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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.

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.

Supplementary Report 1(SR1) of the SuRF-UK Framework: A general Approach to Sustainability Assessment for Use in Achieving Sustainable Remediation
General guidance on how to carry out a sustainability assessment

Supplementary Report 2 of the SuRF-UK Framework: Selection of Indicators/Criteria for Use in Sustainability Assessment for Achieving Sustainable Remediation (2020)
Guidance on choosing sustainability indicators to use in an assessment

Supplementary Report 2 - Indicators Appendix 1 (2020)
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 

Tier 1 Sustainability Assessment 2021 Final
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Older and withdrawn reports  

 

 

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