Full Description
The environmental legacy of past industrial and agricultural development can simultaneously pose serious threats to human health and impede reuse of contaminated land. The urban landscape around the world is littered with sites contaminated with a variety of toxins produced by past use. Both public and private sector actors are often reluctant to make significant investments in properties that simultaneously pose significant potential human health issues, and may demand complex and very expensive cleanups. The chapters in this volume recognize that land and water contamination are now almost universally acknowledged to be key social, economic, and political issues. How multiple societies have attempted to craft and implement public policy to deal with these issues provides the central focus of the book. The volume is unique in that it provides a global comparative perspective on brownfield policy and examples of its use in a variety of countries.
Contents
I: Policy; 1: Incentives for Collaboration; 2: Changing Agendas in State Environmental Policy; 3: Revitalizing Contaminated Land in Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States; 4: Redevelopment Strategy of Brownfield Sites in the Czech Republic; II: Implementation and Evaluation; 5: Exploring the Potential for Integrating Community Benefits Agreements into Brownfield Redevelopment Projects; 6: The Quantitative and Qualitative Impacts of Brownfield Policies in England; 7: New Urban Communities; 8: The Inertia of Environmental Regulatory Enforcement in China; 9: Strategic Land Management in Germany; III: Brownfield Case Studies; 10: Fostering Brownfields Development in Rust Belt Cities; 11: Institutional Network Management in Brownfield Cleanup and Redevelopment; 12: From Blighted Brownfields to Healthy and Sustainable Communities; 13: Michigan Brownfield Redevelopment Innovation
