The main purpose of this paper was to outline a novel approach for the use industrial by-products generated in coal mines and coal-fired power plants as components artificial soils. Several combustion by-products, mine waste organic materials were tested at laboratory scale reclamation areas degraded by mining activity. role soils land rehabilitation high acidic heap. results revealed that amou...

As the province most abundant in mineral resources China, Inner Mongolia has more than 200 open-pit coal mines. The mining activities seriously hinder sustainable use of regional land and improvement residents’ wellbeing. Taking 13 typical mines as study area, combining remote sensing images Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, trend features spatial temporal evolution landscape patterns from 20...

Reclamation of abandoned farmland is crucial to a sustainable agriculture in arid regions. This study aims to evaluate the impact of different reclamation treatments on abandoned salinized farmland. We investigated four artificial reclamation treatments, continuous cotton (CC), continuous alfalfa (CA), tree-wheat intercropping (TW) and trees (TS), which were conducted in 2011–2012 in the Manasi...

Coal mining is one of economic sector that requires forestry area in Indonesia. Most coal concession are loan use from the government and during operation facing with acid mine drainage (AMD). AMD passive treatment can be integrated revegetation process related better handling overburden (OB) potential forming (PAF) reclamation processed. The most expensive methods uncertainty quick lime AMD. D...

The increase in the energy requirement of a country shows its economic advancement. Coal mining activity has increased considerably to compensate for requirements. As result, open-cast coal methods induced drastic change land use and seriously jeopardized sustainability ecosystem. Once disrupted by or underground mining, condition cannot be entirely recovered, making it non-renewable asset envi...

The Mid-eastern Inner Mongolia of China, a typical agro-pastoral transitional zone, has undergone rapid agricultural land use changes including land reclamation and cropland abandonment in past decades due to growing population and food demand, climatic variability, and land use policy such as the "Grain for Green" Project (GFG Project). It is significant to the regional ecology and sustainabil...

In this paper the reclamation and reuse of municipal secondary effluents, as well as the reclamation and recycling of refinery secondary effluents, are technically and economically evaluated. It is shown that both practices are feasible and sustainable, and that the reclamation costs depend largely on specific circumstances such as legal requirements, price policy, reuse application, raw water ...

Farmland protection and food security is highly focused on in China. However, coal mining has caused negative consequences to cropland coal–crop overlapped areas (COA), especially eastern Thus, revealing the spatiotemporal impact of farmland a large scale crucial for coordinating grainland protection. In this study, Shandong Province, representative coal–grain composite area, was selected as re...