Global Soil Week 2015: Soil, the Substance of Transformation

The 3rd Global Soil Week is one of the major events of the UN International Year of Soils 2015. JRC-Institute for Environment and Sustainability has supported the organisation of the GSW in the framework of the collaboration agreement nr. 33306 with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)-Germany. The article summarises the sessions of the conference where JRC has actively contributed as follwing: 1. L. Montanarella (main organizer of the event as well as Chair of the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soil (ITPS) 2. A. Jones (Co-organizer of the Open-Space Session – “Giving living soil a voice: approaches and tools”). 3. A. Paya-Perez (Co-organizer of the Dialogue Session – “Building a knowledge and innovation platform on diffuse and point soil contamination as a base for (inter) national soil policies”). 4. A. Romanowicz (Organizer of the Open-Space Session – “Discussion on European soil data base update in light of the revision of the soil atlas of Europe: examples from Finland and Central European countries” and co-organizer of the Dialogue Session – “Soils and seas in the nexus: linking sustainable land management and the coastal and marine environments”) 5. P. Borrelli (Poster presentation and media-stand)

MONTANARELLA Luca;  JONES Arwyn;  PAYA PEREZ Ana;  ROMANOWICZ Agnieszka;  BORRELLI Pasquale; 

2015-07-09

International Institute for Sustainable Development

JRC96094

http://www.iisd.ca/soil/gsw3/,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC96094,