NORDROCS 2016 10th anniversary 6th Joint Nordic Meeting Sponsors: on Remediation of Contaminated Sites Program Short Papers Abstracts We look forward to exciting days in Stockholm! 5-8 September, Aalto-University,1 Espoo, Finland NORDIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jaana Sorvari, Associate Professor, Aalto University, School of Engineering Peter Harms-Ringdahl, M.Sc., Environmental Consultant, Orbicon AB Arne Rokkjær, M.Sc. (Eng), The Capital Region of Denmark Steinar Sæland, M.Sc., Multiconsult ASA Assisting organizing committee Kim Yrjälä, University of Helsinki, board member of MUTKU ry Lisbeth Verner, Secretary of ATV Soil and Groundwater Paul S. Cappelen, NGI Johanna Jalonen, Ramboll Finland REVIEW COMMITTEE Jenny Norrman, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Division of Geo-Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Mette Christophersen, Ph.D., Head of Department, Ramboll, Denmark Håkan Rosqvist, Ph.D., Head of Department & Innovation manager, Department Geo- Environment & Groundwater, Tyréns AB, Sweden Jussi Kuusola , M.Sc., Awillas Oy, Finland, board member of MUTKU ry, Finland Mette M. Broholm, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Paul S. Cappelen, M.Sc., Section Head, Environmental Engineering department, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Norway Morten Jartun, Ph.D., Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Norway Kim Yrjälä, Adjunct Professor, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, board member of MUTKU ry, Finland NORDROCS 2016 is arranged by: www.atv-jord-grundvand.dk www.mutku.fi Secretariat: [email protected] MILJØRINGEN NETTVERK FOR FORURENSET GRUNN OG SEDIMENTER www.renaremark.se www.miljoringen.no www.nordrocs.org2 Short Papers and Abstracts 23 Short Papers and Short Papers Abstracts • Tuesday 6.9.2016 Tuesday • 24 Notes Short Papers and Short Papers Abstracts • Tuesday 6.9.2016 Tuesday • Session A Circular Economy Keynote Speaker: Circular economy –"When others see an end, we see a beginning!"- Pär Larshans, Chief sustainability officer, Ragn - Sells, Sweden Eco-innovative SMEs as facilitators in circular economy transitions towards sustainable mitigation of contaminated sites risks - Jarno Laitinen, Doranova, FIinland Implementing the concept of circular economy by long term land use planning in West-Harbour, Finland - Kimmo Järvinen, Ramboll, Finland Keynote by Pär Lashans: Circular economy –"When others see an end, we see a beginning!" The driving force behind urbanization and change in demographics and living standards will have a huge impact on how cites expand in the 20 years to come. Restoring land areas while transferring the society into a fully functional circular economy needs to be complemented with a detox step in preventing that the circular model spreads toxin back into society. The need of long term planning with procurements that allows innovations must also have a society that strives for partnership. In this landfills will be our next circular station NOT an end station. 25 Short Papers and Short Papers ECO-INNOVATIVE SMES AS FACILITATORS IN CIRCULAR ECONOMY TRANSITION TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF CONTAMINATED SITES RISKS Laitinen, Jarno Abstracts Pirkanmaan ELY-keskus, Finland [email protected] • Tuesday 6.9.2016 Tuesday • Abstract Circular economy represents a new narrative built upon the promise to solve both ecological and economic problems, framing increased ecological resilience and social change beneficial for business and thus for the economy and society at large. In the past years, eco-innovative SMEs and circular businesses have been the key contributors addressing ecological issues from both the perspective of economy and society. This presentation expands the concepts of circular economy to contaminated sites remediation and discusses how eco-innovative SMEs and new circular business models can facilitate a transition towards more sustainable mitigation of contaminated sites risks. The transition is explored by a pathway oriented scenario analysis using the Transition Space Matrix model. The analysis focuses on a systemic transformation, hence the focus is in the 34 year timeframe of 2016 – 2050. Introduction There is an increasing support among policy-makers and researchers for the notion raised under the banner of sustainability, that transition to a resource wise and low carbon economy, by circular or green economy is needed in the near future. These new narratives promise to solve both ecological and economic problems, and frame increased ecological resilience and social change beneficial for business and thus for the economy and society at large. By perceiving circular or green economy as means to an end - not the end itself, we can focus on transition as a process. Ecologists and economists have traditionally conceptualized transitions as changes from one position to another, but broader conceptualization of transitions in the context of systems has received increasing attention over the past years (e.g. Bergh et al., 2011). Systems in general are entities comprising of various interacting elements. Most well-known (though ambiguously) approaches to systems are the ecosystem and the financial system. More appropriate models originate from technology and economics, namely large technical systems, sectoral systems, technological innovation systems, and socio-technical systems (Geels & Kemp, 2007). Whereas the former focus primarily on innovation as means for businesses and industry to achieve competitiveness and economic growth, socio-technical systems are first and foremost interested in how new practices of production and use emerge and retain in society (Bergh et al., 2011; Coenen & Lopez, 2010.) In the socio-technical context, transition is seen as a set of processes that lead to far-reaching fundamental changes in large systems like energy, transportation, construction, agriculture or water supply. These changes involve a broad range of actors and typically unfold over considerable time- spans. In the course of such a transition, new products, services, business models, and organizations emerge, partly complementing and partly substituting existing ones. Not only do the technological and institutional structures change, but also the perceptions of consumers regarding what constitutes a particular service (or technology) is transformed. In the specific context of socio-technical systems 26 Short Papers and Short Papers transition towards sustainable development, it is often called in short sustainability transition (Bergh et al., 2011; Markard et al., 2012; Jorgensen, 2012.). Materials and Methods Abstracts To evaluate sustainability transitions towards circular economy in contaminated sites risk management transition space matrix (TSM) is used. The tool allows to model and explore how large socio-technical systems transition towards more sustainable. It models reality by applying the multi-layer perspective (MPL), which is a framework to explain the hierarchy and dynamics of socio-technical systems (Geels, 6.9.2016 Tuesday • 2010). The transition within MPL is analyzed and explored by double flow scenario (DFS), which is an iterative tool combining forecasting and backcasting (Gaziolusyou et al., 2011). The MLP is a systemic model of three inter-connected levels of socio technical systems that are defined by the metaphorical notions of ‘landscape’, ‘regime’ and ‘niche’, which implicitly links between macro-, meso- and micro-level theories well known to economic and sociological definitions of hierarchy. The landscape consists of slow changing external factors providing gradients, regimes account for stability of existing technology and niches for the generation and development of (radical) innovations. (Geels, 2001; Jorgensen, 2012) The DFS combines both front- and backcasting. Forecasting is a method that describes the present and develops future narratives based on this, whereas backcasting develops a vision and ‘backcasts’ the narrative to the present. In the model time is divided to present, mid- and long-term. Present describes today (reality) based on historical data and forms the baseline of the analysis. Long-term describes the shared vision (goals and targets) of the aspired future states and mid-term forms the core of analysis. This in-between is where the transition actualizes. The TSM is constructed by combining the MLP and DFS to a 3 x 3 matrix, where the rows represent the hierarchical structure of the MLP landscape, regimes and niches and the columns the DFS division of present, mid-term and long-term. Results The analytical model is built on four stages, namely (1) Baseline, in which the environment, concepts and key driving forces are identified; (2) Vision, in which the goals and targets are envisioned; (3) Transition, in which the baseline and the vision are integrated in the TSM; and (4) Roadmap, in which the identified transition seeds, pathways and obstacles are transformed into a roadmap. (1) Baseline The Finnish national register holds information on over 25 000 potentially contaminated sites of which over 15 000 are not sufficiently investigated to define whether they are contaminated, and is there need for risk management activities. Currently it is estimated that over 11 000 sites will require remediation (SYKE, 2013). The existing volume of contaminated sites remediation is between 250-300 sites per year and average costs of investigation and remediation per site is expected at EUR 200