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.