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International Symposium on Geoenvironmental Engineering ISGE2009 |
A Welcome message |
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Issues associated with Environmental Geotechnics continue to be a major preoccupation for governments, public and private organizations and the general community wordwide. The Chinese Government has been putting great effort on environmental issues including treatment of wastewater, sanitary disposal of solid waste, prevention of groundwater contamination etc. China has much to share on the opportunities, challenges and responsibilities for environmental geotechnics with other countries.
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Zhejiang University (SSGeo@ZJU), the Chinese Institution of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (CISMGE) and the Chinese Chapter of International Geosynthetics Society (CCIGS) are pleased to host the International Symposium on Geoenvironmental Engineering on Sep. 8-10, 2009 in Hangzhou, China, under the auspices of ISSMGE.
The general theme of this symposium is “Reclamation of the Past and Toward a Sustainable Geoenvironment”. The symposium will feature the 2009 Zhejiang University Zeng Guo-Xi Lecture delivered by Prof. Pedro Seco e Pinto (President ISSMGE) and Prof. R. Kerry Rowe (Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the 45th Rankine Lecturer (2005) by the British Geotechnical Society) as well as a series of invited lectures covering various topics of current interest.
Welcome to join us in Hangzhou this September!
Yunmin CHEN Chairman, Organizing Committee of ISGE2009 Director, MOE Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental Engineering (SSGeo@ZJU) |
