Restoration and Sustainable Development of Mine-Affected Soils and Degraded Lands: Advances for Natural Resources Conservation and Land Sustainability delves into the latest advancements in sustainable post-mining land development. This comprehensive volume begins by assessing environmental legacies from mining activities, considering their impacts on different environmental spheres such as the pedosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. It explores the interconnections between these spheres and the material fluxes that result from mining interventions, offering in-depth analysis for professionals in the field. The book also discusses the prediction and analysis of environmental benefits and challenges related to mine closures and the transition to renewable energy.
It includes social and economic opportunities and obstacles of mine closure and the phasing out of coal, viewed from regional, national, and global standpoints. Management approaches are examined, considering environmental, socio-economic, and political challenges, drawing insights from successful experiences and lessons learned. Finally, the connection between soil and human health in mine-affected areas is analyzed, providing a valuable resource for mining engineers, soil scientists, and environmental resource managers.
Section 1: Introductory
1. Scientific and practical principles of reclamation of disturbed soils
2. Smart Solutions for Sustainable Development: Approaches in Land Rehabilitation
3. Towards environmental sustainability: the impact of mining activity on land
4. Soils as a key node of the Resource Nexus in post-mining regions
5. Mining Sustainability. A Reality in Arid Zones
Section 2: Technosols
6. Organic wastes characteristics and their implications in mining restoration and Technosols making
7. Mining area technosols: sustainable tools as carbon sinks
8. The concept for the Kizel Coal Basin remediation
9. Design and development of the optimal artificial soil cover for rehabilitation of mining waste deposits
Section 3: Soil-plant system
10. Environmental sustainability strategies using nature-based technology approaches
11. Mining activities effects on the soil-plant system
12. Application of thermally treated rice for mitigation of As transportation in the soil-plant system
13. Spatial effect on the greening of industrially polluted soils using native species in the Subarctic
Section 4: Geographical distribution of case studies
14. Sustainable development of mine-affected soils and degraded land in Cartagena, Southeast Spain
15. Degraded lands of Sardinia (Italy), with particular reference to abandoned mine areas
16. Land degradation, conservation, and sustainability of natural resources in the Alpine fringe, Northern Italy
17. Sustainable land reclamation of mining affected sites in Poland with special focus on Upper Silesia Region
18. Overview of historical metal(loid) ore mining sites in the Sudetes (SW Poland) and the status of their reclamation.
19. Quarries and open pits produced by mining of rock raw materials as the sites of nature protection in Poland - selected examples
20. Integrated environmental impact assessment of mining industry: A case of former Altai Mining and Processing Plant, Russia
21. Sustainability Nexus approaches in environmental assessment and the rehabilitation of mining regions in Mongolia
Section 5: Concluding chapter
22. Soils and human health in mine-affected area
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