Adaptive Management in Superfund

摘要: Over the last three decades adaptive management has emerged as one of most promising innovations in natural resource and environmental regulation. Yet possible benefits this approach for Superfund, which is among nation’s expensive controversial programs, have not been comprehensively explored. A 2003 study by National Research Council (NRC) represented first serious effort to apply principles cleanup contaminated sites, with specific attention Navy facilities under Resource Conservation Recovery Act, state regulatory statutes (NRC 2003; NRC et al. 2003). This chapter examines Superfund a whole, including privately owned sites that predominate within universe. It elaborates management, explains how these might work legal policy framework explores their implications managing individual well administering entire inventory sites. In process, it sheds further light on potential usefulness was developed complex ecosystems, program dealing local site contamination largely urban settings.