Assessment And Reclamation Of Contaminated Land -- Contents -- The Extent of Contaminated Land Problems and the Scientific Response -- 1 The Origins of Contaminated Land Problems -- 2 The Extent of the Challenge -- 3 Developments in the Science Base -- 4 Conclusions -- 5 Acknowledgements -- The New UK Contaminated Land Regime -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Context for Part IIA -- 3 The Part IIA System -- 4 Dealing with 'Risk' -- 5 Making People Pay -- 6 Part IIA as a 'Regulatory System' -- 7 The State of Play -- 8 What Next? -- Identifying and Dealing with Contaminated Land -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Site Assessment -- 3 Risk Management -- 4 Measurement of Site Contamination -- 5 Conclusions -- Contaminated Land and the Link with Health -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Exposure -- 3 Health Studies -- 4 Case Studies -- 5 Conclusion -- Human Health Risk Assessment: Guideline Values and Magic Numbers -- 1 Land Contamination Policy -- 2 Risk Assessment -- 3 What Is a Guideline Value? -- 4 The Use of Guideline Values -- 5 The CLEA Model -- 6 The SNIFFER Framework -- 7 Conclusions -- 8 Acknowledgements -- Ecological Risk Assessment under the New Contaminated Land Regime -- 1 Background and Legal Context -- 2 Harm to Ecological Receptors -- 3 General Approach to the Assessment of Land Under the New Regime -- 4 Assessing Whether Significant Harm to Ecological Receptors Is Occurring -- 5 Assessing the Possibility of Significant Harm Occurring -- 6 The Environment Agency's Suggested Approach -- 7 Guideline Values -- 8 Comments and Discussion -- Remediation Methods for Contaminated Sites -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Summary of Remediation Approaches -- 3 Selected Innovative Approaches -- 4 Summary and Conclusions -- Legal Liabilities and Insurance Aspects of Contaminated Land -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Contaminated Land -- 3 Statutory Provisions in the UK -- 4 Sale of Land/Businesses.

5 Principles of Insurance -- 6 History of Environmental Insurance -- 7 Land Owners and Environmental Liabilities -- 8 Pollution Liabilities for Contaminated Land Sites -- 9 Current Manufacturing Activities -- 10 Environmental Insurance -- 11 Environmental Consultants -- 12 Collateral Warranties -- 13 Contractors -- 14 An Example -- 15 Conclusion -- Subject Index.