Nearly thirty years after creation of the most advanced and expensive hazardous waste cleanup infrastructure in the world, Reclaiming the Land provides a much-needed lens through which the Superfund program should be assessed and reshaped. Focusing on the lessons of adaptive management, it explores new concepts and tools for the cleanup and reuse of contaminated sites, and for dealing with the uncertainty-inherent in long-term site stewardship. Its contributors include scholars and practitioners representing many decades of experience with the Superfund program as well as a variety of disciplines.
List of Figures viiList of Tables ixContributors xAcknowledgements xiForward xiiiIntroduction: The Promises and Pitfalls of Adaptive Site Stewardship Gregg P. Macey 1Overview of the Superfund Program Alexander E. Farrell 25Adaptive Management in Superfund: Thinking Like a Contaminated Site Jonathan Z. Cannon 49Adaptive Management: A Review and Framework for Integration with Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis F. Kyle Satterstrom Igor Linkov Gregory Kiker Todd Bridges Marc Greenberg 89Systems Analysis and Adaptive Learning for Portfolio Management of Superfund Sites Peter A. Beling James H. Lambert Faheem A. Rahman George O. Overstreet David Slutzky 129A Cost-Benefit Model for Evaluating Remediation Alternatives at Superfund Sites Incorporating the Value of Ecosystem Services Melissa Kenney Mark White 169Institutional Controls at Brownfields: Real Estate and Land Use, Not Just RCRA and Superfund Jennifer L. Hernandez Peter W. Landreth 197Rethinking Community Involvement for Superfund Site Reuse: The Case forConsensus-Building in Adaptive Management E. Franklin Dukes 211Toxic Sites as Places of Culture and Memory: Adaptive Management for Citizenship Daniel Bluestone 245CHAT: Approaches to Long-Term Planning for the Tar Creek Superfund Site, Ottawa County, Oklahoma Niall G. Kirkwood 267Conclusion Gregg P. Macey Jonathan Z. Cannon 293Index 299