XI WORLD FORESTRY CONGRESS Antalya, Turkey, 13 to 22 October 1997
	VOLUME 2, TOPIC 9 SUMMARIES OF VOLUNTARY PAPERS THE AFFORESTATION OF MINE AREAS AND ABANDONED MINES ­ AN UNAVOIDABLE WAY TO THE RECOVERING OF THE ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT IN MINING AREAS Sun Cuiling 1, Gu Wanchun 2 Modern mine industries produce much waste and slag, which damage the ecological environment of mine areas. This paper discusses the current situation of environment pollution in mine areas and the urgency and importance of its control and management. The authors point out that forests are an important part of the ecological environment and afforestation is the unavoidable way to recover and improve the ecological environment in mine areas. Preliminary ideas concerning the patterns, methods, technical measures for afforestation of abandoned mines and mine areas are stated. Keywords: Abandoned mines, afforestation engineering, ecological environment. 1 Professor, Research Institute of Forest Environment, CAF, Beijing, China 10091. 2 Professor, Research Institute of Forestry, CAF, Beijing, China 10091. Previous Section Next Section   Download the Pdf file for this topic (195 K) What is a Pdf file ?   Back to Top of the page
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