollutants.
5. Practical application, implementation of element balances in environmental pollution monitoring, control and land management.
6. Harmonization of methods, standards and protocols
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Contact: S. Sinaj, E. Frossard and Paolo Demaria
Email:
paolo.demaria@ipw.agrl.ethz.ch
Web Link:
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Submitted by:
Richard Ogden
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