The development of a brownfield-specific sustainability and indicator framework for regenerating sites: Proposing a new definition of 'sustainable brownfield regeneration'

Land Contamination and Reclamation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-54

  Thornton, Gareth J P ^a   Nathanail, C Paul ^b   Franz, Martin ^c   Pahlen, Gernot ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d Montan Grundstücksgesellschaft mbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brownfields; Indicator framework; Regeneration; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

BROWNFIELD SITE; LAND RECLAMATION; REDEVELOPMENT; REGENERATION; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 33847301847     PISSN: 09670513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2462/09670513.836     Document Type: Article

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