Federal Soil Association
| Federal Soil Association (BVB) |
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|---|---|
| legal form | non-profit registered association |
| founding | June 28, 1995 |
| founder | German Soil Science Society, among others |
| Seat | Berlin |
| purpose | Soil protection , soil protection law |
| Chair | Berndt-Michael Wilke |
| Members | approx. 600 (as of 2007) |
| Website | www.bvboden.de |
The Federal Soil Association (BVB) is a soil science specialist association founded in Germany in 1995 , which mainly deals with questions of applied soil protection and soil protection law. BVB is a non-profit association in the legal sense , has its headquarters in Berlin and around 600 members (as of 2015). The BVB office is currently in Bad Essen (as of 2015).
As a specialist interest group , the association has the particular goal of promoting scientific findings from a. To make it manageable for engineering and official practice, to make the current pedological knowledge known at the different decision-making levels (EU, federal government, states, municipalities) and to promote the application and actual implementation in soil protection enforcement on site. BVB publishes the specialist journal Soil Protection and various other publications, which are distributed in specialist circles beyond its members. a. in the development of legal provisions and regulations is of major importance for soil protection in Germany, for example in the area of contaminated sites . In addition, he is publicly committed to education in the area of “ Soils and Soil Protection” as well as within the association for a broad exchange and increased cooperation between specialist colleagues at various levels of work (“scientists” and “practitioners”).
Founding history
The establishment of the BVB goes back to the 1993 decision of the German Soil Science Society (DBG) to maintain its focus on purely scientific aspects of soil science and not - as many, especially younger members - demanded, the "requirements of authorities, enforcement and Practice ”. The DBG, as a scientific society founded in 1926, actively supported the establishment of an independent association for these matters. In particular, its then President Herbert Kuntze was heavily involved in the preparations, but died a few months before it was founded. The Federal Soil Association has been structurally and personally linked to the DBG ever since.
With the founding assembly of the Federal Soil Association, which took place on June 28, 1995 at the Federal Environment Agency in Berlin, a gap in the German association landscape was filled, because before there was no nationwide soil protection organization.
The Federal Soil Association is a member of the German Nature Conservation Ring .
Association structure
goals and tasks
The Federal Soil Association represents professional, technical-scientific and legal issues relating to soil as an environmental medium . According to its statutes, its central tasks include public relations (e.g. through publications and events), professional training and further education measures , cooperation with authorities, other associations, companies and scientific and technical institutions as well as the establishment and standardization of criteria for Soil -related and geo-ecological investigations of the soil to assess measures in the areas of environmental protection and landscape management . In addition, the association's tasks include collaboration and the development of relevant regulations , standards and recommendations for action (guidelines) for soil-related quality assurance and the promotion of research, development and demonstration projects.
Members
BVB represents a good 600 members, including around 50 companies. Around half of the association's members are employed and self-employed soil specialists, as well as employees of ministries, state institutions and enforcement authorities who are mainly involved in soil protection, as well as university members and in engineering offices or e.g. B. Law Firms Operators. In terms of their training, geologists , geographers , biologists , ecologists , chemists , agar engineers , forest scientists , landscape planners and lawyers are particularly represented alongside original soil scientists . With the exception of a few administration specialists, almost all of them have completed a scientific training, which is why BVB and DBG are regarded as a “scientific association”.
Board
The presidium forms the board of directors of BVB and manages the association. It consists of a president, three vice-presidents, a delegate from the German Soil Science Society and a secretary.
President of BVB:
- until 2002: Reinhard F. Hüttl (including professor for soil protection and recultivation at the TU Cottbus, scientific director of the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam )
- until 2008: Hubert Wiggering (former Secretary General of the Advisory Council for Environmental Issues (SRU), Director of ZALF , Professor of Geoecology at the University of Potsdam)
- until 2014: Gabriele Broll (Professor of Geoecology and Soil Research and Head of Institute at the University of Osnabrück, research focus: agroecology and soil research)
- from 2015 Berndt-Michael Wilke (Technical University of Berlin, head of the former FG Waste pollution of the landscape at the Institute of Ecology - now retired)
activities
Association groups
Most of BVB's activities can be assigned to the following areas. There are currently three internal specialist groups with their own chairmen and specialist committees:
- Soil-related legal areas
- Land use and soil protection
- Profession, education and public relations
For the members there are also four regional groups in Germany (North, East, South, West) across federal states. a. organize your own meetings, workshops and excursions.
Publications and conferences
The main publication of the BVB has been the independent association and specialist journal Soil Protection , which has been published regularly since 1996 and which also publishes information from the Federal / State Working Group on Soil Protection (LABO) and the Federal / State Committee on Soil Research (BLA-GEO) ( both working bodies of the Environment Ministers ' Conference (UMK) and the Economic Ministers' Conference).
In addition, the BVB publishes separate series of publications such as the BVB leaflets , the BVB information and the BVB materials , which have become an integral part of the pedological specialist literature. The recommendations for action to avert danger in the case of soil erosion appeared as information sheets ; the materials include i.a. a. the volume of soil protection and land use planning and the multilingual dictionary of soil sciences .
Other publications include conference reports and, in particular, technical statements on laws , ordinances, guidelines or decrees, which u. a. within the framework of the environmental association participation . As a recognized scientific professional association, BVB is in close contact with the relevant specialist authorities and is usually involved in an advisory capacity in advance of official and political decision-making.
In 2000, in cooperation with the Bonn aid infodienst, BVB had the almost half-hour film The Skin of the Earth - About the Soil We Live On (DVD, ISBN 978-3-8308-0294-5 ). The educational film , available in German and English , is mainly used in schools but also in adult education.
The Federal Soil Association is responsible for the Bodenwelten web portal, which has existed since 2001 and was completely modernized in 2015 on the occasion of the International Soil Year . The portal was funded by the Federal Environment Ministry and offers comprehensive information on the subject of soil, suggestions for schools and approaches to soil protection.
The annual conferences are geared to current topics of soil protection:
- 2008 Müncheberg - "Global Change - Challenges for Preventive Soil Protection" - About the value of soils / climate change and soils / consequences of biomass use for soils / amendments to current soil protection regulations
- 2010 Gelsenkirchen - "Soil Management in Urban Areas" - Transfer of scientific results into practice / communication of soil protection in public
- 2012 Augsburg - "Soil protection between the chairs" - Soil protection between nature protection and land use / Soil science building supervision
- 2014 Halle - "Soil as a protected asset in nature conservation" - Soil and nature conservation / soil protection and energy transition
- 2016 Hamburg
Bottom of the year
Together with the German Soil Science Society, BVB has been choosing the “ Soil of the Year ” every year since 2004 . The association accompanies the annual selection with information from the public and actions.
Action platform soil protection
In 2007, BVB founded the “Soil Protection Action Platform” (ABo) together with the German Soil Science Society and the Engineering Association for Altlasten (ITVA). This bundles the specialist competence in Germany in the areas of soil use, soil protection and remediation and sees itself as a discussion and information platform for society and politics. It serves as a public and lobby organization for soil protection, which henceforth "speaks with one voice" and can therefore be better perceived than the statements of the individual organizations.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.bvboden.de - BVB celebrated its 10th anniversary on June 20, 2005. ( Memento from August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Soil Protection Action Platform (ABo). Declaration of incorporation. www.itv-altlasten.de (PDF; 56 kB)
- ↑ a b c Bundesverband Boden eV Practical soil protection with competence. bvboden.de, June 2007 . (PDF)
- ↑ a b Claus Gerhard Bannick: Five years BVB - an initial assessment. In: Soil Protection. Issue 1/2000. Erich-Schmidt-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISSN 1432-170X , p. 1.
- ↑ Bundesverband Soil: Mutual memberships with the German Soil Science Society (DBG) and the Institute of Professional Soil Scientists (IPSS) (UK) agreed. In: Soil Protection. No. 2/1997. Erich-Schmidt-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISSN 1432-170X , p. 65.
- ↑ www.bodennetzwerk.de - Invitation to the festival colloquium (on June 20, 2005). ( Memento from February 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 14 kB)
- ↑ a b c Articles of Association. April 1, 2015 . (PDF)
- ↑ Prof. Gabriele Broll. University of Osnabrück
- ↑ Prof. Berndt-Michael Wilke. Federal Soil Association
- ↑ Specialist groups in BV Boden.
- ↑ Federal Soil Association: Soil Protection. Soil conservation, use and restoration. Body of the BVB. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin. from 1996. ISSN 1432-170X
- ↑ Federal / State Working Group on Soil Protection.
- ^ Federal / State Committee Soil Research.
- ↑ Statements and positions. BV floor
- ↑ www.bvboden.de - The film “The Skin of the Earth” is available on DVD. ( Memento from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bodenwelten web portal.
- ↑ Platform for Action Soil Protection (ABo) - an alliance of the German Soil Science Society (DBG), the Engineering Technology Association of contaminated sites (ITVA) and the Federation bottom (BVB).