Soil Remediation and Rehabilitation: Treatment of Contaminated and Disturbed Land

ISBN-13: 9789400798229 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 408 str.

Helmut Meuser

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of remediation and rehabilitation techniques and strategies for contaminated and anthropogenically disturbed land. Rehabilitation approaches in the urban environment, such as brownfield redevelopment and urban mining, are discussed. In relation to contaminated land, techniques for soil containment and decontamination of soil, soil vapour and groundwater are comprehensively and systematically presented. Complicated treatment techniques are schematically depicted and can be readily understood. Agricultural, silvicultural and environmentally sustainable rehabilitation strategies for reclaiming disturbed land/terrain in former mining or natural-resource extraction areas, such as open-cast mines, quarries, harvested peatlands, and subsided mining terrain (sinkholes), are introduced. This book will be a useful tool for students, researchers, private consultants and public authorities engaged in the treatment of contaminated or disturbed land.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"This clear, well-written book is a very complete, accurate, and up-to-date presentation on soil contamination and treatment. Meuser ... begins by discussing the mounting problem of anthropogenic sources of solid waste and its composition, and how to dispose of it in landfills. ... Useful diagrams and colored photographs of construction sites/methods are provided. ... Meuser also covers treatment of contaminated groundwater. Diagrams are clear and well labeled throughout. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students through professionals/practitioners." (A. S. Casparian, Choice, Vol. 51 (3), November, 2013)

Spis treści

Introduction.-Rehabilitation of soils in urban environments.-Brownfield redevelopment.-Environmentally friendly approaches.-Urban mining.-Rehabilitation of soils in mining and raw material extraction areas.-Open-cast coal mines.-Mining heaps.-Quarries and open pit mines.-Subsided mining terrain.-Peatlands.-Treatment of contaminated land.-Overview of soil remediation measures.-Site and soil management.-Site clearance operation.-Working safety.-Soil containment.-Surface cover.-Side barriers installation and encapsulation.-Solidification.-Stabilisation.-Soil decontamination.-Soil preparation.-Soil washing.-Bioremediation.-Phytoremediation.-Thermal treatment.- Electrokinetic remediation.-Treatment centers.-Groundwater, soil vapour and surface water treatment.-Groundwater treatment.-Soil vapour treatment.-Surface water restoration.-Approaches without complex technical applications.-Protective and restrictive measures.-Natural attenuation.-Remediation planning.-General aspects of the planning processes.-Evaluation of the feasibility for soil remediation techniques.- Evaluation of the feasibility for groundwater remediation techniques.-Time and cost factor.-Outlook.-Index.

Blurb

This book provides a comprehensive overview of remediation and rehabilitation techniques and strategies for contaminated and anthropogenically disturbed land.

 

Rehabilitation approaches in the urban environment, such as brownfield redevelopment and urban mining, are discussed.

 

In relation to contaminated land, techniques for soil containment and decontamination of soil, soil vapour and groundwater are comprehensively and systematically presented. Complicated treatment techniques are schematically depicted and can be readily understood.

 

The more traditional approaches, such as soil washing, bioremediation, and pump-and-treat, are introduced, but the younger fields of remediation, like phytoremediation, funnel-and-gate, and steam-enhanced extraction, are also taken into consideration.

 

Agricultural, silvicultural and environmentally sustainable rehabilitation strategies for reclaiming disturbed land/terrain in former mining or natural-resource extraction areas, such as open-cast mines, quarries, harvested peatlands, open-pit mines and subsided mining terrain (sinkholes), are introduced.

 

Since this book gives a complete and systematic overview of all types of soil, soil vapour and groundwater remediation techniques, as well as rehabilitation approaches for soils/terrain in mining areas, it will be a useful tool not only for universities and research institutes, but also for private consultants and public authorities engaged in the treatment of contaminated or disturbed land.