2 Past Events found

NICOLE (Network for Contaminated Land in Europe) Past Events

Turning Failure into Success – What Can We Learn When Remediation Does Not go as Planned?

Jun. 15-17, 2016 Vienna

There is continuous effort needed to manage land contamination in an effective way, and hence to find ways to optimize the current ways of working. Often, workshops and conferences try to find the solutions in presenting success cases as templates to replicate. Yet, there are a number of remediation projects not meeting the various stakeholders expectations and thus requiring new thinking to achieve the outcome expected. Owing to the level of trust NICOLE’s members have built over time among themselves, it seems possible to have open discussions around projects having encountered obstacles on their way to completion and to learn from these. Therefore the decision was taken to hold a workshop on the non-successes, and even on the failures or on “what goes wrong” and what we can learn from this for the next project or the future.

Environmental Decision Support Systems - Truth or Dare!

Oct. 8-10, 2008 Madrid

Decision Support Systems (DSS) are (computer-based) systems that facilitate the use of data, models, and structures the decision processes in decision making. The optimal DSS should attempt to integrate, analyze, and present environmental information to remediation project managers in order to select cost-effective cleanup strategies. The optimal system should have a balance between the sophistication needed to address the wide range of site conditions, and ease of use, e.g., the system should not require data that is typically unknown and should have robust error checking (QA/QC) of problem definition through input, etcetera. Care must be taken by the analyst to match the capabilities of the DSS with the problem requiring a decision.

The objective of this workshop is to present several Environmental DSS in terms of their capabilities and limitations and to discuss the acceptance of this DSS in our daily decision making processes.