Section 1: Introductory 1. Scientific and practical principles of reclamation of disturbed soils 2. Smart Solutions for Sustainable Development: Approaches in Land Rehabilitation 3. Towards environmental sustainability: the impact of mining activity on land 4. Soils as a key node of the Resource Nexus in post-mining regions 5. Mining Sustainability. A Reality in Arid Zones Section 2: Technosols 6. Organic wastes characteristics and their implications in mining restoration and Technosols making 7.
Mining area technosols: sustainable tools as carbon sinks 8. The concept for the Kizel Coal Basin remediation 9. Design and development of the optimal artificial soil cover for rehabilitation of mining waste deposits Section 3: Soil-plant system 10. Environmental sustainability strategies using nature-based technology approaches 11. Mining activities effects on the soil-plant system 12. Application of thermally treated rice for mitigation of As transportation in the soil-plant system 13. Spatial effect on the greening of industrially polluted soils using native species in the Subarctic Section 4: Geographical distribution of case studies 14. Sustainable development of mine-affected soils and degraded land in Cartagena, Southeast Spain 15.
Degraded lands of Sardinia (Italy), with particular reference to abandoned mine areas 16. Land degradation, conservation, and sustainability of natural resources in the Alpine fringe, Northern Italy 17. Sustainable land reclamation of mining affected sites in Poland with special focus on Upper Silesia Region 18. Overview of historical metal(loid) ore mining sites in the Sudetes (SW Poland) and the status of their reclamation. 19. Quarries and open pits produced by mining of rock raw materials as the sites of nature protection in Poland - selected examples 20. Integrated environmental impact assessment of mining industry: A case of former Altai Mining and Processing Plant, Russia 21. Sustainability Nexus approaches in environmental assessment and the rehabilitation of mining regions in Mongolia Section 5: Concluding chapter 22.
Soils and human health in mine-affected area.