Brownfield to green fields: realising wider benefits from practical plant-based contaminant management strategies

• Published in: Journal of Environmental Management
• Main Authors: Cundy, Andrew B., Bardos, R.Paul, Puschenreiter, Markus, Mench, Michel, Bert, Valérie, Friesl-Hanl, Wolfgang, Müller, Ingo, Li, X.N., Weyens, Nele, Witters, Nele, Vangronsveld, Jaco
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: contaminated land; Brownfields; gentle remediation options; phytoremediation; phytomanagement; heavy metals; decision support tools; Greenland; Parkland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/21382; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.03.028

Gentle remediation options (GROs) are risk management strategies or technologies involving plant (phyto-), fungi (myco-), and/or bacteria-based methods that result in a net gain (or at least no gross reduction) in soil function as well as effective risk management. GRO strategies can be customised a...