Brownfields Redevelopment, Preferences and Public Involvement: A Case Study of an Ethnically Mixed Neighbourhood

Greenberg, Michael; Lewis, Miranda

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“…These findings are consistent with surveys of brownfield redevelopment in urban areas that show that residents want recreation and community facilities on remediated sites (Greenberg & Lewis, 2000), even though the original concept behind brownfield redevelopment was to replace lost production jobs with other jobs. Furthermore, contrary to the assertion that no one would want to live on a former brownfield site, a New Jersey survey (Greenberg et al, 2001) found that 14 percent of respondents were both planning to move during the next five years and would be willing to live in housing on top of cleaned-up brownfield sites.…”

Section: Managing the Assets And Plausible End States: Immediate Contsupporting

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End-state land uses, sustainably protective systems, and risk management: A challenge for remediation and multigenerational stewardship

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This article discusses creating a sustainably protective engineered and human management system in perpetuity for sites with long-lived radiological and chemical hazards. This is essential at this time because the federal government is evaluating its property as assets and attempting to reduce its holdings, while seeking to assure that health and ecosystems are not put at risk. To assist those who have a stake in the remediation, management, and stewardship of these and analogous privately owned sites, this article discusses current end-state planning by reviewing the federal government's accelerated efforts to reduce its footprint and how those efforts relate to sustainability. The article also provides a list of questions organized around six elements of risk management and primary, secondary, and tertiary disease and injury prevention. Throughout the article, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is used as an example of an organization that seeks to reduce its footprint, manage its budget, and be a steward of the sites that it is responsible for. INTRODUCTIONThere is a widely held expectation supported by some laws and precedents that federal agencies such as the Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Defense (DOD), just like other government and private organizations, will not leave materials on site that will endanger people and ecosystems. One way of meeting that expectation is to choose a future land use that minimizes exposure. But a conservative land-use plan surrounded by a buffer zone may not be appropriate at many sites where the contaminated land is otherwise a valuable asset.Whatever the land-use choices, the responsible organization needs an unambiguous mechanism that ties its land-use choices to risk through a sustainably protective system that can be operated as long as it is needed, in perpetuity if necessary. Such a sustainable plan rests on a sound remediation and monitoring program and then requires both engineered systems and human operations.A sustainable system is particularly critical during a period when the current owners and managers of federal government property are evaluating all federal properties as assets and where in some case they are shrinking their footprint by turning over, easing, and selling sites to other federal agencies, states, local governments, and private organizations (Baxa, 2004;Bush, 2004 The goal of efficient asset management is challenging at sites where contamination by long-lived radiological and chemical agents is a legacy (Burger et al., 2003b. At these sites, it is incumbent on site managers; natural resource damage committees; other federal, state, and local government officials; and other stakeholders to understand the risk implications while assessing these assets, whether it leads to reducing the footprint, or, alternatively, to keeping the land but optimizing/modifying its potential uses, or plans for its management (for example, considering different remediation approaches).With asset management as context, the objectives of this article are (1...

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End-state land uses, sustainably protective systems, and risk management: A challenge for remediation and multigenerational stewardship

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“…Their perception of soil contamination (Grasmück and Scholz 2005;Vandermoere 2008), willingness to pay for cleanup (Alberini et al 2007), and preferences towards land redevelopment policies (Greenberg and Lewis 2000;Turvani et al 2006) will be a significant deterrence to bureaucratic complacency. Figure 3 shows the flow of technical information and a decision-making diagram.…”

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Soil pollution and site remediation policies in China: A review

Jiao

Xiao

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It was not until the 1980s that China's policy makers became aware of the detrimental impacts on urban health from soil pollution as a result of industrial waste emissions. For the past three decades, the Chinese government has strived to prevent and control industrial pollution. Setting appropriate environmental policies is the key to mitigating the legacy of industrial waste emissions accumulated for three decades. In this paper, we review the development process by outlining the evolution of the policies and the resulting legal infrastructure in terms of acts, regulations, ordinances, and standards. Deficiencies of the existing policies are identified. In the early stages, environmental policies were fragmented, consisting of single-purpose laws that are narrowly focused. With time, these policies gradually evolved to become better integrated and comprehensive management plans. However, the laws emphasize contaminated site restoration instead of preventing soil pollution. The legal framework shows that the policies that are in place often lack clear mandates because the authorizations are piggybacked on environmental acts and regulations that do not directly address issues of soil pollution. Furthermore, implementation plans are impractical due to outdated soil quality standards, unclear soil cleanup goals, unenforceable liability and supervision mechanisms, limited funding, lack of transparency and public outreach, and the unreliable financial and technical capabilities of the remediation industries.Résumé : Il a fallu attendre les années 1980 avant que les décideurs politiques chinois prennent conscience des impacts néfastes sur la santé urbaine exercés par la pollution des sols provenant des émissions de rejets industriels. Au cours des trois dernières décades, le gouvernement chinois s'est efforcé de prévenir et de contrôler la pollution industrielle. La mise en place de politiques environnementales appropriées constitue la clé pour mitiger l'héritage des émissions de rejets industriels accumulés depuis pendant trois décades. Les auteurs passent en revue le processus de développement, en soulignant l'évolution des politiques et les infrastructures légales qui en résultent en termes d'actions, de règlements, d'ordonnances et de standards. On identifie de plus les faiblesses des politiques existantes. Aux premières étapes, les politiques étaient fragmentées, consistant en législations à finalités uniques étroitement ciblées. Avec le temps, ces politiques ont graduellement évolué pour se traduire en plans d'aménagement mieux intégrés et plus complets. Cependant, les lois insistent sur la restauration des sites contaminés plutôt que sur la prévention de la pollution du sol. Le cadre légal montre que les politiques en place manquent souvent de mandats clairs par ce que les autorisations s'empilent sur des actes et règlements ne s'adressant pas directement aux problèmes de la pollution des sols. De plus, la réalisation des plans n'est pas possible dû à des standards désuets sur la qualité des sols, des objectifs...

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“…In disadvantaged neighbourhoods a level of trust between brownfields redevelopment partners and neighbours may not exist and care must be taken to build bridges and provide translation services and process education (Greenberg and Lewis 2000). However, developers are not often willing to undertake such efforts.…”

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Promoting community involvement at brownfields sites in socio-economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods

Gallagher

Jackson

2008

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Brownfields programmes provide environmental justice to distressed communities by applying private sector remediation and real estate expertise to abandoned and contaminated properties. This study examines how brownfields developers and community support organisations operating in socio-economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods work to increase awareness of projects in the community, build trust between stakeholders and create mechanisms for community members to participate in brownfields decision making. Analysis of case study data from brownfields sites in four US cities shows that developers and non-governmental organisations can play important roles in fashioning redevelopment outcomes which benefit both developers and communities. When standard required outreach efforts are combined with non-traditional community involvement mechanisms, the result is often long-term support for redevelopment projects.brownfields, public participation, environmental justice, stakeholders, VCP,

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Brownfields Redevelopment, Preferences and Public Involvement: A Case Study of an Ethnically Mixed Neighbourhood

Cited by 84 publications

References 20 publications

End-state land uses, sustainably protective systems, and risk management: A challenge for remediation and multigenerational stewardship

End-state land uses, sustainably protective systems, and risk management: A challenge for remediation and multigenerational stewardship

Soil pollution and site remediation policies in China: A review

Promoting community involvement at brownfields sites in socio-economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods

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