Mining and Its Environmental Impact

Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-0-85404-200-5
Verlag: RSC Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Issues in Environmental Science and Technology

This first Issue in the series contains nine articles written by leading British and American experts from the mining industry, regulatory authorities, and academia, and incorporates the latest research. Following an introductory overview of many of the issues of current concern to the field, the book deals with a wide variety of topics, ranging from the environmental impact of gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon, through the issues relevant to coal mining, vegetative and other remediation strategies and procedures and water pollution, to a thorough analysis of environmental management and policy initiatives. The issues raised in Mining and its Environmental Impact may point the way to future solutions to the economic, technological and environmental problems associated with mining in all its aspects and make this volume key reading for practitioners and researchers in the field, as well as for environmentalists generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hester, R E

Harrison, R M

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barbour, Anthony K

Burdett, N A

Chave, P A

Crutzen, Paul

Fish, Hugh

Gittins, Michael J

Harries, John E

Hopke, Philip K

Houghton, John T

Matsui, Saburo

Perry, Roger

Slater, David H

Spiro, T G

Taylor, David

Cairns Jr, John

Cleary, David

Thornton, Ian

Johnson, M S

Cooke, J A

Stevenson, J K W

Schnoor, J L

Erickson, Larry E

Licht, L A

Tracy, J

Banks, M K

Buchanan, D J

Brenkley, D

Williams, Alan

Mitchell, C

Atkinson, R B

Warhurst, Alyson

Pentreath, Jan

Doyle, Peter

Pierzynski, G M

King, N J

Warner, Frederick

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Bergbau
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltüberwachung, Umweltanalytik, Umweltinformatik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Mining Non-ferrous Metals; The Environmental Impact of Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon; Revegetation of Metalliferous Wastes and Land After Metal Mining; Vegetative Remediation at Superfund Sites; Green Coal Mining; Methane Emissions from Coal Mining; Constructing Ecosystems and Detecting their Connectivity to the Larger Ecological Landscape; The Discharge of Waters from Active and Abandoned Mines; Environmental Best-practice in Metals Production. Subject Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Harrison, R M
Roy Harrison OBE is Queen Elizabeth II Birmingham Centenary Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Birmingham. In 2004 he was appointed OBE for services to environmental science. Professor Harrison’s research interests lie in the field of environment and human health. His main specialism is in air pollution, from emissions through atmospheric chemical and physical transformations to exposure and effects on human health. Much of this work is designed to inform the development of policy.

Hopke, Philip K
Dr. Hopke who began his Post-Doctoral Research at MIT, joined the department of Chemistry as the first Robert A Plane Professor in 1989, after spending several years at the Institute for Environmental Studies. Prior to that he was a visiting Faculty at University of Illinois and Assistant Professor at the State University College at Fredonia,NY.

Hester, R E
Ron Hester is an emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of York. In addition to his research work on a wide range of applications of vibrational spectroscopy, he has been actively involved in environmental chemistry and was a founder member of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environment Group. His current activities are mainly as an editor and as an external examiner and assessor on courses, individual promotions, and departmental/subject area evaluations both in the UK and abroad.

The series has been edited by Professors Hester and Harrison since it began in 1994.

Professor Roy Harrison OBE is listed by ISI Thomson Scientific (on ISI Web of Knowledge) as a Highly Cited Researcher in the Environmental Science/Ecology category. He has an h-index of 54 (i.e. 54 of his papers have received 54 or more citations in the literature). In 2004 he was appointed OBE for services to environmental science in the New Year Honours List. He was profiled by the Journal of Environmental Monitoring (Vol 5, pp 39N-41N, 2003). Professor Harrison’s research interests lie in the field of environment and human health. His main specialism is in air pollution, from emissions through atmospheric chemical and physical transformations to exposure and effects on human health. Much of this work is designed to inform the development of policy.

Now an emeritus professor, Professor Ron Hester's current activities in chemistry are mainly as an editor and as an external examiner and assessor. He also retains appointments as external examiner and assessor / adviser on courses, individual promotions, and departmental / subject area evaluations both in the UK and abroad.