A large-scale land reclamation project is now being carried out at Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. The completed reclamation will provide 2.8 km 2 of land for the construction of the new Hong Kong Disneyland and other essential infrastructure developments. The impact of this project on various aspects such as ecology and environment has been widely discussed. This paper studies the chang...

It is our great honor to edit this special issue of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (EGAH), especially with the special theme of mine reclamation and suitable management for heavy metals. This issue has been made up with the extended works of oral or poster presentations that were given at the 2009 International Symposium on Mine Reclamation held cooperatively by the Korea Mine Reclamatio...

Large-scale reclamation projects during the past decades have been recognized as one of the driving factors behind land subsidence in coastal areas. However, the pattern of temporal evolution in reclamation settlements has rarely been analyzed. In this work, we study the spatio-temporal evolution pattern of Linggang New City (LNC) in Shanghai, China, using space-borne synthetic aperture radar i...

Purpose: to analyze the experience of domestic and foreign scientists in using various types land reclamation restore increase fertility degraded soils under irrigation rainfed conditions. Discussion. The overview research papers, literary sources, concerning impact on restoration is presented. options for reclamation, depending type degree soil degradation are considered. timely application (h...

Concern for the potential global change consequences of increasing atmospheric CO has prompted interest in the 2 development of mechanisms to reduce or stabilize atmospheric CO . During the next several decades, a program 2 focused on terrestrial sequestration processes could make a significant contribution to abating CO increases. The 2 reclamation of degraded lands, such as mine-spoil sites, ...

Abstract: High concentrations of selenium (Se) and sulfur (S) often occur in overburden soils and underlying shales associated with western coal mining areas. Knowing the role of Se and S in the soil-plant-animal system is important for proper management of mine spoil reclamation. I will discuss recent findings about Se and S forms in soil, their absorption and accumulation by plants, and their...

The east Delta horizontal expansion reclamation project is one of the Egyptian reclamation projects which was implemented in 1981. The project area is approximately equal to 366,500 Feddans. It's located in Ismalia Governorate at kilo 96.5 Cairo-Ismalia road. The irrigation system in this project depends on pumping stations at the right bank of Ismalia Canal through pipelines. The pipelines wer...