Review of Decision Support Tools for Contaminated Land

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Management and their Use in Europe

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Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

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This report is the result of working group "Decision Support Tools" of the network CLARINET

(Contaminated Land Rehabilitation Network for Environmental Technologies), a project funded under

the Environment and Climate Programme of the European Commission.

CLARINET provides an interdisciplinary network on the sustainable management of contaminated

land in Europe, analysed key-issues in decision-making processes and identified priority research

needs on technical, environmental and socio-economic topics. The network brings together the

combined knowledge and expertise of academics, national policy makers, government experts,

consultants, industrial land owners and technology developers from 16 European countries. The key

objective of CLARINET was to identify the means for the effective and sustainable management

of contaminated land in order to ensure the safe (re-)use of these lands abate caused water

pollution maintain the functionality of soil and (ground-)water ecosystems.

CLARINET focused on the basis of currently applied risk-based procedures for land management in

European countries, aiming to evaluate the current state of the art and to stimulate scientific

collaboration on identified research needs in Europe.

To yield an integrated approach within the project, several interlinked working groups were

identifying problem and solution related aspects for contaminated land management. Following

themes have been addressed:

Brownfields Redevelopment

Impacts of Contaminated Land on Water Resources

Remediation Technologies and Techniques

Human Health Aspects

Risk Management and Decision Support

Furthermore, one working group aimed to stimulate collaboration between various R&D Programmes

on a European level.

Based on the identified state-of-the-art in these areas, integrative concepts and recommendations

for tackling contaminated land problems have be investigated, taking the different approaches in

the European countries into account. Needs for further research have been identified.

The individual working group results contributed in developing an overall conceptual framework for

sustainable management of contaminated land (Risk Based Land Management). This concept is

also available within this series of publications.