Legislation, Technology and Practice of Mine Land Reclamation

Legislation, Technology and Practice of Mine Land Reclamation
Author: Zhenqi Hu
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 686
Release: 2014-09-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1138027243

Legislation, Technology and Practice of Mine Land Reclamation contains the proceedings of the Beijing International Symposium on Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration (LRER 2014, Beijing, China, 16-19 October 2014). The contributions cover a wide range of topics: - Monitoring, prediction and assessment of environmental damage in mining areas - Subsidence land reclamation and ecological restoration - Soil, vegetation and biological diversity - Mining methods and measures for minimization of land and environmental damage - Solid wastes and AMD treatment - Contaminated land remediation - Land reclamation and ecological restoration policies and management - Surface mined land reclamation and ecological restoration - Case study on mining reclamation and ecological restoration Legislation, Technology and Practice of Mine Land Reclamation will be of interest to engineers, scientists, consultants, government officials and students involved in environmental engineering, soil science, ecology, forestry, mining, and land reclamation and ecological restoration in mining areas.

Water and American Government

Water and American Government
Author: Donald J. Pisani
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2002-12-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520230302

Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States, shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest groups and the federal system of governance itself.