Exploring potential impacts of mining on forest loss and …
For example, previous studies about large-scale mining in the Brazilian Amazon have shown that indirect impacts outside of mining leases caused 9% of deforestation between 2005 and 2015 – representing an area 12 times larger than the mines themselves (Sonter et al., 2017). In addition to forest loss, mining also fragments …Web
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Deforestation
Logging – cutting of trees for use as raw material. Mining and urban expansion – clearing of forest area for the construction of infrastructure. According to the secretariat of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), agriculture is the root cause of 80% of deforestation.Web
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An update on global mining land use | Scientific Data
Mining can cause a wide range of adverse impacts during mining operation and ... Virro, H., Mander, U. & Uuemaa, E. Increasing fragmentation of forest cover in brazil's legal amazon from 2001 to ...Web
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Strategic planning to mitigate mining impacts on protected
307 Altmetric Metrics Abstract Growing demand for minerals is increasing pressure to open protected areas (PAs) for mining. Here we develop spatially explicit …Web
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Forest cover in India: A victim of technicalities
The forest cover reported by forest surveys does not distinguish between natural forests and artificial. ... Assessing the impact of mining on deforestation in India. Resources Policy, Volume 60, 2019, pp. 23-35. Ram Ranjan. Product switching and efficiency in a declining small-scale fishery.Web
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(PDF) Mining impacts on forest cover change in a tropical forest …
Worldwide mining activities are one of the major anthropogenic activities that have caused high forest cover loss (FCL). In this study, we have quantified FCL in …Web
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Impact of mining on land use land cover change and water quality …
Land cover classification is important for understanding the impact of mining activities on the environment and for environmental impact assessment in general. (Obodai et al., 2019) (Obodai et al., 2019) assessed the pattern of land use/cover change in the Ankobrah River Basin in Ghana and concluded that forest changed drastically within …Web
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Impacts of forestation and deforestation on local temperature
Changing forest cover is a key driver of local climate change worldwide, as it affects both albedo and evapotranspiration (ET). Deforestation and forestation are predicted to have opposing influences on surface albedo and ET rates, and thus impact local surface temperatures differently. Relationships between forest change, albedo, ET, …Web
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Predicting the loss of forests, carbon stocks and biodiversity …
(C) shows forest cover in (2019) with forestry concessions, mining permits and areas of no forest cover. Where mining permits and forestry concessions occupy the same space, mining permits are shown on top. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)Web
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'It's a real mess': Mining and deforestation threaten unparalleled …
Impacts extend beyond the mining sites. ... Kimia Mining Investment maintained that it owns mining research and exploration permits that cover the majority of the Muchacha mining site, according ...Web
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Deforestation and Forest Loss
When in history did we lose it? In the chart we see how the cover of the earth's surface has changed over the past 10,000 years. This is shortly after the end of …Web
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Impact of open pit coal mining on the forest landscape
This study examined the impact of mining activity on the forest cover by using satellite images of 2000 and 2017 over the protected forest area of Barabini C.D. block of West Bengal. Land use land cover during the specified time experienced modification to a large extent. Over the past 17 years there is a drastic change in the land …Web
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Quantifying the impacts of opencast mining on
It was observed that the major anthropogenic activities, particularly opencast mining, are the major factor for vegetation degradation in Jharkhand and Odisha states, …Web
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The impact of gold mining and agricultural concessions on the …
From the data available, we are unable to comment on the impact of mining on forest cover in Hukaung before 2000, but there is evidence for a spatial association between tree cover decreases, gold ...Web
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Considering counterfactual scenarios in conservation planning
Counterfactual scenarios serve to simulate conditions without a project development and investigate the impacts of conservation strategies and their effectiveness (Nicholson et al., 2019).To quantify the cumulative impacts on B&ES resulting from LULC changes in a biodiverse region in the Atlantic Forest with a mining project and its …Web
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Impact of mining on vegetation cover: A case study of Prestea …
The study investigated the impact of mining on vegetation cover in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality using two-interval satellite images and predicted change for the year 2030. Land cover (forest and open vegetation) has significantly declined during the assessed period in the Municipality due to agriculture expansion, urbanization, and mining.Web
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Conservation and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo: …
Expanding mining concessions also threaten the DRC's forest, even though nearly 12% of it is under some form of protection. In this study, we used spatially-explicit data on conflict, mining, and protected areas, along with a host of control variables, to estimate the impacts of these factors on forest cover loss from 1990 to 2010.Web
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Impacts of land-use and land-cover change on rural livelihoods
Land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes have been observed in Sierra Leone, but to what extent they impact rural livelihoods, amidst investment by multinational companies in non-food crops and mining, remains a grey area in the scientific discourse. Against this backdrop, this study attempts, for the first time, to investigate the spatio …Web
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Why deforestation matters—and what we can do to stop it
Causes of deforestation. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world's land area, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. Since 1990, the world has lost more than 420 million ...Web
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(PDF) Assessing Impacts of Mining Activities on Land Use/Land Cover
The forest cover has decreased about 21.3%, meanwhile having nine fold increase in mining area from 1990 to 2020. The forest area lost during the study period was 7983.45 ha due to land cover ...Web
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Large Omnivore Movements in Response to Surface Mining and …
Potential ecological impacts of mining include loss of forest cover, habitat fragmentation, changes in topographic complexity and associated alteration of soil, carbon sequestration potential and ...Web
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Resource extraction and infrastructure threaten forest …
forest cover. While mining concessions in the northern edge of. ... Johnson K (2017) Characterizing the Impacts of Coal Mining on Forest Loss and. Protected Areas in Sumatra, Indonesia (2000-2014).Web
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Exploring potential impacts of mining on forest loss and …
We found that mining, and other infrastructure associated with mines (i.e. roads), caused significant forest loss and fragmentation within neighboring mining …Web
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Impact of illegal mining activities on forest ecosystem services: …
1. Introduction. Tropical forest ecosystems around the world are being wiped-out at a rate of 25 million acres per year (Bagyina, 2012).Whiles agricultural activities and wood extraction are identified as major drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in terms of spatial coverage (Hosonuma et al., 2012), degradation caused by mining tend …Web
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Quantifying the impacts of opencast mining on
In the Indian context, Ranjan (2019) assessed the effects of mining activity on deforestation across more than 300 districts in India, and they reported that mineral groups, such as coal, iron, and limestone, had the most severe impacts on forest cover loss. But this study lacks the spatial delineation of forest cover loss due to mining ...Web
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Proposed Legislation to Mine Brazil's Indigenous Lands Will …
The impacts of proposed legislation to allow mining within Indigenous Lands in the Brazilian Amazon could affect a large extent of forests—up to 20% more than the potentially affected area under current trends of mining expansion. These forests are home to 222 culturally unique indigenous groups, and it is estimated to provide more …Web
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Determination of the Impacts of Mining Activities on Land Cover …
Mining impacts on forest cover change in a tropical forest using remote sensing and spatial information from 2001–2019 A case study of Odisha (India) Journal …Web
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Assessing the impact of mining on deforestation in India
Explores impact of mining on deforestation across 314 districts of India for 2001–2014. Impact of key minerals such as iron, coal, bauxite, limestone and granite is assessed. Coal, iron or limestone producing districts suffered 450 sq km of extra forest cover loss. Districts not producing any of the key minerals had 350 km 2 lower forest loss.Web
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Land use and cover change dynamics in Zambia's Solwezi copper mining
Mining activities are linked to changes in land cover, which have significant effects on different land uses in which forests are negatively impacted upon [22, 55]. One crucial challenge for the new mining districts is the population boo [38] .Web
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Forest cover changes and public policy: A literature review for …
Their impact on forest cover, hence, is indirect. For the coding of underlying causes, we adapted to the local context the five categories that Geist and Lambin ... Therefore, the impact of mining and energy production activities could increase in the coming years if the government does not take precautionary measures.Web
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