
Brownfields
Prevention, Assessment, Rehabilitation and Development of Brownfield Sites
WIT Press
Published on 28. June 2006
Book
Hardback
350 pages
978-1-84564-041-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book focuses on the problems facing the public and private sectors and the engineering and scientific communities in terms of the decrease of available new land for development purposes. Given the economic and social benefits of brownfields redevelopment, there is a need for guidance on processes that ensure the acceptability and therefore viability of such redevelopment. The preparation of the guidance requires further research as well as the sharing of information, lessons and experience among experts in this field. Featuring papers from the Third International Conference on Prevention, Assessment, Rehabilitation and Development of Brownfield Sites, the text will be vital to practitioners and businessmen in industry and commerce as well as those in research organisations interested in the problems facing the prevention, assessment, rehabilitation and development of brownfields.The papers published in the book are grouped into the following sections: Development issues; Environmental assessment; Risk assessment and management; Cleanup methodologies; Case studies; Community and public involvement; Lessons from the field; Modelling and assessment; Monitoring of contaminated sites.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84564-041-5 (9781845640415)
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Content
Section 1: Development issues Re-using urban industrial areas: the case of 's Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands; Recycling brownfields? The influence of on site contamination on home buyers; Brownfield redevelopment by the private sector: market driven decision making Section 2: Environmental assessment Environmental accounting of a waste management system: outcomes from the emergy analysis; What constitutes success in brownfield redevelopment? A review; Evaluating brownfield redevelopment projects: a review of existing sustainability indicator tools and their adoption by the UK development industry Section 3: Risk assessment and management "ARA-CoSSSLs" risk analysis approach (on a computer worksheet basis) for contaminated sites: implementation and case study application; Comparing metal uptake by vegetation under different experimental conditions Section 4: Cleanup methodologies Black alder as a promising deciduous species for the reclaiming of oil shale mining areas; The effect of composts on the leaching of metals from contaminated soils; Effective gas-phase diffusion coefficient in soils Section 5: Case studies Remediation and development of a former military manufacturing and test site in Florida USA; Brownfield sites turned green: realising sustainability in urban revival; Toward the integration of brownfield rehabilitation and planning methodologies: case study of Keihin Industrial Area, Tokyo, Japan; From contaminated site to premier urban greenspace: investigating the success of Thames Barrier Park, London; Learning from experience: creating sustainable urban greenspaces from brownfield sites Section 6: Community and public involvement Brownfields - public involvement; Brownfields and urban design: learning from Atlantic Station Section 7: Lessons from the field Defence heritage moves on to civilian futures; Remediation of former military sites Section 8: Modelling and assessment Green economics as a tool for prioritising brownfield rehabilitation in Greece; A model for redeveloping complex, highly contaminated sites - the Industri-plex Site in Woburn, Massachusetts Section 9: Monitoring of contaminated sites Remote sensing detection techniques for brownfield identification and monitoring by GIS tools; Evaluation for estimating partition coefficients of alcohol tracer partitioning between benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) compounds and water