Finnish policy approach and measures for the promotion of sustainability in contaminated land management

Reinikainen, Jussi; Sorvari, Jaana; Tikkanen, Sarianne

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.08.046

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“…Respondents were asked to rate whether critical services were available during floods on a scale from 0 which represented never available (i.e., “no services available, so high risk assumed”); 3 was a moderate option (i.e., “moderately risky”); and 5 represented availability of services (i.e., “no risk”). Similar scales have been successfully used to assess perceived environmental and health risks [11,20,21,22]. We also asked the respondents about actions to take during a flood, and how they gained information about a flood event.…”

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Disaster Risk Resilience in Colima-Villa de Alvarez, Mexico: Application of the Resilience Index to Flash Flooding Events

Mendoza-Cano

Jesús

Ian

et al. 2019

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Resilience is an indicator of the ability of systems to withstand disruption within acceptable degradation parameters and also their recovery time. It is essential for public policies to understand how the population reacts to a particular risk. In this paper we have performed a study that quantitatively measures perceptions of flooding and resilience to flooding in the city of Colima-Villa de Alvarez, Mexico 2018–2019. A resilience index has been applied to ten zones of the city. In our research we assessed risk perception through a city-wide survey with questions based on a Likert scale. An analysis was performed on public knowledge of the existing security protocols for floods and evaluated the public perception of the availability of critical services, such as fresh water, electricity, food, drainage, communications and public transport during a flash flood events. This research has identified populated low resilience zones that can be considered as priorities for resource and effort to mitigate floods and their impacts. The novel resilience index developed in this work can also be applied to other type of risk that humans face and used as a basis for discussions about urban resilience.

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confidence: 99%

Disaster Risk Resilience in Colima-Villa de Alvarez, Mexico: Application of the Resilience Index to Flash Flooding Events

Mendoza-Cano

Jesús

Ian

et al. 2019

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“…Review of Finnish Ministry Environment guidance for risk assessment and sustainable risk management, which describes methods and indicators for sustainability assessment and the assessment process itself [85]. The sustainability assessment followed the SuRF-UK framework and included use of its headline indicator categories.…”

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The Development and Use of Sustainability Criteria in SuRF-UK’s Sustainable Remediation Framework

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Sustainability considerations have become widely recognised in contaminated land management and are now accepted as an important component of remediation planning and implementation around the world. The Sustainable Remediation Forum for the UK (SuRF-UK) published guidance on sustainability criteria for consideration in drawing up (or framing) assessments, organised across 15 “headline” categories, five for the environment element of sustainability, five for the social, and five for the economic. This paper describes how the SuRF-UK indicator guidance was developed, and the rationale behind its structure and approach. It describes its use in remediation option appraisal in the UK, and reviews the international papers that have applied or reviewed it. It then reviews the lessons learned from its initial use and the opinions and findings of international commentators, and concludes with recommendations on how the indicator categories might be further refined in the future. The key findings of this review are that the SuRF-UK framework and indicator guidance is well adopted into practice in the UK. It is widely recognised as the most appropriate mechanism to support sustainability-based decision making in contaminated land decision making. It has influenced the development of other national and international guidance and standards on sustainable remediation. However, there is room for some fine tuning of approach based on the lessons learned during its application.

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“…However, this method, frequently, presents a lower remediation potential, being often considered time-consuming and presenting many uncertainties during the process. Also, considering the potential risks, environment and/or human health, this technique could not be suitable for its application at certain sites [10].…”

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Zero-Valent Iron Nanoparticles for Soil and Groundwater Remediation

Galdames

Ruiz‐Rubio

Orueta³

et al. 2020

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Zero-valent iron has been reported as a successful remediation agent for environmental issues, being extensively used in soil and groundwater remediation. The use of zero-valent nanoparticles have been arisen as a highly effective method due to the high specific surface area of zero-valent nanoparticles. Then, the development of nanosized materials in general, and the improvement of the properties of the nano-iron in particular, has facilitated their application in remediation technologies. As the result, highly efficient and versatile nanomaterials have been obtained. Among the possible nanoparticle systems, the reactivity and availability of zero-valent iron nanoparticles (NZVI) have achieved very interesting and promising results make them particularly attractive for the remediation of subsurface contaminants. In fact, a large number of laboratory and pilot studies have reported the high effectiveness of these NZVI-based technologies for the remediation of groundwater and contaminated soils. Although the results are often based on a limited contaminant target, there is a large gap between the amount of contaminants tested with NZVI at the laboratory level and those remediated at the pilot and field level. In this review, the main zero-valent iron nanoparticles and their remediation capacity are summarized, in addition to the pilot and land scale studies reported until date for each kind of nanomaterials.

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Finnish policy approach and measures for the promotion of sustainability in contaminated land management

Cited by 25 publications

References 20 publications

Disaster Risk Resilience in Colima-Villa de Alvarez, Mexico: Application of the Resilience Index to Flash Flooding Events

Disaster Risk Resilience in Colima-Villa de Alvarez, Mexico: Application of the Resilience Index to Flash Flooding Events

The Development and Use of Sustainability Criteria in SuRF-UK’s Sustainable Remediation Framework

Zero-Valent Iron Nanoparticles for Soil and Groundwater Remediation

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