Issues of Legal Regulation of Mining Land Reclamation

Reclamation on Land Disturbed by Surface Mining in Romania

Within the Oltenia surface mining region of Romania, 14,890 ha have been disturbed and only 1,002 ha have been reclaimed. The majority of this disturbance has involved agricultural land (12,208 ha), of which only a small amount has been reclaimed (552 ha). Forest land disturbed by surface mining in this region amounted to 2,682 ha, of which only 450 ha have been reclaimed. Therefore, huge land ...

The Necessity for Development of Land Reclamation

1. Development cycles of methods of complex reclamation regulation. 1.1. Kinds of land reclamation 2. Principles of mathematical models for optimizing environmental conditions of plants and edaphic biota 2.1. General representation of curves of environmental requirements of plants 2.2. Theoretical principles of deriving the dependence between the requirements of plants and soil conditions 3. Ma...

Vetiver System for Land Reclamation

Land degradation is becoming one of the severest environmental issues in the world, especially in developing nations. Land degradation, usually accompanied by soil erosion, always results in a decrease or complete loss of land productivity, and produces on-site and off-site pollution to soil and water. The methods for land reclamation are various, including physical, chemical and biological. Th...

Land Disturbance and Reclamation of Peat Extraction

Legal and Technical Issues of Privacy Preservation in Data Mining

Wittgenstein once stated that Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic. The development of data mining has the capacity to compromise privacy in ways not previously possible, an issue not only exacerbated through inaccurate data and ethical abuse but also by a lagging legal framework which struggles, at times, to catch up with technological innovation. This chapter explores these iss...