ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT Soil and groundwater contamination has become a problem of multifaceted complexity in the United States and in many other parts of the industrialized world. This paper presents and analyzes integrated approaches to the solution of the two fundamental problems, namely the reduction of the amount of contamination entering the subsurface environment and the clean-up of existing contaminatd sites. Several components of integrated approaches such as education and training, research and technology development, public awareness and education, legal, regulatory and compliance issues, international cooperation and social-economic impacts are discussed and their importance and interrelationships are analyzed.
