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Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration Liveable Places from Problem Spaces Edited by Tim Dixon Professor of Real Estate Oxford Institute of Sustainable Development Mike Raco Senior Lecturer Department of Geography King’s College London Philip Catney Research Associate Department of Town & Country Planning University of Sheffield David N. Lerner Professor of Environmental Engineering Catchment Science Centre University of Sheffield Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration Editors’ Dedications Tim Dixon would like to dedicate this book to Rachel and Sam for all their love and support during the course of editing this book. Philip Catney would like to dedicate this book to Rachel for her love, understanding and support over the years. Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration Liveable Places from Problem Spaces Edited by Tim Dixon Professor of Real Estate Oxford Institute of Sustainable Development Mike Raco Senior Lecturer Department of Geography King’s College London Philip Catney Research Associate Department of Town & Country Planning University of Sheffield David N. Lerner Professor of Environmental Engineering Catchment Science Centre University of Sheffield © 2007 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd Blackwell Publishing editorial offices: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK Tel:+44 (0)1865 776868 Blackwell Publishing Inc., 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA Tel:+1 781 388 8250 Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd, 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia Tel:+61 (0)3 8359 1011 The right of the Authors to be identified as the Authors of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. 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First published 2007 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-4403-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sustainable brownfield regeneration : liveable places from problem spaces / edited by Tim Dixon...[et al.]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-4403-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Soil remediation. 2. Brownfields. 3. Reclamation of land. 4. Sustainable buildings. 5. Building sites. I. Dixon, Timothy J., 1958– TD878.S872 2007 333.77′137—dc22 2007010208 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library Set in 10/13pt Trump Mediaeval by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong Printed and bound in Singapore by Utopia Press Pte Ltd The publisher’s policy is to use permanent paper from mills that operate a sustainable forestry policy, and which has been manufactured from pulp processed using acid-free and elementary chlorine-free practices. 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For further information on Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: www.blackwellpublishing.com/construction Contents Notes on the Contributors ix Acknowledgements xv Foreword xvi PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 Introduction 3 Tim Dixon and Mike Raco 1.1 Background 3 1.2 Aims and objectives 5 1.3 Structure of the book 6 2 Researching Sustainability: The Possibilities and Limitations of Cross-Cutting Research in the Urban Environment 9 Mike Raco and Tim Dixon 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Intellectual disciplines, interdisciplinarity and the construction of knowledge 10 2.3 The rise and rise of the sustainability agenda 19 2.4 The EPSRC’s Sustainable Urban Environments programme and the emergence of the SUBR:IM consortium 22 2.5 Conclusions: SUBR:IM and new ways of working 28 PART 2 REGENERATION 33 3 Democracy, Trust and Risk Related to Contaminated Sites in the UK 35 Philip Catney, Dick Eiser, John Henneberry and Tom Stafford 3.1 Introduction 35 3.2 Contaminated land in the UK: context and policy 36 3.3 Democracy, trust and risk in environmental governance 41 3.4 Case studies 49 3.5 Conclusions 62 vi Contents 4 Actor Networks: The Brownfield Merry-Go-Round 67 Joe Doak and Nikos Karadimitriou 4.1 Introduction 67 4.2 Actors and their roles 70 4.3 Networks and their construction 74 4.4 Network processes in brownfield regeneration 77 4.5 Conclusions 85 5 Heroes or Villains? The Role of the UK Property Development Industry in Sustainable Urban Brownfield Regeneration 89 Tim Dixon 5.1 Introduction 89 5.2 The nature and challenge of brownfield development 90 5.3 The role of the UK property development industry in brownfield regeneration 93 5.4 Survey and interview findings 94 5.5 Learning from practice: Thames Gateway and Greater Manchester 98 5.6 Towards best practice? 102 5.7 A checklist for developers 108 5.8 Conclusions 109 Acknowledgements 111 5A.1 Appendix 1 National developer interviewees and questionnaire sample 111 5A.2 Appendix 2 Details of case study interviews 114 6 Delivering Brownfield Regeneration: Sustainable Community-Building in London and Manchester 119 Mike Raco, Steven Henderson and Sophie Bowlby 6.1 Introduction 119 6.2 Building for the future: visions, practices and the delivery of sustainable urban regeneration 120 6.3 Flagship urban brownfield regeneration in the UK: the redevelopment of Salford Quays and Paddington Basin 123 6.4 Conclusions: lessons for urban development policy 137 Contents vii PART 3 REMEDIATION 141 7 Greening Brownfield Land 143 Andy Moffat and Tony Hutchings 7.1 Introduction 143 7.2 Background and context 143 7.3 A sustainable process for greenspace 150 7.4 Contamination 154 7.5 Sustainable greenspace 166 7.6 The future of greenspace on brownfield land 170 7.7 Conclusions 171 8 Novel Special-purpose Composts for Sustainable Remediation 177 Sabeha Ouki, René van Herwijnen, Michael Harbottle, Tony Hutchings, Abir Al-Tabbaa, Mike Johns and Andy Moffat 8.1 Introduction 177 8.2 Materials characterisation 178 8.3 Experimental design 182 8.4 Heavy metals containment in soils 183 8.5 Biomass 190 8.6 Enhanced compost 193 8.7 Magnetic resonance imaging 195 8.8 Conclusions 198 9 Robust Sustainable Technical Solutions 203 Abir Al-Tabbaa, Michael Harbottle and Chris Evans 9.1 Introduction 203 9.2 Sustainability assessment of currently available remediation technologies in the UK 204 9.3 Sustainability improvements to remediation techniques 223 9.4 Conclusions 232 10 ‘The Creature Lurks Within?’ Restoring Acid Tar Lagoons 237 Simon Talbot, Nigel Lawson and Colin Smith 10.1 Introduction 237 10.2 Acid tar lagoons: a technical introduction 238 10.3 Regulating risk on an acid tar lagoon 243 10.4 Lesson-drawing from Germany: an appraisal of the state of the art in remediation 252 10.5 Conclusions 260 viii Contents PART 4 JOINED-UP SOLUTIONS 263 11 Climate Change, Pollutant Linkage and Brownfield Regeneration 265 Abir Al-Tabbaa, Sinead Smith, Cécile De Munck, Tim Dixon, Joe Doak, Stephen Garvin and Mike Raco 11.1 Introduction 265 11.2 Evidence of impacts of climate change on contaminated land systems 266 11.3 Modelling potential impacts of climate change and the creation of greenspace on contaminated land 280 11.4 Climate change mitigation and adaptation 292 11.5 Technical adaptation and risk management strategies 294 11.6 Stakeholder adaptation key issues and findings 303 11.7 Conclusions 310 Acknowledgements 311 12 Evaluating the Sustainability of Brownfield Redevelopment Projects 315 Kalliope Pediaditi, Walter Wehrmeyer and Kate Burningham 12.1 Introduction 315 12.2 Sustainability evaluation in brownfield projects 316 12.3 The Redevelopment Assessment Framework 320 12.4 Conclusions 345 12A.1 Appendix 346 13 Is Brown the New Green? 352 Philip Catney, David N. Lerner, Tim Dixon and Mike Raco 13.1 Introduction 352 13.2 Sustainablebrownfield regeneration 352 13.3 Sustainability in action 358 13.4 Constructing cross-disciplinary research: lessons from the SUBR:IM experience 366 13.5 Conclusions 369 Index 373
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