SuRF UK
SuRF-UK is the United Kingdom’s Sustainable Remediation Forum – an initiative set up to progress the UK understanding of sustainable remediation and sustainable land management. SuRF-UK is also a member of International Sustainable Remediation Alliance (ISRA). SuRF- UK helps you understand how sustainable development can be applied to remediation.
Choose a role to find a pathway through the information available, or find what you need in the Roadmap below.
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Learner
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Practitioner
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Site Owner
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Regulator
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Academic
Beginner's Guide
Learn the key principles about Sustainable Remediation with a simple introduction to sustainable remediation.
Aimed at someone new to sustainability / sustainable remediation who wants or needs to understand in a basic way what it means and why and how they should do it.
Starting point: View the video animation for an overview of what sustainable remediation is.
Read SuRF Bulletin 7 - Introduction to Sustainable Remediation
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Developing knowledge about sustainable remediation.
Aimed at someone who has a basic understanding but needs to know more about what it involves, why it could be useful for them and how to implement it.
Starting point: The video animation above provides a quick overview.
Key Reading:
Debunking the Myths about Sustainable Remediation (External PDF download)
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Practitioner's Guide
Guidance and tools to help you carry out a sustainable remediation or a sustainability appraisal.
Aimed at someone looking to implement simple management practices or who intends to carry out a sustainability appraisal.
Starting point: View the video animation for an overview of what sustainable remediation is.
The framework document sets out why sustainability issues associated with remediation needs to be factored in right from the outset of a project.
Key Reading:
Sustainable Management Practices for Management of Land Contamination
Read MoreStarting point: View the video animation for an overview of what sustainable remediation is
Key Reading:
Concawe Sustainable Remediation Case Studies
Read MoreTo navigate through the SuRF-UK web pages, please hover over the relevant section that you require on the road map and short cuts will direct you to the relevant page, alternatively navigate using the articles index to the right.
Roadmap
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Framework |
The key document from 2010 that introduces the SuRF UK approach to sustainable remediation. |
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General guidance on how to carry out a sustainability assessment
Guidance on choosing sustainability indicators to use in an assessment
A spreadsheet containing a list of potential sustainability indicators. Also shows where each might link to other indicators and how they connect to the UN SDGs
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Executing sustainable |
Sustainable Management Practices Report and Spreadsheet 2021 |
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Tier 2 - Semi-quantitative Assessment |
Tier 3 - Quantitative Assessment |
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Supporting |
Illustrative Case Studies, reports, information sources |
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