Land Reclamation in Ecological Fragile Areas : Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration (LRER 2017), October 20-23, 2017, Beijing, PR China

"Land Reclamation in Ecological Fragile Areas contains the proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration (LRER 2017, Xi'an, China, 20-23 October 2017). The contributions cover a wide range of topics: Mining impact on environment; Monitoring, prediction and assessment of mining impact on land environment; Mining methods and measurements to minimize the land and environment impact; Mining and reclamation policies, regulations and standard; AMD treatment; Soil and landscape reconstruction; Revegetation and biodiversity protection; Subsidence land reclamation and ecological restoration; Surface mined land reclamation and ecological restoration; Solid wastes management, waste dump and tailings pond restoration; Case study; Abandoned mine land reclamation and ecological restoration & ; Contaminated land remediation; Reclaimed land monitoring and evaluation; Land reclamation supervision; Products and industrialization; Education, technology transfer and international cooperation of mine land reclamation; The Belt and Road Initiative" and mine land restoration. Land Reclamation in Ecological Fragile Areas will be of interest to engineers, scientists, consultants, government officials and students in this area."--Provided by publisher Effect of the exploitation of mineral resources on the ecological environment in Jiaozuo -- Maximizing ecological services value of abandoned mine land using integrated simulation models -- Characteristics of runoff coefficient of abandoned mine land using the storm water management model -- Distribution and formation characteristics of karst collapse in major cities of China -- Reclaimed soil PSD and thermal property under machinery compaction -- Bacterial community structure in reclaimed soil filled with coal wastes in different reclamation years -- Research on caving deep ore mining without surface subsidence -- Aggregate stability and organic carbon distribution in reconstruction soil filled with gangue from coal mining areas -- Protection and tourism development of ancient villages in resource-exhausted mining areas-a case study of Mentougou district -- Solid wastes management, waste dump and tailings pond restoration -- Paste technology integrated solutions for effective management of sulfidic mine tailings -- An investigation of surface paste disposal for lead-zinc underground mine tailings -- Ecological restoration of coal mine degraded lands using a grass-legume mixture-a case study from India -- Study on plant selection of a mine park based on ecological restoration theory -- Phytoaccumulation of trace elements by Grevillea pteridifolia Knight growing on iron ore tailings: An implication of phytoremediation -- Characteristics of capillary water rise in coal-fired cinders by lab test -- Ecology analysis of invasive plants after 12 years of natural restoration in karst desertification area -- Old mine dumps recovery: An environmental and techno-economical challenge -- Quantitative study on the soil reconstruction of a root system in the coal resource-concentrated distribution of Shenfu mineral regions Research of the spatial model of land use based on the CA-Markov model -- Analysis on dynamic change of vegetation coverage based on NDVI: A case study of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei -- Research of the comprehensive improvement effectiveness assessment of coal mine subsided land under the ecological civilization -- Evaluation index system and ecological restoration of abandoned quarries -- Experimental investigation of synthetic (top) soils for mine rehabilitation: Column leaching study -- Dynamic monitoring and trend analysis of soil moisture in Shendong mining area based on MODIS -- Regional difference analysis of ecological carrying capacity based on an emergy in Shaanxi province -- Estimation and analysis of the Vegetation Coverage of "Three-North" based on MODIS data -- Research on the relation between soil micromorphology and landuse in loess tableland around Xi'an -- Dynamic monitoring of land desertification in coal mining districts in the north of Shaanxi Province -- Hyperspectral estimation model of plumbum concentration in soil of mining areas based on wavelet transform and random forests -- Quality monitoring and regional differences of ecological restoration in a mining city: A case study of Wu'an City, China -- Surface mined land reclamation and ecological restoration -- Application of a mixture of fly ash and topsoil for rehabilitation in open-pit coal mines in South East Asian countries -- Effect of acid soil properties on soil erosion at a dumping site in an open-pit coal mine, Indonesia -- Trend change of soil nutrients in the green slope of an open pit coal mine dump -- Collaborative efforts towards ecological habitat restoration of a threatened species, Greater Sage-Grouse, in Wyoming, USA -- Technology and application for ecological rehabilitation on self-maintaining vegetation restoration Study on calculating projection deformation of measured length using an amended particle swarm optimization -- Study on the acquisition technology for information on damaged land in coal-mining areas -- Deformation mechanism and support measures of the soft rock roadway in Ronghua coal mine -- Evaluation of the ecological environment in mining areas based on fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method -- Evaluation for land damage in mining areas with a high underground water level based on RS -- Assessing ecological security based on fishnet: A case study of Guiyang City -- The application of classified assignment and power-law models for wound space in quantitative assessments of degraded land -- Preliminary analysis of the geological hazards prediction in the process of coal mining -- The application of mobile GIS in mine land reclamation monitoring -- Object-based change monitoring in mining areas-taking Pingshuo as an example -- Fast surveying and large scale mapping in the mining area of the delta wing -- Study on the limit angle of mining subsidence basin based on the field survey data in the mining area -- Formation mechanisms and characteristics of ground collapse during shallow coal seam mining -- Urban heat island effect of mining cities under mining disturbance: A case study of Wu'an -- Application of fuzzy mathematics and GIS technology in the evaluation of mine environmental restoration -- Ecological footprint and carrying capacity of mining cities: A case study of Wu'an -- Landscape pattern change monitoring and predicting using remote sensing method-taking Jiaozuo as an example -- Monitoring of vegetation coverage by multi-temporal remote sensing images: A case study of Yulin coal mine -- Remote sensing inversion of soil organic carbon in Jining city based on decision tree classification Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Organizers -- Consultative committee of the conference -- Organization committee -- International academic committee -- Members of editorial committee -- Mining and reclamation policies, regulations and standard -- Surface coal mine permit application for successful reclamation, semi-arid shortgrass prairie (Wyoming, USA) -- 40 years of SMCRA: What have we learned in the state of Wyoming -- Risk-profit equilibrium of private capital in the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model of reclamation for coal mine subsidence -- Analysis of influencing factors of land reclamation incentive policies and regulations implemented in a mining area-a case study of Wu'an city -- Integrating green infrastructure strategies in post-mining areas -- Discussion on land reclamation and ecological restoration of mining wasteland based on a public recreation perspective -- A simulation-based framework for estimating probable open-pit mine closure time and cost -- The planning of land reclamation and ecological restoration in the abandoned land left over by history -- Study on renewal strategy of ecological restoration in an abandoned mining area based on the view of loess civilization -- "The Belt and Road" strategy under the new mode of ecological restoration of mining areas -- Monitoring, prediction and assessment of mining impact on land environment -- Post-mining land-use selection by using a combination of PROMETHEE and SIR techniques -- Land ecological security evaluation in mining cities based on the PSR model: A case study of Wu'an -- Experimental research on slope protection collaborated with vetiver and micropiles -- The design of hydraulic barriers: Integration between rational and observational methods Preliminary analysis and study on land reclamation and vegetation restoration-a case study of HuaXin coal mine in TongChuan city -- Study on root distribution and mechanical properties of pinus tabulaeformis in dumps of an opencast coal mine, Shanxi, China -- Study on the ecological security of Wu'an based on DPSIR -- Study on the landscape design in southern Shaanxi mining area based on similar natural terrain reconstruction -- Varied soil liable organic carbon contents among reclamation patterns in Pingshuo opencast coal mine, China -- Soil available water in texturally different soils from overburden of an open pit mine in Xilinhot -- Study on the treatment method of stripping soil in an opencast mining area based on trade background -- Peatland restoration after open pit mining -- Effect of different vegetation restoration years on soil fertility in the Antaibao open pit -- The open-pit mining dust characteristics in the eastern Junggar coal field and its impact on the surrounding plants -- Subsidence land reclamation and ecological restoration -- Reclamation of prime agricultural farmlands: A retrospective 40 years after reclamation -- Concurrent mining and reclamation for underground coal mining subsidence impacts in China -- Research on mining technology of extra-thick coal seam under rich water aquifers in a bitter cold steppe region -- Technique of long-distance reclaiming of subsidence land with Yellow River sediments -- Design of an ecological damage restoration scheme in a mining subsidence area-taking the Xuzhou Dawu mining area as an example -- Physical and chemical properties of soil at different mining subsidence areas in windy and sandy regions -- Using loess and wind-blown sand in cementitious material for backfill mining to control land subsidence "Land Reclamation in Ecological Fragile Areas contains the proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration (LRER 2017, Xi'an, China, 20-23 October 2017). The contributions cover a wide range of topics:" Mining impact on environment" Monitoring, prediction and assessment of mining impact on land environment" Mining methods and measurements to minimize the land and environment impact" Mining and reclamation policies, regulations and standard " AMD treatment" Soil and landscape reconstruction" Revegetation and biodiversity protection" Subsidence land reclamation and ecological restoration" Surface mined land reclamation and ecological restoration" Solid wastes management, waste dump and tailings pond restoration" Case study" Abandoned mine land reclamation and ecological restoration" Contaminated land remediation" Reclaimed land monitoring and evaluation" Land reclamation supervision" Products and industrialization" Education, technology transfer and international cooperation of mine land reclamation" 6 he Belt and Road Initiative" and mine land restorationLand Reclamation in Ecological Fragile Areas will be of interest to engineers, scientists, consultants, government officials and students in this area."--Provided by publisher This work holds the proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration (LRER 2017), which will take place on October 20-23 2017, in Beijing, PR China.