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Sand mining : environmental impacts and selected case studies

Padmalal, D. (Damodharan), author, Maya, K., author

Overview

This book addresses most of the environmental impacts of sand mining from small rivers. The problems and solutions addressed in this book are applicable to all rivers that drain through densely populated tropical coasts undergoing rapid economic growth. Many rivers in the world are drastically being altered to levels often beyond their natural resilience capability. Among the different types of human interventions, mining of sand and gravel is the most disastrous one, as the activity threatens the very existence of river ecosystems. A better understanding of sand budgets is necessary if the problems of river and coastal environments are to be solved.

• Publisher: Springer
• Subject: Sand and gravel mines and mining Environmental aspects. / Sand and gravel mines and mining Case studies.
• ISBN: 9789401791434, 9401791430

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
TD195.S3 P33 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE