Soil and Biowaste in Southern Europe. Report of Rome International Conference. 18-19 January 2001

Copertina e Sommario

SESSION I

• The role of biodegradable waste management in the fight against desertification
  and greenhouse effect (Rosanna Laraia, ANPA)
• The role of biodegradable waste management for improving soil quality
  in the community (Luca Marmo Administrator, Sustainable
  Resources Unit, DG Environment, European Commission)
• Soil and Terrestral Envirnment (Winfried E.H. blum, University of Agricultural Science, Vienna)
• The status of the Mediterranean soil (Jean-Paul Legros, Inra-Ensa Science du sol
  and Gianniantonio Petruzzelli, Istituto per la Chimica del Terreno, Area di Ricerca CNR)
• Industrial Contaminated Sites - Propectives in Southern Europe
  (Simonetta Tunesi, Environmental Expert)
• Compost biotechnology in an integrated management of degradable organic waste
  and in the reclamation of disturbed soils (Giovanni Vallini, University
  of Verona - Department of Science and Technology, Laboratories
  of Microbial Biotechnology and Environmental Microbiology)
• The Role of Anaerobic Digestion for the Production of Energy
  and soil Improvers (Franco Cecchi and Laura Innocenti, Department of Science
  and Technology University of Verona - Italy)
• Compost - a burden on local authorities or an opportunity
  for sustainable agriculture? (Julio Berbel Vecino, Universitad de Cordoba)
• Composting and biological treatment in Southern European 5ountries:
  an overview (Liliana Cortellini, Environmental expert and Enzo Favonio,
  Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza Working Group on Composting)

SESSION II

• An assessment of effective, optimised schemes for source separation of organic
  waste in Mediterranean Districts (Enzo Favonio Gruppo di Studio sul Compostaggio
  e la Gestione Integrata dei Rifiuti, Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza
  and Francesc Giró i Fontanals, Generalitat de Catalunya, Junta de Residus)
• Success Stories on Composting and Separate Collection. only a Question of Luck?
  (Simon Aumônier Environmental Resources Management Oxford)
• Compost quality and market perspectives - the case of Portugal (Manuel Souteiro
  Gonçalves Agronomist, Ph. D Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária/Laboratório
  Químico Agrícola Rebelo da Silva)
• From Waste to a Valuable Product - Quality Assurance Schemes for Compost Production (J. Barth, Informa Compost Consultants, Germany)
• Use of sewage sludge in agriculture Presentation of an opinion from the Economic
  and Social ommittee of the EU (Staffan Nilsson member of the ESC, Member
  of the Board of the Federation of Swedish Farmers (LRF)

PANEL DISCUSSION: THE Development of a Market for Compost

• Glòria Colom i puigbò (Organic Waste Department of Cepa Catalonia)
• Silvia Calamandrei (Head of Division of the Section of "Agriculture, rural
  Development and Environment Protection of the Economic and Social Committee
  of the European Union)
• Agostino Braga (Council of European Municipalities and Regions)