TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing decision support tools for the selection of "gentle" remediation approaches
AU - Onwubuya, Kene
AU - Cundy, Andrew
AU - Puschenreiter, Markus
AU - Kumpiene, Jurate
AU - Bone, Brian
AU - Greaves, Jon
AU - Teasdale, Phillip
AU - Mench, Michel
AU - Tlustos, Pavel
AU - Mikhalovsky, Sergey
AU - Waite, Steve
AU - Friesl-Hanl, Wolfgang
AU - Marschner, Bernd
AU - Müller, Ingo
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the support of the European Commission FP6 ERANET programme SNOWMAN for project funding. SNOWMAN is one amongst more than 70 ERA-Nets (European Research Area—Networks) funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. Two anonymous reviewers are thanked for their constructive and insightful comments. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views or policy of their employers.
Copyright:
Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - A range of tools have been proposed to support decision making in contaminated land remediation. From a European perspective it is clear, however, that there are considerable national differences in the decision support process, and more generally in the extent to which this process supports the selection of less invasive, alternative remediation options such as phytoremediation, in situ immobilisation etc. (referred to here as "gentle" remediation technologies). In this paper we present results from the recently completed European Union ERANET SNOWMAN project SUMATECS (Sustainable Management of Trace Element Contaminated Sites), and critically review available decision support tools in terms of their fitness for purpose for the application of gentle remediation technologies. Stakeholder feedback indicates a lack of knowledge amongst stakeholders of currently available decision support tools. We propose that decision support which focuses on gentle remediation is more strongly incorporated into existing, well-established (national) decision support tools / decision-frameworks, to promote more widespread use and uptake.
AB - A range of tools have been proposed to support decision making in contaminated land remediation. From a European perspective it is clear, however, that there are considerable national differences in the decision support process, and more generally in the extent to which this process supports the selection of less invasive, alternative remediation options such as phytoremediation, in situ immobilisation etc. (referred to here as "gentle" remediation technologies). In this paper we present results from the recently completed European Union ERANET SNOWMAN project SUMATECS (Sustainable Management of Trace Element Contaminated Sites), and critically review available decision support tools in terms of their fitness for purpose for the application of gentle remediation technologies. Stakeholder feedback indicates a lack of knowledge amongst stakeholders of currently available decision support tools. We propose that decision support which focuses on gentle remediation is more strongly incorporated into existing, well-established (national) decision support tools / decision-frameworks, to promote more widespread use and uptake.
KW - Contaminated land
KW - Decision support tools
KW - Gentle remediation
KW - Immobilisation
KW - Land remediation
KW - Phytoremediation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.08.017
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.08.017
M3 - Article
C2 - 19773018
AN - SCOPUS:70350542591
VL - 407
SP - 6132
EP - 6142
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
SN - 0048-9697
IS - 24
ER -