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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.

  • icon Beginner
  • icon Learner
  • icon Practitioner
  • icon Site Owner
  • icon Regulator
  • icon 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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Learner's Guide

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

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To give an overview of principles, awareness and understanding of sustainable remediation.  To help deliver an understanding of remediation in a sustainable way.
Aimed at local authority regulators and anyone performing a regulatory function. 
 
Starting point: View the video animation for an overview of what sustainable remediation is.
 
 
Key Reading:
 
Debunking Myths about Sustainable Remediation. Smith J.W.N., 2019.  Volume 29, issue 2, pages 7-15. Remediation Journal, Open Access. https://doi.org/10.1002/rem.21587
 
 
Further Reading:
A review of the Legal and Regulatory Basis for Sustainable Remediation in the European Union and the United Kingdom : Sustainable Remediation in the EU and UK (claire.co.uk)
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Developing knowledge about sustainable remediation.
Aimed at teachers, researchers and those working in an academic environment
 
Starting point:The video animation above provides a quick overview.
 
 
Key Reading:
 
Selection of Key Journal Papers Journal Papers (claire.co.uk)
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To 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

Framework
&
guidance

SuRF-UK Framework

The key document from 2010 that introduces the SuRF UK approach to sustainable remediation.

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

 

SuRF UK Bulletins

Executing

sustainable
remediation

Sustainable Management Practices Report and Spreadsheet 2021 

Project Framing and Planning a Sustainability Assessment

Tier 1- Qualitative Assessment 

Links to guidance

Tier 2 - Semi-quantitative Assessment
Links to guidance

Tier 3 - Quantitative Assessment
Links to guidance

Supporting
materials

Illustrative Case Studies, reports, information sources
SuRF-UK Case Studies, Journal Papers, SuRF-UK webinar, SuRF-UK animation and SuRF-UK Certificate of Assessment

Older and withdrawn reports