Eco-Restoration of Mine Land

ISBN-13: 9781119872252 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 300 str.

Pandey

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Mine Land and Its Environmental Impacts1.1 Introduction1.2 Environmental impacts of mine land and ecological disruption1.3 Economic valuation of impacts on the environment1.4 Environment protection and policy implication1.5 Management and Reclamation1.6 Progressive Reclamation1.7 ConclusionChapter 2: Soil Contamination, Risk Assessment and Phytoremediation of Mine Land2.1 Introduction2.2 Soil contamination2.3 Risk assessment2.4 Phytoremediation of mine land2.5 ConclusionChapter 3: Bio-Geotechnologies in Mine Land Restoration3.1 Introduction3.2 Potential Approaches for Mine Land Restoration3.3 Insights and Lessons Learned for the Practice of Mine Land Restoration3.4 ConclusionChapter 4: Carbon Sequestration Potential of Restored Coal Mine Soils4.1. Introduction4.2 Generation and management of mine waste4.3 Carbon sequestration in reclaimed mine soils4.4 Carbon fractionation: Importance and challenges in coal mining areas4.5 Carbon indices4.6 Mine soil amendments4.7 Carbon sequestration in revegetated coal mine soils: a chronosequence approach4.8 ConclusionChapter 5: Assessing Mine Restoration Success Using Biological Soil Quality Indicators5.1 Introduction5.2 Revegetation of mine lands5.3 Reclaimed mine soil quality indicators5.4 Development and use of soil quality indices5.5 ConclusionChapter 6: Ecosystem Services on Restored Mine Land6.1 Introduction6.2 Rehabilitated mine land6.3 Ecosystem services on rehabilitated coal mine land6.4 Restored mine land and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals6.5 Important case studies of mine restoration6.6 Policy restructuring for fusing circular economy and mine land restoration6.7 Conclusion

O autorze

Vimal Chandra Pandey, PhD, Department of Environmental Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India.Jitendra Ahirwal, PhD, Department of Forestry, Mizoram University, Aizawl, India.Roopali Roychowdhury, PhD, Department of Biotechnology, Techno India University, Kolkata, India.Ritu Chaturvedi, PhD, Department of Botany, St. John's College, Agra, India.