Environmental pollution by harmful anthropogenic substances and uncontrolleduse of natural reserves have become a global problem and require substantialefforts ... » 

Environmental pollution by harmful anthropogenic substances and uncontrolleduse of natural reserves have become a global problem and require substantialefforts for developing and applying efficient measures of control mitigationand abatement. For achieving this goal predictions of possibly resulting risksand impacts are urgently needed for future environmental planning. The majorityof environmental quality models is focussing on selected isolated parts of thegeosystem though impacts on one compartment usually also affect one or moreother parts. There is a strong need to advance to an integral treatment of airsoil and water pollution by combining different models for different media.Furthermore it is imperative to develop and apply modern methods of controltheory to environmental risk assessment in order to support mitigation andabatement measures in an optimal way. The aim of the NATO Advanced ResearchWorkshop on Air Water and Soil Quality Modelling for Risk and ImpactAssessment was to further joint environmental compartment modelling andapplications of control theory to environmental management. The articles of theproceedings provide an overview of ongoing research in this field regardingassessment of environmental risks and impacts. Besides selected issues ofpractical application they address questions of forward and inverse modellingintegrated treatment of environmental changes and economic impacts as well asaspects of future development of numerical environmental modelling. «