leachate prognosis, natural attenuation, reactive barriers, Contaminated land, Contaminated land overview Contaminated land, funding Contaminated 
land, Remediation options, MNA Contaminated land, Remediation options, Permeable reactive barriers Contaminated land, Remediation options, Remediation 
options overview Contaminated land, Soil and groundwater processes, Modelling 
         

The programme 'Research for the Environment' (in German 'Forschung für die Umwelt' ) strives to initiate innovations in economy and society that contribute 
to guaranteeing a high quality of human life in an environment with a functional ecosystem.  
With its attempt to include the whole spectrum of possibilities for improving the environmental situation by innovative knowledge and technological innovations, 
the programme 'research for the environment' goes beyond the programme 'environmental research and environmental technologies' which ended in 1994. Its 
main objective is to include man with his ethical, social, economic and cultural goals in a more comprehensive way and not to limit itself to the rather static 
description of the environmental situation as a victim of human impact and to the development of post-closure environmental technologies. The environment 
as living space of man has moved into the centre of the analysis. To understand and treat coherent elements as if they were truly coherent offers the chance to 
design an environment capable of surviving in the future, characterized by sustainable development and preservation of resources.  
In order to better take into consideration man with his abilities and goals in the solution of environmental problems, the new programme 'research for the 
environment' has to include a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines in a more comprehensive way than practiced so far. Interdisciplinary work becomes 
a crucial promoting criterion.