Reclaiming the Land Rethinking Superfund Institutions, Methods and Practices /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Macey, Gregg P. (Editor), Cannon, Jonathan Z. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Subjects: Environment.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Environmental management.; Waste management.; Environmental economics.; Waste Management/Waste Technology.; Environmental Management.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Environmental Economics.

Nearly thirty years after creation of the most advanced and expensive hazardous waste cleanup infrastructure in the world, Reclaiming the Land provides a much-needed lens through which the Superfund program should be assessed and reshaped. Focusing on the lessons of adaptive management, it explores...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of the Superfund Program
• Adaptive Management in Superfund
• Adaptive Management
• Systems Analysis and Adaptive Learning for Portfolio Management of Superfund Sites
• A Cost-Benefit Model for Evaluating Remediation Alternatives at Superfund Sites Incorporating the Value of Ecosystem Services
• Institutional Controls at Brownfields
• Rethinking Community Involvement for Superfund Site Reuse
• Toxic Sites as Places of Culture and Memory
• CHAT
• Conclusion.