7th UK CARE Annual General Meeting

Greenwich, 15 September 2007

UK Chinese Association of Resources and Environment

7th UK CARE AGM, Greenwich, CD-ROM Proceedings

1. Presentation

Welcome to 7th UK Chinese Association of Resources and Environment, Annual General Meeting (7th UK CARE AGM).

The UK Chinese Association of Resources and Environment (UK CARE), founded in 2000, is a UK based academic organisation aiming to provide a high-quality international technical and information forum between China and UK in the areas of resources and environment, sustainable development, air and water quality and renewable energy. It seeks to promote the communication, collaboration and consensus building among the Chinese and British research institutes and individuals for professional development and projects. More Detailed information can be found on the official website of UK CARE at http://www.care-uk.org.

As one of the key parts of the organisation’s remit, the Annual General Meeting aims to provide a platform where environmental professionals in the UK and China can present and exchange their research findings and outputs.

The themes of AGM 2007

From Research to Practice: Towards Sustainable Development in China

Relevant topics include, but not restricted to:

• Air/Noise pollution control
• Energy studies
• Clean product and technology, Waste management, Recycling
• Remediation ?Biotechnology, Climate change
• Risk assessment & Environmental management
• River basin management and ecology
• Environmental Analysis and Monitoring
• Maritime Environment and Solid Waste
• Sustainable development and the built environment

The conference program consists of 32 contributed papers, presented as oral session (about 27) and poster session (about 5). More than 70 UK based Chinese scholars and researchers attended this conference. And we are also delighted that Chongqing University Alumni Association in UK was established in 7th CARE AGM as a special programme. I hope this conference will become a golden opportunity to exchange ideas and to renew our friendship and an incubator for future progress of research and development of sustainability.

Professor KANG Jian
Chairman, Organizing Committee
of 7th CARE AGM,2007 Greenwich