ICPA - Sustainable Management of the Natural Resources

Research Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry

ICPA Bucharest

ACTIVITIES

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Sustainable Management of the Natural Resources and Environment;

Soil Pollution; Global Change; Rural Development

Assessing sustainable use of soil and land resources;

Sustainable land use planning and technological recommendation;

Evaluation of the quality of the soil resources and elaboration of measures for their protection, conservation and amelioration;

Pollution of soil - in relation to air, freshwater and groundwater pollution - and the consequences on human health;

Pedological characterization aiming at agricultural land use restructuring and resource conservation at different levels (village, county and nation-wide scale);

Land evaluation in the context of private agriculture and market economy; Information for land reform;

Technological recommendations for irrigation, drainage, tillage and control of soil erosion, salinity and compaction;

Ecological rehabilitation of polluted soils (oils, heavy metals, pesticides, etc.) by different means, including microbiological possibilities; Evaluation of the behaviour of pollutants within the soil-plant system and establishing measures for prevention, limitation and control their harmful effect;

Ecological rehabilitation of degraded land and dumps resulted from surface mining and other human activities;

Field experiments and simulation models for the estimation of the effects of compaction on soils and crop production;

Soil microbiology; Microflora evolution in different pedological conditions;

Developing drought response units characterizing the sensitivity of land units to water stresses; Assessment of desertification risk and prevention;

Estimation of the relationships between drought and pollution processes;

Developing tillage systems adapted to soil and climate conditions;

Global change and climate change (scenarios/predictions on time and space scales);

Development of specific simulation and optimization models;

Rural development.

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