Soil Remediation and Rehabilitation: Treatment of Contaminated and Disturbed Land (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789400798229)

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.

Author: Helmut Meuser
ISBN-10: 9400798229
ISBN-13: 9789400798229
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 01/29/2015
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.87d