Urban Soil Management Strategy (URBAN SMS)

Urban Soil Management Strategy (URBAN SMS) project joined the experience, expertise and efforts of eleven partners (research institutions and municipal authorities) from seven Central European countries. This three year project was launched in October 2008 under the CENTRAL EUROPE program and will be completed in February 2012. The main goal of URBAN SMS is to define, design and develop useful soil management strategies, applicable to urban planning with secondary goal to educate and raise the awareness among the responsible decision makers. This project aims to encourage the dialog between the professional audiences stressing the importance and value of soil resource in the urban and suburban environments. Such dialogue will contribute to sustainable management of land as a basic natural resource.

  • Title Original : Urban Soil Management Strategy (URBAN SMS)
  • Website : http://www.urban-sms.eu/en/
  • Notes : Project Management:
    City of Stuttgart, Department for Environmental Protection
    Gaisburgstraße 4, D-70182 Stuttgart, Germany
    Hermann Josef Kirchholtes and Michael Schweiker
  • Project start : 2008
  • Project end : 2012
  • Contact Person : See notes
  • Funding Agency : INTERREG Central Europe
  • Project Partners : See project structure
  • Project structure : City of Stuttgart, Department for Environmental Protection (Lead Partner), Germany
    City of Vienna, Department for Environmental Protection, Austria
    Umweltbundesamt, Environment Agency Austria, Vienna, Austria
    City of Milan, Executive Plans and Programs for Buildings Department ? Office for Reclamation, Italy
    University of Torino, Department of Valorization and Protection of Agroforestry Resources, Italy
    City of Celje, Slovenia Agricultural Institute of Slovenia,
    Centre for Soil and Environment Research, Ljubljana,
    Slovenia Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation, Pulawy, Poland
    Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
    Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
    District Authority of Stuttgart, Unit for Water and Soil, Germany
  • Location : Germany, Stuttgart, lat : 48.775418100000000000 - lng : 9.181758800000011000