The following topics are tentatively proposed:
Geoenvironmental risk assessment, management and sustainability
· Sustainability
· Risk-based site evaluation and management
· Case histories and regional experiences
Geotechnical recycling and reuse of waste materials
· Construction and demolition wastes
· Coal combustion residues
· Dredged sediments
· Other solid wastes
Transport, persistence and fate of pollutants
· Advection
· Diffusion
· Adsorption
· Degradation and attenuation
· Emerging contaminants
Contaminated land and remediation technology
· Site investigation
· In-situ remediation
· Off site remediation
· New remediation technologies
Engineering barriers
· Covers
· Liners
· Vertical barriers
Landfills of solid wastes
· Waste characterization and properties
· Stability
· Deformation
· Greenhouse gas and odor reduction
Application of geosynthetics in geo-environmental engineering
· Geotextiles and geocomposites
· Geomembranes
· Geosynthetic clay liners
· Other geosynthetics
Geoenvironmental aspect in energy geotechnology
· Nuclear waste
· CO2 sequestration
· Shallow and deep geothermal
· Methane hydrates
· Underground storage facilities
Tailings and mine wastes
· Tailing ponds
· Waste dumps
· Acid mine drainage
· Heap leach pads
Biogeotechnical engineering
· Biomediation
· Bioremediation
· Phytostabilization and phytoremediation
Forensic environmental geotechnics
· Failure case studies