| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Conference Organising Committee | |
| Keynote address: Brownfield sites in perspective | p. 3 |
| Setting objectives and monitoring for ecological restoration and habitat creation | p. 7 |
| The Bush Farm experiment 15 years on: Recovery in soil and agricultural quality | p. 13 |
| Indicators of reclamation success - Recovery patterns of soil biological activity compared to remote sensing of vegetation | p. 21 |
| The roles of standards and biosolids in land reclamation | p. 25 |
| Where there is muck, there is gold! Encouraging private investment in derelict and contaminated land | p. 31 |
| The British land reclamation project | p. 37 |
| Market led reclamation at Pride Park, Derby | p. 43 |
| Fifteen years of use of bioengineering in landfill reclamation in North Italy | p. 55 |
| The Mersey Forest and Red Rose Forest Landfill Woodlands Project | p. 65 |
| Reducing the effects of gas control systems on after-uses of landfills | p. 73 |
| The use of biosolids in the restoration of Town Lane Landfill, Southport | p. 83 |
| Oakdale Strategic Development Site | p. 89 |
| Island Site, Nottingham: A case study | p. 95 |
| Bowmans Harbour: A case study in environmental monitoring of a complex urban reclamation project | p. 101 |
| Forestry on reclaimed land | p. 113 |
| Planting Nottinghamshire's colliery spoil heaps | p. 117 |
| Practical experience of growing trees on derelict and contaminated sites | p. 125 |
| Re-creation of heathland habitats in the China Clay mining area of Cornwall | p. 131 |
| Ecosystem development on tailings at Kidston Gold Mine, North Queensland, Australia | p. 137 |
| Sustainable habitat creation in Nottingham on a former industrial site | p. 143 |
| Nabarlek uranium mine: A unique example of mine decommissioning and rehabilitation | p. 157 |
| New regulation - New opportunity: The Environment Act 1995 Section 57, contaminated land provisions | p. 165 |
| Land restoration using an ecologically informed and participative approach | p. 171 |
| Ecology of post-mining landscapes in the Lusatian lignite mining district, Germany | p. 187 |
| Revegetation of historic high altitude mining wastes in the Western United States | p. 193 |
| Sustainable redevelopment: Incorporation into project design | p. 201 |
| Reclamation of the Durham coast | p. 209 |
| Risk management strategies | p. 219 |
| The Glasshoughton regeneration project | p. 227 |
| Nitrogen loss from a soil restored after surface mining | p. 235 |
| Soil solution composition and element cycling as indicators of ecosystem development along a chronosequence of post-lignite mining sites in Lusatia/Germany | p. 241 |
| Topsoil management and long-term reclamation success at Weipa, north Queensland, Australia | p. 249 |
| Drax Power Station - Barlow ash mound | p. 255 |
| Soil fauna in an artificial soil mix | p. 263 |
| Reclamation of Pb/Zn smelter wastes in Upper Silesia, Poland | p. 269 |
| Soil compaction alleviation on restored sites | p. 277 |
| The restoration of soils in opencast coal plantations in Derbyshire | p. 287 |
| Transformation of an old coal pit into a wetland educational park | p. 299 |
| Industrial archaeological aspects of land reclamation in the UK | p. 305 |
| The development of a rehabilitation program designed to restore a jarrah forest ecosystem following bauxite mining in south-western Australia | p. 315 |
| The role of the mineral planning system in England in achieving the reclamation of mineral workings | p. 329 |
| From green cover to something more - The development of principles and practice in land reclamation | p. 339 |
| After-use options for reclaimed land - A land suitability approach | p. 351 |
| Making the coalfields a green and pleasant land | p. 361 |
| Land reclamation practices and research in New Zealand | p. 365 |
| A method for visualising and modelling geological data in three dimensions | p. 377 |
| Active containment systems incorporating modified pillared clays | p. 387 |
| Remediation of contaminated by-products generated from former chemical works | p. 395 |
| Establishing good practice for contaminated land remediation | p. 405 |
| International networks for contaminated land | p. 413 |
| Rehabilitation guidelines - A systematic approach to mine waste management in China | p. 425 |
| Sustainable results for mined land reclamation using bactericide remediation technologies | p. 437 |
| Reclamation of the Panna Maria uranium mill site: A case history | p. 443 |
| Biological aspect of soda wastes decanters reclamation in the former Krakow Soda Plant 'Solvay' | p. 451 |
| Field trials for evaluation of remedial technologies for chromium-contaminated soils in Glasgow | p. 457 |
| Case study: Reclamation of the Agecroft Western Tip, Salford | p. 465 |
| The application of materials recovery and soils washing to a former gas works | p. 473 |
| Engineering the water environment | p. 485 |
| Lagoon and reed-bed treatment of colliery shale tip water at Dodworth | p. 491 |
| Minewater treatment in Neath and Port Talbot | p. 497 |
| Reclamation systems as water quality control in radioactive pollution zones | p. 509 |
| Leadhills, Scotland - Flood and pollution threat from disused lead workings | p. 517 |
| Centre for mined land rehabilitation: Research solutions for the Australian mining industry | p. 527 |
| Completion criteria for Alcoa's bauxite mining rehabilitation | p. 528 |
| Earthworms as agents in soil restoration: The UK experience to date | p. 529 |
| Reclamation to Heathland and Moor - Scientific and development studies in Northern England | p. 530 |
| Nutrient cycling in ungrazed pastures: Long-term problems for rehabilitated open-cut coal mines in Central Queensland, Australia | p. 531 |
| The construction of an ultra lightweight low permeability cap to a chemical slurry landfill at Bampton, Devon | p. 532 |
| The remediation of the Griffiths Park Landfill, Lostock Gralam, Northwich, Chester | p. 533 |
| Successful and sustainable restoration of pyritic colliery wastes to woodland | p. 534 |
| Trees and woodlands: Working with the resource | p. 536 |
| The development of tree plantations on restored opencast coal sites in Derbyshire | p. 537 |
| New land for old: Remediation of a former laundry facility in West Germany | p. 538 |
| Reducing the need for future land reclamation through sustainable business practices | p. 539 |
| Potential forages for areas irrigated with gypsiferous water | p. 540 |
| Biomass production in Derbyshire | p. 541 |
| Helping to create the National Forest | p. 542 |
| Woodland and recreational facilities in the potteries | p. 543 |
| Visualisation techniques for site remediation | p. 544 |
| Crop establishment on a London Clay landfill covering | p. 545 |
| High-resolution geochemical mapping of the rural and urban environment: A baseline data set for the next millennium | p. 546 |
| Author index | p. 547 |
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