Environmental Engineering Reference
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Chapter 24
A Stakeholder's Perspective on Contaminated
Land Management
Lida Schelwald-Van der Kley, Johan de Fraye, Robert Pentel, Lucia Buve,
Roger Jacquet, Hans L.A. Slenders, Ian Heasman, Steve Wallace,
and Markus Ackermann
Abstract NICOLE, the Network for the management of Industrially Contaminated
Land in Europe is a leading forum on this matter in Europe, promoting co-operation
between industry, academia and service providers. NICOLE's goal is to enable
European industry to identify, assess and manage industrially contaminated land
efficiently, cost effectively and within a framework of sustainability. This chap-
ter provides an introduction to NICOLE's philosophy and addresses a number
of topics that are relevant to NICOLE's industrial members throughout the EU.
Topics range from consideration about consistency in legislation to innovative,
risk-based and sustainable approaches for the management of operational sites,
megasites and Brownfields. The chapter outlines the existing concerns and con-
straints that may hinder cost-effective contaminated land management, proposes
solutions and provides examples of promising and proven methods or best practice.
NICOLE's industrial members have developed and put into practice a range of tech-
niques and methods to reduce, alleviate and prevent contamination of soil, surface
water and groundwater. A greater knowledge and understanding of the forms and
nature of contamination has allowed the refinement and improvement of remedia-
tion approaches used. NICOLE and its members advocate the view that remediation
should be sustainable, i.e. that there be an acceptable balance between the effects of
undertaking remediation activities and the benefits the same activities will deliver,
in terms of environmental, economic and social indicators.
The opinions expressed in this chapter do not necessarily reflect the view of all individual members
or organisations within NICOLE, but are generally supported by most of NICOLE's industrial
members.
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