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INNOVATIONS IN GROUND WATER AND SOIL CLEANUP
FROM CONCEPT TO COMMERCIALIZATION |
| By: |
Committee on Innovative Remediation Technologies, Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0309063582 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780309063586 |
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| Publisher: |
NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
20 October, 1997 |
| Pages: |
310 |
| Description: |
Focuses on the failure of regulatory policy to link cleanup with the financial interests of the company responsible for the contamination. This volume explores how to evaluate the performance of cleanup technologies and discusses approaches to standardizing testing, so that choosing a technology for a site can be timely and less contentious. |
| Synopsis: |
Most books on ground water and soil cleanup address only the technologies themselves--not why new technologies are or are not developed. Innovations in Ground Water and Soil Cleanup takes a holistic approach to the entire field, addressing both the sluggish commercial development of ground water and soil cleanup technologies and the attributes of specific technologies. It warns that, despite cleanup expenditures of nearly $10 billion a year, the technologies remain rudimentary. This engaging book focuses on the failure of regulatory policy to link cleanup with the financial interests of the company responsible for the contamination. The committee explores why the market for remediation technology is uniquely lacking in economic drivers and why demand for innovation has been so much weaker than predicted. The volume explores how to evaluate the performance of cleanup technologies from the points of view of the public, regulators, cleanup entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders. The committee discusses approaches to standardizing performance testing, so that choosing a technology for a given site can be more timely and less contentious.Following up on Alternatives for Ground Water Cleanup (NRC, 1994), this sequel presents the state of the art in the cleanup of various types of ground water and soil contaminants. Strategies for making valid cost comparisons also are reviewed. |
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US |
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National Academies Press |
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