Sustainable remediation: Including the external costs of remediation

Land Contamination and Reclamation

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 307-317

  Hardisty, Paul E ^a,b   Ozdemiroglu, Ece ^c   Arch, Stuart ^d  

^a INTECSEA   (Canada)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c eftec   (United Kingdom)

^d WORLEYPARSONS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contaminated site management; Cost benefit analysis; Decision support tools; Environmental economics; Remediation; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATED LAND; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GROUNDWATER; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDFILL; REMEDIATION; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 57749096186     PISSN: 09670513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2462/09670513.905     Document Type: Article

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