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Canada's industrial urban and rural lands or brownfields are redevelopment challenges for local government. "Brownfields are typically littered with abandoned buildings, all sorts of rubbish, leaking tanks, and rusting drums About 30,000 brownfields mar the Canadian landscape" (MacLean's, August 11, 2003). "These sites adversely impact a neighbourhood's image and quality of life, and in some cases pose risks to human health and the environment" (National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, 2003). Canadian communities need to recognize that brownfield redevelopment makes economic, social and environmental sense and to understand that brownfields are a community's assets. Redevelopment or the re-use of these assets is a key component of Sustainable Development and Smart Growth. Canadian communities are at various stages of brownfield redevelopment. Some are not even aware that brownfields exist in their community while others recognize the importance of brownfields redevelopment as an integral part of sustainable community development and have developed innovative policies and incentives for urban revitalization. The majority of Canadian communities, especially the smaller municipalities, need guidance regarding how to get started as well as how to identify and implement effective strategies and programs to support brownfields redevelopment. ...

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