Reclaiming the Land (eBook)

Rethinking Superfund Institutions, Methods and Practices

Gregg Macey, Jonathan Z. Cannon (Herausgeber)

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2007 | 2007
XVIII, 305 Seiten
Springer US (Verlag)
978-0-387-48857-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Nearly thirty years after creation of the most advanced and expensive hazardous waste cleanup infrastructure in the world, this book provides a much-needed lens through which the Superfund program should be assessed and reshaped. Focusing on the lessons of adaptive management, it explores new concepts and tools for the cleanup and reuse of contaminated sites, and for dealing with the uncertainty inherent in long-term site stewardship.

Gregg Macey is a Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning at the University of Virginia, where he has taught environmental economics, land use law and policy, and environmental justice. He is also an attorney with the law firm Kirkland & Ellis. He holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia and will receive his Ph.D. in urban planning from MIT. Prior to law school, he worked as a land use mediator and a consultant.

Jonathan Cannon is Professor and Director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program at the University of Virginia Law School. He was formerly in the private practice of environmental law and also served in a number of senior positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, including most recently General Counsel. He was Director of the Center for Expertise for Superfund Site Recycling at the University of Virginia.

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Marianne Horinko Executive Vice President, Global Environment and Technology Foundation On August 7, 1978, President Carter declared a state of emergency in the community of Love Canal, New York. The President urged residents of Love Canal to evacuate, not because of a recent catastrophic event, but because of something that occurred in the 1940's and 1950's. This Niagara Falls community had been developed on land that was formerly used as a landfill. Although the landfill was closed in 1953, it had been a dumping ground for tons of chemical wastes, and that waste would eventually create an environment extremely dangerous to human health. The image of chemicals seeping into the basements of American homes would produce widespread panic, but would also raise the environmental consciousness of a nation, and produce a legislative response that was equal to the task. Americans celebrated the first Earth Day in April, 1970. Throughout the rest of the decade, we passed legislation intended to fulfill the promise of that day: to create a clean and safe environment. However, there were still holes in our environmental protection in 1978, evidenced by the problems at Love Canal. In response, Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) or, as many people call it, Superfund. Passed in 1980, this law was intended to address problems like the ones faced at Love Canal.

Inhalt

FOREWORD 12
INTRODUCTION: The Promises and Pitfalls of Adaptive Site Stewardship 17
1 OVERVIEW OF THE SUPERFUND PROGRAM 40
2 ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT IN SUPERFUND: Thinking like a Contaminated Site 63
3 ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT: A Review and Framework for Integration with Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 102
4 SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND ADAPTIVE LEARNING FOR PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT OF SUPERFUND SITES 142
5 A COST- BENEFIT MODEL FOR EVALUATING REMEDIATION ALTERNATIVES AT SUPERFUND SITES INCORPORATING THE VALUE OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES 182
6 INSTITUTIONAL CONTROLS AT BROWNFIELDS: Real Estate and Land Use, Not Just RCRA and Superfund 210
7 RETHINKING COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT FOR SUPERFUND SITE REUSE: The Case for Consensus-Building in Adaptive Management 224
8 TOXIC SITES AS PLACES OF CULTURE AND MEMORY: Adaptive Management for Citizenship 257
9 CHAT: Approaches to Long-Term Planning for the Tar Creek Superfund Site, Ottawa County, Oklahoma 278
CONCLUSION 304

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.6.2007
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 305 p. 70 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Adaptive management • brownfields • CERCLA • contaminated land • ecosystem • Environmental economics • environmental protection • Integration • Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning • Recycling • superfund site management
• ISBN-10: 0-387-48857-X / 038748857X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-48857-8 / 9780387488578