Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration Liveable Places from Problem Spaces

, by Dixon, Tim; Raco, Mike; Catney, Philip; Lerner, David N.

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ISBN: 9781405144032 | 1405144033
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Copyright: 10/22/2007

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This book assesses the effectiveness of different types of regeneration policy by identifying best practice. It also examines ways in which science and social science research disciplines can be brought together to help solve brownfield regeneration issues.

Notes on the Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Foreword	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Background	p. 3
Aims and objectives	p. 5
Structure of the book	p. 6
Researching Sustainability: The Possibilities and Limitations of Cross-Cutting Research in the Urban Environment	p. 9
Introduction	p. 9
Intellectual disciplines, interdisciplinarity and the construction of knowledge	p. 10
The rise and rise of the sustainability agenda	p. 19
The EPSRC's Sustainable Urban Environments programme and the emergence of the SUBR:IM consortium	p. 22
Conclusions: SUBR:IM and new ways of working	p. 28
Regeneration	p. 33
Democracy, Trust and Risk Related to Contaminated Sites in the UK	p. 35
Introduction	p. 35
Contaminated land in the UK: context and policy	p. 36
Democracy, trust and risk in environmental governance	p. 41
Case studies	p. 49
Conclusions	p. 62
Actor Networks: The Brownfield Merry-Go-Round	p. 67
Introduction	p. 67
Actors and their roles	p. 70
Networks and their construction	p. 74
Network processes in brownfield regeneration	p. 77
Conclusions	p. 85
Heroes or Villains? The Role of the UK Property Development Industry in Sustainable Urban Brownfield Regeneration	p. 89
Introduction	p. 89
The nature and challenge of brownfield development	p. 90
The role of the UK property development industry in brownfield regeneration	p. 93
Survey and interview findings	p. 94
Learning from practice: Thames Gateway and Greater Manchester	p. 98
Towards best practice?	p. 102
A checklist for developers	p. 108
Conclusions	p. 109
Acknowledgements	p. 111
Appendix 1 National developer interviewees and questionnaire sample	p. 111
Appendix 2 Details of case study interviews	p. 114
Delivering Brownfield Regeneration: Sustainable Community-Building in London and Manchester	p. 119
Introduction	p. 119
Building for the future: visions, practices and the delivery of sustainable urban regeneration	p. 120
Flagship urban brownfield regeneration in the UK: the redevelopment of Salford Quays and Paddington Basin	p. 123
Conclusions: lessons for urban development policy	p. 137
Remediation	p. 141
Greening Brownfield Land	p. 143
Introduction	p. 143
Background and context	p. 143
A sustainable process for greenspace	p. 150
Contamination	p. 154
Sustainable greenspace	p. 166
The future of greenspace on brownfield land	p. 170
Conclusions	p. 171
Novel Special-purpose Composts for Sustainable Remediation	p. 177
Introduction	p. 177
Materials characterisation	p. 178
Experimental design	p. 182
Heavy metals containment in soils	p. 183
Biomass	p. 190
Enhanced compost	p. 193
Magnetic resonance imaging	p. 195
Conclusions	p. 198
Robust Sustainable Technical Solutions	p. 203
Introduction	p. 203
Sustainability assessment of currently available remediation technologies in the UK	p. 204
Sustainability improvements to remediation techniques	p. 223
Conclusions	p. 232
'The Creature Lurks Within?' Restoring Acid Tar Lagoons	p. 237
Introduction	p. 237
Acid tar lagoons: a technical introduction	p. 238
Regulating risk on an acid tar lagoon	p. 243
Lesson-drawing from Germany: an appraisal of the state of the art in remediation	p. 252
Conclusions	p. 260
Joined-Up Solutions	p. 263
Climate Change, Pollutant Linkage and Brownfield Regeneration	p. 265
Introduction	p. 265
Evidence of impacts of climate change on contaminated land systems	p. 266
Modelling potential impacts of climate change and the creation of greenspace on contaminated land	p. 280
Climate change mitigation and adaptation	p. 292
Technical adaptation and risk management strategies	p. 294
Stakeholder adaptation key issues and findings	p. 303
Conclusions	p. 310
Acknowledgments	p. 311
Evaluating the Sustainability of Brownfield Redevelopment Projects	p. 315
Introduction	p. 315
Sustainability evaluation in brownfield projects	p. 316
The Redevelopment Assessment Framework	p. 320
Conclusions	p. 345
Appendix	p. 346
Is Brown the New Green?	p. 352
Introduction	p. 352
Sustainable brownfield regeneration	p. 352
Sustainability in action	p. 358
Constructing cross-disciplinary research: lessons from the SUBR:IM experience	p. 366
Conclusions	p. 369
Index	p. 373
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