Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Contents
20.1 Introduction
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20.2 Concepts
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20.2.1 Sustainability
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20.2.2 Risk Management
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20.2.3 Sustainable Remediation
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20.2.4 Frameworks
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20.2.5 International Initiatives in Sustainable Remediation
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20.2.6 Communicating Sustainability and Risk Management
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20.3 Using Sustainability Appraisal in Remediation Option Appraisal
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20.3.1 The Scope of Sustainability Appraisal as a Decision Support
Process in Projects
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20.3.2 Using Sustainability for Technology Promotion and for Corporate
Reporting
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20.3.3 Frameworks and Boundaries
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20.3.4 Techniques and Tools and Their Applicability
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20.4 Applied Sustainable Remediation
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20.5 Case Studies
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20.5.1 Soil Redevelopment in the Volgermeerpolder, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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20.5.2 Wind Powered Passive Aeration Remediation Systems
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20.5.3 Sustainable Reuse of Contaminated Sediments
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20.5.4 The Use of the REC Method to Select a Remediation Strategy
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20.5.5 “Sanergy” as a Sustainable Synergy of Remediation
and Groundwater Energy
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20.6 The Future Perspective of Sustainable Management of Contaminated Sites
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20.6.1 A New Basis for Decision Making
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20.6.2 Work in Progress
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20.6.3 Technological Innovation by Combining State
of the Art Techniques
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20.6.4 Synergies: Go with the Flow
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References
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20.1 Introduction
Sustainable development as a concept was defined in the 1987 “Brundtland Report”
by the World Commission on Environment and Development as “development that
meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future gener-
ations to meet their own needs” (Brundtland
1987
). This report was an important
step on a continuing international debate on sustainable development summarised
in Fig.
20.1
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It has long been assumed that contaminated land management was by its nature
intrinsically sustainable because, for example, it controlled risks from contaminants
and facilitated the re-use of Brownfield land so reducing greenfield development
pressure. However, over the past decade it has increasingly been realised that this
simple assumption may not always be true. For example, increasing concerns about
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