This volume contains 40 selected full-text contributions from the Sixth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, geoENV IV, held in Rhodes, Greece, October 25-26, 2006. The objective of the editors was to compile a set of papers from which the reader could perceive how geostatistics is applied within the environmental sciences. A few selected theoretical contributions are also included.

geoENV: Ten Years Later The environment has unquestionably become a key topic of focus and concern for today s society, encompassing themes that include sustainable development, c- mate change, reduction of biological diversity, and carbon emissions along with the need for new energy paradigms. These themes are no longer the exclusive - main of academic and scienti c exploration. They are now high-priority issues for governments and environmental agencies of all industrialized countries because of the tremendous effects on the industrialized and, to an even grater extent, dev- oping world....