Eco-Restoration of Mine Land (eBook)

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.

Chapter 1: Mine Land and Its Environmental Impacts

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Environmental impacts of mine land and ecological disruption
1.3 Economic valuation of impacts on the environment
1.4 Environment protection and policy implication
1.5 Management and Reclamation
1.6 Progressive Reclamation
1.7 Conclusion

Chapter 2: Soil Contamination, Risk Assessment and Phytoremediation of Mine Land

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Soil contamination
2.3 Risk assessment
2.4 Phytoremediation of mine land
2.5 Conclusion

Chapter 3: Bio-Geotechnologies in Mine Land Restoration

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Potential Approaches for Mine Land Restoration
3.3 Insights and Lessons Learned for the Practice of Mine Land Restoration
3.4 Conclusion

Chapter 4: Carbon Sequestration Potential of Restored Coal Mine Soils

4.1. Introduction
4.2 Generation and management of mine waste
4.3 Carbon sequestration in reclaimed mine soils
4.4 Carbon fractionation: Importance and challenges in coal mining areas
4.5 Carbon indices
4.6 Mine soil amendments
4.7 Carbon sequestration in revegetated coal mine soils: a chronosequence approach
4.8 Conclusion

Chapter 5: Assessing Mine Restoration Success Using Biological Soil Quality Indicators
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Revegetation of mine lands
5.3 Reclaimed mine soil quality indicators
5.4 Development and use of soil quality
indices
5.5 Conclusion

Chapter 6: Ecosystem Services on Restored Mine Land
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Rehabilitated mine land
6.3 Ecosystem services on rehabilitated coal mine land
6.4 Restored mine land and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
6.5 Important case studies of mine restoration
6.6 Policy restructuring for fusing circular economy and mine land restoration
6.7 Conclusion