title: Comparison of international approaches to sustainable remediation.
abstract: Since mid-to-late 2000s growing interest for sustainable remediation has emerged in initiatives from several international and national organisations as well as other initiatives from networks and forums. This reflects a realisation that risk-management activities can about bring environmental, social, and economic impacts (positive or negative) in addition to achieving risk-based remediation goals. These ideas have begun to develop as a new discipline of "sustainable remediation". The various initiatives have now published a number of frameworks, standards, white papers, road maps and operative guidelines. The similarities and differences in the approaches by these outputs and general trends have been identified. The comparison is based on a set of criteria developed in discussion with members of these various initiatives, and identifies a range of similarities between their publications. Overall the comparison demonstrates a high level of consensus across definitions and principles, which leads to the conclusion that there is a shared understanding of what sustainable remediation is both across countries and stakeholder groups. Publications do differ in points of detail, in particular about the operational aspects of sustainable remediation assessment. These differences likely result from differences in context and legal framework. As this analysis was carried out its findings were debated with members of the various international initiatives, many of whom have been included as authors. Hence the outcomes described in this paper can be seen as the result of a sort of multi-level debate among international experts (authors) and so can offer a starting point to new sustainable remediation initiatives (for example in other countries) that aim to start developing their own documents.
authors: University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Environmental Sciences Informatics and Statistics, Via delle Industrie 21/8, c/o INCA - VEGAPARK, 30175 Marghera-Venice, Italy.
authors: Erika
authors: E
authors: Rizzo
authors: University of Brighton, Brighton, UK; r3 Environmental Technology Ltd., Reading, UK.
authors: Paul
authors: P
authors: Bardos
authors: University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Environmental Sciences Informatics and Statistics, Via delle Industrie 21/8, c/o INCA - VEGAPARK, 30175 Marghera-Venice, Italy.
authors: Lisa
authors: L
authors: Pizzol
authors: University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Environmental Sciences Informatics and Statistics, Via delle Industrie 21/8, c/o INCA - VEGAPARK, 30175 Marghera-Venice, Italy. Electronic address: critto@unive.it.
authors: Andrea
authors: A
authors: Critto
authors: University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Environmental Sciences Informatics and Statistics, Via delle Industrie 21/8, c/o INCA - VEGAPARK, 30175 Marghera-Venice, Italy.
authors: Elisa
authors: E
authors: Giubilato
authors: University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Environmental Sciences Informatics and Statistics, Via delle Industrie 21/8, c/o INCA - VEGAPARK, 30175 Marghera-Venice, Italy.
authors: Antonio
authors: A
authors: Marcomini
authors: CH2MHILL, Via XXV Aprile, 2, S. Donato Milanese (Mi) 20097, Italy; SuRF Italy-RECONNET, Italy.
authors: Claudio
authors: C
authors: Albano
authors: Common Forum on Contaminated Land in Europe, Paris, France.
authors: Dominique
authors: D
authors: Darmendrail
authors: Environment Agency Austria, Department for Contaminated Sites, Vienna, Austria.
authors: Gernot
authors: G
authors: Döberl
authors: Montclair State University, NJ, USA; CDM Smith, NJ, USA.
authors: Melissa
authors: M
authors: Harclerode
authors: CL:AIRE, London, UK.
authors: Nicola
authors: N
authors: Harries
authors: University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; Land Quality Management Ltd, Nottingham, UK.
authors: Paul
authors: P
authors: Nathanail
authors: US. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC, USA.
authors: Carlos
authors: C
authors: Pachon
authors: r3 Environmental Technology Colombia SAS, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors: Alfonso
authors: A
authors: Rodriguez
authors: Network for Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe, NICOLE Secretariat, P.O. Box 28249, 3003 KE Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ARCADIS Nederland B.V., Arnhem, The Netherlands.
authors: Hans
authors: H
authors: Slenders
authors: Geosyntec Consultants, SuRF Australia, New Zealand.
authors: Garry
authors: G
authors: Smith
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods; D052918:Environmental Restoration and Remediation / Q000379:methods*; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States
keywords: Green remediation; Sustainability appraisal; Sustainable brownfield regeneration; Sustainable remediation; Sustainable remediation approaches comparison; Sustainable remediation trends