Technology selection in brownfields redevelopment

Sustainable, redevelopments of contaminated "brownfields" properties offer many economic and social benefits. However, due to the uncertainties of potential clean up cost, the practicality of available technologies, time constraints, community concerns, as well as additional costs associated with development of brownfields sites, many developers forgo brownfields development. These same uncertainties cause lending institutions to hesitate in making loans for development of projects proposed for contaminated sites. The goal of this paper is to provide a general decision making model that can be utilized in the technology selection for decision makers on proposed brownfields site clean ups. A hierarchical decision model with pairwise comparison was selected to develop the general decision making model