BrownfieldsIII: Prevention, Assessment, Rehabilitation and Development of Brownfield Sites: No. 94 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845640411 ISBN 13: 9781845640415

Publisher: WIT Press, 2006

Synopsis

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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Synopsis

Papers from a July 2006 conference held in Estonia examine some of the problems facing the public and private sectors and the engineering and scientific communities in their efforts to re-use abandoned lands. In addition to scientific and engineering issues, the papers look at related financial, regulatory, and community issues. Papers are in secti

Edition details

• Publisher: WIT Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1845640411
• ISBN 13: 9781845640415
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Brebbia C. A., Mander U.