R E Hester & R M Harrison 
Mining and its Environmental Impact 

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.

Table of Content

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.

About the author

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.