From: gronsse@vnet3.vub.ac.be
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: CFP: ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES ON ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
Date: 19 Nov 92 01:01:15 GMT
Expires: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:00:00 GMT
Organization: (none)


Call for posters
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR: ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES ON ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH IN
URBAN AREAS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

Katowice/Cracow, Poland
9-12 December 1992

INVITATION

Urban areas of ecological disaster, and cities in Central and Eastern
European countries face rapid economic changes and are therefore challenged
to take appropriate decisions related to environmental, public and urban
health matters.
The international seminar to be held in Katowice (Upper-Silezia) and Cracow
is designed to report about the state of the art in current research on the
impact of environmental pollution on human health. It shall discuss
appropriate environmental health actions for urban areas, cities and
ecological disaster regions.
The seminar shall be structured in such a way that key-note lectures and
reviews shall be presented by international experts on various urban and
environmental health topics and that reviews shall be presented of the
state of the environment, risk management, and urban strategies for the
regions of Upper-Silezia and Cracow. On various policy topics round table
discussions shall also be organized in view of common strategies in regions
and cities in Central and Eastern Europe facing similar problems.
Therefore institutions and authorities from these regions and cities are
invited to contribute to the seminar, expert discussions and poster
sessions.
The seminar/symposium outcome is formally linked to th eFirst Global
Conference on environment and Public Health in Modern Society (EPH '93),
and on Environment and Health in Urban Areas (CITY '93), organized jointly
with the World Health Organization and in collaboration with the Commission
of the European Communities. This conference will be held in Antwerp,
Belgium, 24-30 October 1993.

ORGANIZERS AND SPONSORS

-Society for Research on Environment and Health, Brussels, in cooperation
with Community Health Services, Antwerp.
-Commission for the Protection of Public Health, Polish Academy of
Sciences, Cracow.
-The Voidship of Upper-Silezia, Katowice, and the Silezian Environmental
Health Monitoring Programme, Sosnowiec.
-The city of Cracow

The seminar is prepared in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Regional Office for Europe and its European Centre for Environment and
Health (ECEH), and shall be held under the patronage of the International
Association for Research on Civilization, Health and the Environment.

RESEARCH AND POLICY THEMES AT A GLANCE

-Impact of pollution on human health: Urban environmental epidemiology,
ecotoxicology in urban areas, geographical information systems, ecological
compartments (outdoor and indoor air pollution, water quality, soil
contamination, food and plants), risk assessment (chemicals and heavy
metals, pesticides and ionizing radiation, food and drinking water, waste
disposal sites).
-Translating science into environmental health policy: European policy
options to reduce exposure and risks, limit values C.E.C., E.P.A. and other
agencies, health component of environmental impact assessment (E.I.A.),
lead intoxication/impregnation in children: strategies and implementation
in C/E Europe, carcinogenic risk assessment and risk management in C/E
European regions of ecological disaster, environmental health monitoring
programmes in C/E Europe, environmental (health) legislation in C/E Europe,
transboundary environmental (health) policy panel in C/E Europe, low
emission abatement: traffic and energy, waste disposal sites: municipal
management, urban environment, planning and health.
-Problem-oriented case studies and human ecology: Methodology and
interdisciplinary research, problem-oriented case studies,
cross-disciplinary training and human ecology, risk communication and
environmental education, industrial centres and the general environment,
local environmental health services and sustainable development.
-Urban environment and sustainable development: Economic development,
environment and public health in C/E European urban areas, urban
regeneratio, traffic, energy policy, housing, strategies for healthy
cities, towns and for sustainable cities, role of various partners in risk
management at local level (local authorities and decision-makers, experts
and professional groups, communiicipation in decision-making, media and
risk communication, socioeconomic partners), ecological education and he
the local and urban level.

FIELD PROGRAMME:

As the seminar/symposium is to take place in one of the "ecological
disaster regions" of Central Europe, a remarkable (facultative) field
programme is developed which includes visits to selected plants such as a
coke plant, lead smelter, coal mine and coal combustion power station. The
trips shall include briefings on occupational and environmental hazards, as
well as meetings with health and safety staff, managers, and labour union
representatives. The state of environmental health in Silezia shall be
presented as well as the present Silezian Programme on the Environment and
Health Monitoring. The seminar is believed to be of special interest not
only for representatives of areas facing similar environmental health
problems, but also for institutions from the European Community and Nordic
countries active in the fields of environmental health and human ecology.

TARGET GROUPS:

1. Environmental epidemiologists, ecotoxicologists, environmental sciences,
management sciences, social sciences, human ecology
2. Environmental and health professionals (key figures) and their
associations; environmental health services
3. Local and regional authorities, cities, and administrators
4. Research institutions which cooperate with related programmes in Central
and Eastern European countries.

LOCATION:

The seminar/symposium shall be held both in Katowice, the central city of
the Upper-Silezian industrial region, and in Cracow, a centre of Polish
culture. Katowice takes part in the UNDP/World Bank programme of
Sustainable Cities. Cracow is on the list of the most precious
architectural treasures of the world (UNESCO World Cultural Heritage), and
takes part in the Polish Programme of Healthy Cities.

PREFINAL PROGRAMME AND POSTERS

The prefinal list of experts, lectures and workshops shall be available at
the beginning of November 1992. Abstracts for short communications during
workshops or for poster sessions should reach the symposium secretariats
before 31 October (postal mark). Forms are available on request.

REGISTRATION FEE SEMINAR AND SYMPOSIUM LANGUAGE

The expenses (registration fee, accommodation) are expected to be about 200
ECUs, or 8,000 Belgian Francs. Special conditions are offered to delegates
from Central/Eastern European countries. Application forms are available on
request. Abstract form and curriculum vitae should be sent immediately to
the Silezian or the Antwerp Secretariat.
The official language of the seminar shall be English.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

-Polish Secretariat Environment and Health Seminar:
Silesian Programme on Environmental Health Monitoring
Institute of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
Koscielna 13 Str.
41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
Tel.: (4832) 66.06.40 - fax: (4832) 66.11.24
or:
-S.R.E.H. Secretariat Environment and Health Seminar:
Society for Research on Environment and Health
c/o Community Health Services
Uitbreidingsstraat 506
B-2600 Antwerp, Belgium
Tel.: (323) 230.92.32 - fax: (323) 230.16.44

(Sorry, but the organizers have no E-mail. You can contact eventually Glenn
Ronsse at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Human Ecology Department at:
gronsse@vnet3.vub.ac.be)
Glenn Ronsse

gronsse@vnet3.vub.ac.be
Free University Brussels
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Human Ecology Department
(Eenheid Menselijke Ecologie)
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel
Belgium
Tel.: 32-2-641.34.24
Fax: 32-2-641.36.12