From that
point onward, the paper describes how the environmental legislation
came into being and has been steadily growing ever since then, both
in terms of becoming more stringent and holistic. The paper next
considers the links between the environmental legislation with risk
assessment, and the significance of baseline studies in risk assessments.
In addition, the paper commences the review of literature
from a broad prospective covering various business fields, both
environment-related and non-environment-related (e.g. insurance
and construction management sectors). Then the paper narrows the
review down to contaminated land in which landfills are deemed as a
specific type of land contamination. After this, the paper then further
narrows down the focus on to the main issue in this study which is land-
fill leachate.