| Academic degree: | Dr. |  | | Last name: | Vegter | | First name: | Joop | | Responsible for: | INTERCOMP: biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics; contaminated land management; brownfield sites; urban soils; risk management | | Organization/Institute: | Vegter Advies | | Department: | | | Position: | | | Street, Number, POB: | Amsteldijk Zuid 167 | | Postal code, City: | 1189VM Amstelveen | | State: | | | Country: | The Netherlands | | Phone: | +31297582618 | | Fax: | +31297582618 | | E-mail address: | joopvegter@mac.com | | Url: | | | Curriculum vitae: | dr. J.J. Vegter
Vegter Advies
Amsteldijk Zuid 167
1189VM Amstelveen
NL
E-mail: joopvegter@mac.com
Joop Vegter holds a Ph.D. in Biology. From1978-1982 he has been an Assistant professor in Animal ecology at the Free University Amsterdam. In 1983 he took up a position at the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment as Policy Staff Member of the Soil and Groundwater Department. He has been involved in the development of general soil protection policies, soil protection research programming and the setting of soil quality guideline values. From 1988 till 2004 he held the position of general secretary of the Technical Soil Protection Committee (TCB). The TCB is an independent scientific committee based on the Dutch Soil protection act. The committee makes recommendations on the technical and scientific aspects of soil protection, including the protection of groundwater and sediments. The committee reviewed and made recommendations on al aspects of Dutch contaminated land policy, including risk assessment and the derivation and use of intervention values.
Joop Vegter has been involved in many international activities in the field of soil protection and contaminated land management. He was a member of the steering group of the EU concerted action CARACAS on contaminated land risk assessment and was scientific chairman of the EU concerted action CLARINET on contaminated land management. His main contribution to CLARINET was the development of Risk based land management concept as a “European state of the art”. Joop Vegter also chaired the Technical working group on soil contamination during the EU soil strategy discussions.
Joop Vegter is currently an independent consultant and secretary of COMMON FORUM, an international network of soil policy experts and advisors in the field of contaminated land.
Experience:
• Management of discussions involving policy and science
• Second opinion in complex contaminated land problems
• International contaminated land networking
Expertise:
• Risk management and risk assessment methodology
• Derivation of guideline values
• Relation between guideline values, decision making and policy
• Ecological risk assessment
| | Areas of interest: | | soils and sediments | | biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics | | contaminated land management | | brownfield sites | | contaminated sites, assessment | | urban soils | | risk management | | contaminated sediments | | |
| | Articles: | 7 JSS (2) 63 (2007), Urban Soils - An Emerging Problem?
6 JSS (4) 262-268 (2006), Subject Area ´Intercompartment´: The (Associate) Subject Editors: Challenges and relevant literature in JSS and ESPR (the presentation of the Editors is not complete yet and will be continued)
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