Publications related to Brownfield land

Quartiers rhodaniens en transition

Over the course of history, the relationship between cities and their waters has shown different gradients of interweaving, marked by cycles of bonding and distancing. Following a period of complete neglect of urban watercourses, the versatile, multifacete ...

EPFL2024

Biochar and environmental sustainability: Emerging trends and techno-economic perspectives

Edgard Gnansounou

Environmental pollutants including emerging contaminants are a growing concern worldwide. Organic wastes, such as food waste, compost, animal manure, crop residues, and sludge are generally used as feedstock. The conventional treatment methodologies (prima ...

Elsevier2021

Role of Iron Sulfide Phases in the Stability of Noncrystalline Tetravalent Uranium in Sediments

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Luca Loreggian

Uranium (U) in situ bioremediation has been investigated as a cost-effective strategy to tackle U contamination in the subsurface. While uraninite was believed to be the only product of bioreduction, numerous studies have revealed that noncrystalline U(IV) ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Implementation of a sustainability monitoring tool into the dynamics of an urban brownfield regeneration project

Martine Laprise, Emmanuel Rey

Within the context of post-industrial European cities, the regeneration of urban brownfields contributes to limit urban sprawl by increasing cities density while revitalizing neighborhoods. Yet because of their complex nature, urban brownfields regeneratio ...

2019

Effect of Aging on the Stability of Microbially Reduced Uranium in Natural Sediment

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Barbora Bártová, Yuheng Wang, Luca Loreggian, Sophie Louise Bretagne, Agnès Novotny

Reductive immobilization of uranium has been explored as a remediation strategy for the U-contaminated subsurface. Via the in situ biostimulation of microbial processes, hexavalent U is reduced to less soluble tetravalent species, which are immobilized wit ...

2019

Occurrence and ecological determinants of the contamination of floodplain wetlands with Klebsiella pneumoniae and pathogenic or antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli

François Gillet, Charles Pierre Roger Henriot

The survival and multiplication of human pathogenic and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in ecosystems is of increasing concern but has been little explored. Wetlands can be contaminated by water fluxes from rivers and may present environmental conditions lea ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2019

An operational monitoring tool facilitating the transformation of urban brownfields into sustainable neighborhoods

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise, Emmanuel Rey

The regeneration of urban brownfields is a relevant strategy to limit the sprawling of post-industrial European cities. However, the integration of sustainability issues in urban brownfield regeneration projects is not a spontaneous process, remaining in m ...

2018

SIPRIUS+ : A sustainability monitoring tool specifically designed for urban brownfields regeneration projects

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise, Emmanuel Rey

One of the relevant strategies to limit the sprawl of post-industrial European cities is the regeneration of urban brownfields. This type of projects concentrates new development within already urbanized areas and contributes to their revitalization. Despi ...

2017

Phytoremediation of soils contaminated by organic compounds: hype, hope and facts

Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel

The present opinion paper is focused on the phytoremediation of organic pollutants and is based on the lectures given by the author during the International Congress of Phytoremediation of Polluted Soils, held at Vigo, Spain, 29-30 July 2014. The aim of th ...

Springer Verlag2017

Monitoring opérationnel pour l'intégration des enjeux de durabilité aux projets de régénération de friches urbaines

Martine Laprise

In a context where the territorial development stakeholders seek to limit urban sprawl, urban brownfields represent an important potential: their regeneration allows an increased density within the existing built fabric and a revitalization at the neighbor ...

EPFL2017

Metal Distribution and Characterization of Cultivable Lead-Resistant Bacteria in Shooting Range Soils

Aline Sondra Adler

Shooting ranges represent about 10% of polluted sites in Switzerland. This pollution, mainly consisting of lead (Pb) and antimony (Sb), can spread into the local groundwater, wildlife and plants. In this study, shooting range stop butt soils (elevated soil ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2016

The influence of bottom boundary layer hydrodynamics on sediment focusing in a contaminated bay

Damien Bouffard

Understanding the dynamics and fate of particle bound contaminants is important for mitigating potential environmental, economic and health impacts linked to their presence. Vidy Bay, Lake Geneva (Switzerland), is contaminated due to the outfall and overfl ...

Springer Heidelberg2016

Environmental Mineralogy: New challenges, new materials

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani

The close links between mineralogy and materials science are leading to major developments in how society deals more effectively with energy and environmental challenges. The fast expanding field of "environmental mineralogy" helps mitigate major environme ...

Mineralogical Soc Amer2015

Strategic Integration of Operational Assessment into the Transformation of Urban Wastelands to Sustainable Neighborhoods

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise, Emmanuel Rey

It is now common knowledge, the regeneration of previously developed sites in urban areas can have positive impacts on the environment, the economy and the society as they constitute opportunities for the densification of the existing built fabric. In the ...

2014

Beam-induced oxidation of monomeric U(IV) species

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Benjamin Uster, Camelia Borca, Daniel Scott Alessi

Uranium L-III-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy is often used to probe the oxidation state and coordination of uranium in environmental samples, and micrometre-sized beams can be used to spatially map the distribution of uranium relative to other elements ...

International Union of Crystallography2013

Metal accumulation and response of antioxidant enzymes in seedlings and adult sunflower mutants with improved metal removal traits on a metal-contaminated soil

Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel, Erika Nehnevajova

Sunflower mutant lines with an enhanced tolerance and metal accumulation capacity obtained by mutation breeding have been proposed for Zn, Cd and Cu removal from metal-contaminated soils in previous studies. However, soils contaminated with trace elements ...

Elsevier2012

Ecology and Biogeography of Bacterial Communities Associated with Chloroethene-Contaminated Aquifers

Christof Holliger, Pierre Rossi, Noam Shani

Massive usage, along with careless handling, storage, spills, and leakages made chloroethenes (CEs) one of the most abundant classes of groundwater contaminants. Anaerobic organohalide respiring bacteria (OHRB) can couple reductive dechlorination of CEs wi ...

Frontiers Media SA2012

Analysis of acidity production during enhanced reductive dechlorination using a simplified reactive transport model

David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Clare Robinson

Build-up of fermentation products and hydrochloric acid at a contaminated site undergoing enhanced reductive dechlorination can result in groundwater acidification. Sub-optimal pH conditions can inhibit microbial activity and lead to reduced dechlorination ...

Elsevier2012