Remediation and Management of Degraded Lands
Publisher: Ann Arbor press
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781575041094
Subjects: Technology & Industrial Arts; Mines and mineral resources; Environmental aspects; Nature/Ecology; Agriculture - General; Abandoned mined lands reclamat; Abandoned mined lands reclamation; Land degradation; Management
First sentence: Although data on the proportion of land disturbed by mining gIobally is not available, extrapolation from data available for major mining countries such as the United States and Australia would suggest that this percentage is small (&lt;1%) in relation to that devoted to other land uses.