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摘要

One of the first efforts in the short history of the current brownfield movement to reclaim the disused industrial environment at a regional scale, Emscher Park in the northern Ruhr district of Germany leaves most of its 10,000 hectares of industrial wasteland, spoil tips, dumps and contaminated ground contaminated. As part of its Leftover Land project, large tracts of industrial wasteland are left to the devices of nature; they are simply recategorised as woods so that the Forest Administration will oversee their care and appropriate use.