Mining Environmental Policy
Subtitle: Comparing Indonesia And the USA (Ashgate Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: January 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780754644934
Subjects: Management of land & natural resources; Mining industry; Pollution & threats to the environment; Politics/International Relations; Indonesia; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; United States; USA; Public Policy - Social Policy; Real Estate - General; Environmental policy; International Relations - General; Environmental aspects; Strip mining
First sentence: Wherever it occurs in the world, surface mining of coal completely eliminates existing vegetation, destroys the genetic soil profile, displaces or destroys wildlife and habitat, degrades air quality, alters current land uses, and to some extent permanently changes the general topography of the area mined (U.S.DOI/OSM, 1979).