The remediation and redevelopment of brownfields are important for achieving sustainable neighborhoods. Voluntary cleanup programs (VCPs) have been established by most states as the principal tool for brownfield redevelopment. Therefore, it is important to understand what site and neighborhood characteristics make it more likely for brownfield property owners to participate. We provide policy-m...

Structural change in the agricultural economy may result abandonment of buildings, creating rural brownfield sites. Since fall Iron Curtain 1989, post-agricultural brownfields have become very common Central and Eastern Europe. Our aim is to uncover understand reuse preferences for 16 options, among 1275 survey respondents (local residents) from 272 communities with Czech Republic. The influenc...

As urban areas in many developing countries continue to witness rapid spatial and demographic growth, the sustenance of greenbelts is seriously threatened due increasing demand for land housing provision infrastructure. However, a country like Nigeria, there lack clarity on some contentious issues regarding greenbelts. This study investigated role environment socio-economic development cities s...

The scrutiny of environmental cleanups within the United States has been a growing area interest for social scientists. Scholars have used case studies and modeling to analyze struggles justice economics stigma associated with Superfund sites. This research primarily analyzed community perspectives on remediation removal, such as local strategies participating in cleanup decisions. There less w...

Residual oil zones (ROZs) could present a new, potentially large and commercially viable resource for Australia provide an avenue geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) through CO2 enhanced recovery (CO2-EOR). These reservoirs, which can contain moderate amount residual resemble water-flooded fields, be associated with conventional fields (brownfields) or occur no main pay zone (greenfields...

With reference to brownfield sites redevelopment interventions, an innovative model for the definition of effective and financially sustainable initiatives is proposed tested. The borrows operative logic break-even analysis (BEA). It neglects basic assumption BEA related revenue linearity, by considering real trend revenues. In fact, in specific contexts characterized a estate over supply—e.g.,...

This paper describes the greening of ash dumps from two thermal power plants located in Romania, villages Mintia and Doicești, rural areas neighboring middle-sized cities, both with architectural, archaeological landscape heritage. Currently, Romanian have different fates context shrinking solutions industrialized country Germany that are more advanced closing polluting examples this. Thus, ind...

Railway transportation faces many of the issues that are related to standard brownfields - due changing technologies and industries, more effective systems (of traffic control in this case) evolving needs areas actually no longer necessary for proper function railway. That is especially prominent case railway stations, where a significant number stations use just portion their available tracks,...