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This paper reports on the existing approaches, needs and priority issues related to the control theory and models and their applications to environmental risk assessments, as discussed in Working Group 1 during the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) onAir, Water and Soil Quality Modelling for Risk and Impact Assessment. These include themethods of forward and inverse modelling, methods using adjoint equations, perturbationtheory, and variational methods. Their applicability, advantages and shortcomings are underlined.

This paper reports on the ideas, needs and priority issues related to integrated modelling and applications, as discussed in working group 2 during the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Air, Water and Soil Quality Modelling for Risk and Impact Assessment. The discussion paper presents a multi-disciplinary view on the motivation for integrated modelling in the area of environmental pollution, its objectives, the state of the art and the relevance of the work that has been presented and discussed during the workshop. The paper concludes with a reflection on the challenges and future research needsfor integrated modelling.

The need of (i) more powerful computers, (ii) faster and more robust numerical methods and (iii) better utilization of the computer memory were considered in Working Group 3. Also different types of tasks, which require increased computer power for environmental risk and impact assessment, were considered during the discussion. The major conclusions are presented in this paper.