Primary purpose of the Advanced Research Workshop held in Liberec, Czech Republic, in November 1995 was to present and to discuss the main goals, contents, projects, partners, and implications of a proposed non profit European Research Network, which aims at establishing research nodes at key locations in European NATO and CP countries. In papers and contributions, individual and common projects and approaches were introduced and refined. All projects are directed to solutions for the heavily polluted "Black Triangle" Bohemia, Saxony, and Silesia, which was selected as a nucleus for the network because of its geographical location and cross border environmental problems. In several presentations the general strategy for tackling these critical problems were outlined. A number of contributions offered potential and model solutions for individual project parts, or new project ideas and ap proaches. Incorporation of heterogeneous environmental systems, computer based environmental planning, contaminated site assessment, and remedia tion technology selection were discussed as well as various descriptions and evaluations of contamination problems on industrial and military areas in connection with proposals and techniques for clean-up and recultivation. Examples for application of modern technologies in the conversion process were presented, e.g., recycling, incineration or supercritical oxidation. Fur ther contributions considered the necessities for knowledge availability and transfer as well as the future challenge of preventing any harmful influence on the environment.

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Invited and Plenary Papers, Project Presentation.- Network for Environmental Education in Poland.- Design of a Cross-Regional Environmental Information System.- The Environmentally Damaged Areas in the Czech Republic and New Approach to their Assessment and Delimitation.- Clean Technology for Sustainable Development.- Pollution Prevention in the Military and Industry Provides Improved Environmental Protection Opportunities for West and East.- Disarmament.- Contamination Problems on Military Areas in the Czech Republic.- Environmental Pollution of Former Soviet Garrisons in Czechia and Slovakia.- Environmental Risk Assessment for Former Military Training Areas.- Environmental Impact of Explosives from Ammunition Waste.- Advanced Demilitarization Technologies: Disposal of Hazardous Military Waste by Supercritical, Ultrasonic or Microwave Irradiation.- Oxidizing Destruction of Organic Compounds in Diluted Water Solutions.- Environment.- Ecological Problems of Border Areas in the Neisse Euroregion and a Trial of its Improvement.- Purification of Hydrocarbon or Halogenated Hydrocarbon Contaminated Ground Water and/or Employed Process Air by Rectification and/or Charcoal Adsorption/Simultaneous Telemetrie Control of Large Numbers of Multiple Charcoal Adsorber Batch Filter Chains.- Regional Waste Management with Integrated Thermal Waste Treatment.- WEBER's Substitute Fuel Production from Combustible Matter Noxious to Environment.- Environment II.- Biotechnological Innovations in Energy and Environmental Management.- Environmental Biotechnology in Poland.- Priorities and Progress in the Application of Micro-Organisms to the Management of Toxic Metals/Radionuclides Pollution.- Biotechnological Treatment of Oil and PAH Polluted Soils and Sediments Using the SlurryDecontamination Process.- Concept and Technologies for Soil Remediation.- Problems with Hazardous Waste from the Past Experiences, Main Work Steps and Economic Problems.- Human Resources.- Self-Study and -Training in Remote Sensing and Geo Information Systems.- Energy-Ecology Auditing in Industry Experiences and Planes of Post-Graduate Studies.- EuroPACE 2000 On Demand Learning System for Information and Training on High Risk Environment.- The European Dimension in Regional Sciences and the Network of Spatial Research Institutes in Central and Eastern Europe.- BIC-Neiße, a Place for Innovative Companies and Entrepreneurs in the Heart of the Euroregion Neiße.- Environment Management Ways of Organization Financing Possibilities.- High Technology.- EDP Assisted Systems for Planning and Design of Opencast Mines and Waste Deposits, Optimization of Loading and Transport Equipment as well as Choice of Primary Crusher Location.- A Computer System for Evaluation of Contaminated Sites.- Design of a Decision Support System for Remediation Technology Selection.- Hazardous Waste Mangement in France and Decision Support.- Autonomous Watercraft for Exploration of Stagnant Waters.- Environment III, Health.- Power Generation in the Czech Republic and its Contribution to Air Pollution Prevention in Central Europe.- Transport and Diffusion Model for Air-Quality Planning.- Application of Low-Level Counting Techniques for the Investigation of the Impact of Uranium Mining as well as Remediation on the Environment.- Air Pollution, Legislation and Health.- Contactless Monitoring of Air Pollutants in Open Air by TEA CO2 DIAL.- Nasal and Laryngal Mucosa as an Important Target Area for Contact with Environmental Noxious Agents.- Skin Cancer in the West Bohemia.- Skin Damagedue to Ultraviolet Light.- Author Index.- Keyword Index.