Climate Change, Pollutant Linkage and Brownfield Regeneration

2015

s: Rizzo, E., Bardos, P., Pizzol, L., Critto, A., Giubilato, E., Marcomini, A., 2015. Comparison of international approaches to sustainable remediation. Accepted as platform presentation at AquaConSoil 2015, 9 – 12 June 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark. Alexandrescu, F., Rizzo, E., Pizzol, L., Critto, A., 2015. Building a network-based expert-stakeholder framework for sustainable remediation”. Accepted as platform presentation at AquaConSoil 2015, 9 – 12 June 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark. Rizzo, E., Pizzol, L., Giubilato, E., Pesce, M., Zabeo, A., Critto, A., Marcomini, A., 2014. Timbre Information System for the provision of tailored and customized information on brownfield regeneration according to users’ requirements. Accepted as platform presentation at CABERNET 2014: Tailored & Sustainable Redevelopment towards Zero Brownfields, 14 – 16 October 2014, Frankfurt, Germany. Rizzo, E., Pizzol, L., Giubilato, E., Critto, A., Marcomini, A., 2014. Timbre Information System for Brownfield Regener...

Abstract The remediation and reuse of industrial brownfields sites are important opportunities for the improvement of urban quality and people life. The aim of this paper is to investigate people's attitudes and knowledge towards remediation and reuse of these sites. In order to understand people's opinions we have administered a questionnaire to 400 residents in the surroundings of Venice.

Remediation Journal, 2018

The lead article in this issue of Remediation, titled "Resilient Remediation: Addressing Extreme Weather and Climate Change, Creating Community Value" (Maco et al., 2018), addresses a critical issue facing the remediation industry-considering the effects of changing weather patterns in the design, optimization, and operation of remediation systems. The effect of climate change on remediation programs can take many forms, including warmer, wetter, or dryer weather affecting cover systems, reduced groundwater depths, and catastrophic weather events, such as floods, tornadoes, or hurricanes, damaging remediation systems. However, integrating climate change risks into remediation programs poses issues to the remediation community as most remediation professionals do not have the training and experience to evaluate climate risks, identify the associated vulnerabilities to contaminated sites, and design weather-resilient remediation systems.

Ecological Economics, 2002

In the context of sustainable city planning, we observe in recent years an increasing policy interest in urban environmental quality management in relation to land use. The potential for sustainable land use solutions in urban areas is often severely hampered by the existence of unacceptably high levels of soil pollution. The present paper aims to identify the critical success factors for an effective clean-up policy for these areas. After a review of issues, backgrounds and prospects, the paper attempts to offer a qualitative impact assessment model which encapsulates an expert system for brownfield development in relation to clean-up targets for polluted sites. Next, a case study approach to various soil pollution cases in The Netherlands is carried out to test the feasibility of the above-mentioned analytical framework.

Journal of Coastal Research, 2018

The regeneration of former industrial complexes located in waterfronts represents an important challenge for several metropolitan areas worldwide. The effects of climate change combined with the fact that some brownfields are located in land-water interface areas make it necessary to evaluate this factor, particularly regarding adaptation to sea level rise (SLR). Focusing on the case of the Water City Project (Almada, Portugal), this article analyzes and discusses the measures proposed in order to strengthen the intervention area's resilience to SLR. It was possible to understand that the project: (i) was conceived to take into account the effects of SLR in the long-term; (ii) incorporates specific adaptation measures (mainly regulatory measures); (iii) combines accommodation and protection as response options to SLR.

Over 200 years of industrialisation have caused soil contamination to be widespread in Europe. Decision makers, scientists, businesses and individual citizens generally accept and understand the impacts of air and water pollution on human health and environment, but the impacts of soil contamination have a much lower profile. Soil contamination is very often perceived as a burden for policy makers and public administration and as a potential threat for citizens’ health and environment. From the 1980s until today Europe has developed numerous laws to reduce and remediate the adverse effects of soil pollution. Each country has gathered very valuable information and published their own work in the national language (normally not accessible and not known by other countries in Europe), on how to manage contaminated sites that originated from industrial settlements, urbanization or by accidents. This document is published at the initiative of the Eionet National Reference Centres for Soil, which established in 2015 an ad-hoc working group on contaminated sites and brownfields in Europe.The objective was to collect cases and successful stories of remediated sites and brownfields, harmonise and facilitate exchanges of information on contaminated soils and soil remediation between the Eionet contributing countries. These stories have been compiled in the present report as a publication to the International Year of Soil 2015. It aims to contribute to a better understanding of the remediation of contaminated sites and brownfields rehabilitation which is essential for sustainable land use management and to share best practices and new techniques in soil remediation and management of contaminated sites, meanwhile raising awareness of the enormous efforts needed to succeed. This document presents examples of success stories of remediation of contaminated soils in various contexts and different European countries. It is not meant to provide an exhaustive inventory of remediated sites in all countries. Thirteen countries comprising 19 European regions present a total of 29 cases which illustrate how soil and brownfields remediation along with sustainable land management have become essential for reversing the trend of soil degradation and ensuring the provision of ecosystem services by soil. The cases show progress in research and innovative technologies of soil remediation, new outstanding approaches to soil remediation management, beneficial integration of stakeholders in decision-making and fruitful progress in raising public awareness and citizen science.These success stories have also achieved the restoration, safeguarding and longterm ensurance of some of the most widely recognized functions of soils, such as support for water regulation and purification, provision of new habitat for organisms, food, fibre and fuel, promotion of cultural and recreation areas and foundation for human infrastructure.

Environmental Management, 2007

Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or underused sites whose reuse necessitates some sort of intervention. These sites are largely urban and are frequently contaminated. Brownfield management options can be associated with three types of environmental consequences: those resulting from changes in the site's environmental quality (primary impacts); those resulting from the actual intervention stage (secondary impacts); and, if the vocation of the site changes, those resulting from effects on regional land use (tertiary impacts). Different stakeholders and decision-making contexts will place a different importance on each of these types of impacts. This article proposes a framework for comparing brownfield management options in regard to these three types of environmental impacts and for interpreting these results from different perspectives. The assessment framework is based on consequential life cycle assessment (LCA), which is shown to provide environmental information on the three types of impacts. The results for a case study are presented, where a ''rehabilitation'' option allowing residential redevelopment is compared to an ''exposure minimization'' option not resulting in the site being reused. Calculated primary and tertiary impacts are favorable to the rehabilitation option, whereas secondary impacts are favorable to the exposure minimization option. A ternary diagram presents the favorable option for different stereotypical perspectives. Tertiary impacts are much greater than secondary impacts, and consequently all perspectives that consider tertiary impacts favor rehabilitation. The perspective that considers primary and secondary impacts receives conflicting information. The ternary diagram, showing results for all perspectives, could possibly be useful for consensus-building among stakeholders.

The thesis is discussing the concepts of brownfields regeneration as an approach to achieve sustainable urban development. The research deals with different layers of complexity of sustainable urban regeneration as a process, and brownfields as sites. It analyzes some case studies, moreover it attempts to build on existing worldwide experience of brownfields regeneration strategies, and investigate the principles of sustainable urban planning strategy. The research main goal is to suggest a conceptual framework for dealing with the process of redeveloping brownfields in the Egyptian context, especially in Greater Cairo cities. The research addresses how brownfields regeneration could be considered as a main approach to achieve more sustainable strategic development in G.C.R. This thesis consists of six chapters. Starting with an introductory chapter, followed by the theoretical part, which consists of two chapters. It presents a theoretical review that discusses different concepts of brownfields sustainable regeneration. In addition, it reviews the complexity of brownfields sustainable regeneration and related issues in complex urban systems .It investigates the impact of brownfields regeneration on urban environment, the challenges and driving forces that could affect the process of brownfields regeneration. The analytical part including (chapter four and five) presents different examples of practices in different countries, and cities, recognized benefits, challenges Many cases for a number of projects that have been recognized as examples of sustainable brownfield regeneration. Moreover, it investigates the current conditions of brownfields in Greater Cairo contexts and relevant developmental approaches. Finally, the research proposes a suggested conceptual framework in which brownfields could be integrated strategically in urban development goals. The research ends with conclusions and recommendations related to brownfields regeneration, that can offer the opportunity to promote sustainable, feasible projects that revitalize Egyptian cities.

This paper focuses on brownfields remediation and reuse strategies as opportunities to favour environmental protection, improvement of economic and social conditions and enhancement of human health and safety. The reuse of brownfield sites can also promote and encourage urban sustainable development practices. Land management and soil protection are common priorities for all the modern Governments and the experience achieved by Western countries in this field may be of some utility for a sustainable urban regeneration policy in China. Finally, an overview of the main costs and benefits of brownfield redevelopment and cleanup projects and a brief introduction to the issue related to the economic valuation methodology used to quantify them will be investigated and discussed.

Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, 2007

Environmental Practice

Brownfields remediation and redevelopment continues to be an important issue for policy makers and planners seeking to unlock its many socio-economic and environmental benefits. While technical approaches to assessment and remediation have become rather standardized and governments have largely embraced voluntary programs to oversee their application, the degree of regulatory oversight continues to differ among jurisdictions. This article examines the scale and character of remediation activity in Ontario, Canada over the last decade using records submitted by qualified persons from the private sector. It finds that Ontario's approach has been quite successful in scale and character in stronger urban real estate markets despite most matters related to cleanup and reuse escaping the direct oversight of provincial regulators. The province's less-interventionist approach may need some review to address the nature of cleanup techniques being applied and the recent slowdown in cleanup and reuse activity, especially given the growing push toward regional growth management and more effective use of brownfield land resources in both larger urban areas, and smaller ones where greenfields are plentiful and brownfields are less competitive.

Dealing with Contaminated Sites, 2010

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2014

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