Conference Themes and Programme

-Geochemistry for sustainable development: poverty alleviation, ecosystem services.

-Soil and water contamination and air pollution. 

-Mining and legacy issues to inform future policy.

-Climate change and Environmental Degradation: Land-use planning, hazard assessment and mitigation.

-Impact of Agricultural development on the environment efficient delivery of macro-/micronutrients to crops.

-Urban agriculture and Food Safety.

-Soil and water geochemistry influence on plant, animal and human health. 

-Multiple stressors and biodiversity conservation.

-Water resource management.

-Geochemistry dynamics in aquatic ecosystems.

-Water and the Community

-Erosion and sediment transport

-Flood risk management

-Spatial tools, predictive models, remote sensing and communications.

-Isotope Tracers and Elemental Speciation.

-Technology fit-for-purpose e.g. sensors, live data collation, tools for collation/delivery of data.

-Laboratory method development for environmental and health studies.

-Statistics – sampling strategies, data interpretation tools for communicating science to policymakers and the general public.

-Epidemiology and endemic diseases associated with pollution and deficiency of essential nutrients.

-Biomarkers for monitoring exposure to pollutants or health status.

-Science to policy - social impact, economics, ethics and policies.

-Population Health and Sanitation.

-Planetary health .

-Wildlife and livestock health: exposure to pollutants and poor nutrition.