Local groundwater in coastal aquifers in Shenzhen has experienced heavy pumping since the 1980’s when Shenzhen began to expand very quickly from a fishing village to a modern city but lacked a public water supply. Meanwhile, large-scale land reclamation was carried out to meet the needs of various urbanization projects. In this paper we analyzed groundwater from a coastal aquifer system in Shen...

Reclamation under the strict requirements of the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 requires a high level of knowledge of plant growth r e q u i r e m e n t s in r e l a t i o n to geochemical factors on each mine site. A desirable reclamation goal would be to consider all feasible alternatives for creating productive soils and attractive landscapes. The raw materials fo...

Local groundwater in coastal aquifers in Shenzhen has experienced heavy pumping since the 1980s when it began to expand very quickly from a fishing village to a modern city. Meanwhile, large-scale land reclamation was carried out to meet the needs of various urbanization projects. In this paper we analyzed the groundwater from a coastal aquifer system in Shenzhen and examined the evolution of g...

Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) is a multipurpose, hardy, deciduous shrub, an ideal plant for soil erosion control, land reclamation, wildlife habitat enhancement, and farmstead protection. It has high nutritional and medicinal values for humans. The majority of sea buckthorn research has been conducted in Asia and Europe. It is a promising new crop for North America, and recently it ha...

Cuiping Ge, Jun Zhao, Shaoliang Zhang, Lei Shang and Sheng Yin 1* Hailun Station of the National Field Station of Scientific Research and Observation, Heilongjiang Key Laboratory of Black Soil Ecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agro-ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, 150081 Email: [email protected] Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,...

this paper deals with the planning of rehabilitation of spoils of asbestos mine in nw greece with the name mabe in prefecture of kozani. for this purpose a detailed ecological research has taken place in the wider area in order to estimate the prevailing environmental (site) conditions. the spoils heaps are characterized by very steep slope inclination (80-90%). in order to improve the stabilit...

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Within the Oltenia surface mining region of Romania, 14,890 ha have been disturbed and only 1,002 ha have been reclaimed. The majority of this disturbance has involved agricultural land (12,208 ha), of which only a small amount has been reclaimed (552 ha). Forest land disturbed by surface mining in this region amounted to 2,682 ha, of which only 450 ha have been reclaimed. Therefore, huge land ...