Assessing costs and benefits of improved soil quality management in remediation projects: A study of an urban site contaminated with PAH and metals
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2020

Contaminants in the soil may threaten soil functions (SFs) and, in turn, hinder the delivery of ecosystem services (ES). A framework for ecological risk assessments (ERAs) within the APPLICERA - APPLICable site-specific Environmental Risk Assessment research project promotes assessments that consider other soil quality parameters than only contaminant concentrations. The developed framework is: (i) able to differentiate the effects of contamination on SFs from the effects of other soil qualities essential for soil biota; and (ii) provides a robust basis for improved soil quality management in remediation projects. This study evaluates the socio-economic consequences of remediation alternatives stemming from a Tier 1 ERA that focusses on total contaminant concentrations and soil quality standards and a detailed, site-specific Tier 3 Triad approach that is based on the APPLICERA framework. The present study demonstrates how Tier 1 and Tier 3 ERAs differ in terms of the socioeconomic consequences of their remediation actions, as well as presents a novel method for the semi-quantitative assessment of on-site ES. Although the presented Tier 3 ERA is more expensive and time-consuming than the more traditional Tier 1 ERA approach, it has the potential to lower the costs of remediation actions, decrease greenhouse gas emissions, reduce other environmental impacts, and minimise socio-economic losses. Furthermore, the remediation actions stemming from the Tier 3 ERA were predicted to exert far less negative ES effects than the actions proposed based on the results of the Tier 1 ERA. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Ecosystem services

Contaminated sites

Ecological risk assessment

Remediation

Soil quality

Cost-benefit analysis

Författare

Yevheniya Volchko

Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Geologi och geoteknik

Dan Berggren Kleja

Statens Geotekniska Institut (SGI)

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)

Par-Erik Back

Statens Geotekniska Institut (SGI)

Charlotta Tiberg

Statens Geotekniska Institut (SGI)

Anja Enell

Statens Geotekniska Institut (SGI)

Maria Larsson

Örebro universitet

Christopher M. Jones

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)

Astrid Taylor

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)

Maria Viketoft

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)

Annika Aberg

SWECO Environment

Anna-Karin Dahlberg

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)

Jana Weiss

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)

Karin Wiberg

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)

Lars Rosen

Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Geologi och geoteknik

Science of the Total Environment

0048-9697 (ISSN) 1879-1026 (eISSN)

Vol. 707 135582

Ämneskategorier

Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap

Annan naturresursteknik

Miljövetenskap

DOI

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135582

PubMed

31776003

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