Assessing impacts of mining: Recent contributions from GIS and remote sensing

TT Werner, A Bebbington, G Gregory - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Mining produces several environmental, social, and economic impacts which can be
analysed spatially using remote sensing (RS) and geographical information systems (GIS) …

[HTML][HTML] Mining-induced displacement and resettlement: a critical appraisal

JR Owen, D Kemp - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Physical displacement, relocation and resettlement are widely acknowledged as posing
enormous social risk. For over four decades, scholars, campaigners and project-affected …

A global-scale data set of mining areas

V Maus, S Giljum, J Gutschlhofer, DM da Silva… - Scientific data, 2020‏ - nature.com
The area used for mineral extraction is a key indicator for understanding and mitigating the
environmental impacts caused by the extractive sector. To date, worldwide data products on …

Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

LJ Sonter, D Herrera, DJ Barrett, GL Galford… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Mining poses significant and potentially underestimated risks to tropical forests worldwide. In
Brazil's Amazon, mining drives deforestation far beyond operational lease boundaries, yet …

[HTML][HTML] Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon

S Villén-Pérez, L Anaya-Valenzuela… - Global Environmental …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The largest concentration of isolated indigenous peoples in the world is in the indigenous
lands of the Brazilian Legal Amazon. However, the right to self-isolation and the survival of …

Detecting the dynamics of vegetation disturbance and recovery in surface mining area via Landsat imagery and LandTrendr algorithm

Y Yang, PD Erskine, AM Lechner, D Mulligan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The vegetation cover dynamics such as the spatial extent and pattern of disturbance and
recovery are necessary information in mining regulation and environmental sustainability …

Evidence of the impacts of metal mining and the effectiveness of mining mitigation measures on social–ecological systems in Arctic and boreal regions: a systematic …

NR Haddaway, SJ Cooke, P Lesser, B Macura… - Environmental …, 2019‏ - Springer
Background Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation,
maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can …

Mining and socio-ecological systems: A systematic review of Sub-Saharan Africa

XT Tiamgne, FK Kalaba, VR Nyirenda - Resources Policy, 2022‏ - Elsevier
This study adapted a socio-ecological framework to review Drivers of mining Activities, the
environmental Pressures, the State of changes, their Impacts on human Welfare, and the …

Global-scale remote sensing of mine areas and analysis of factors explaining their extent

TT Werner, GM Mudd, AM Schipper… - Global Environmental …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Mines are composed of features like open cut pits, water storage ponds, milling
infrastructure, waste rock dumps, and tailings storage facilities that are often associated with …

Four decades of land-cover, land-use and hydroclimatology changes in the Itacaiúnas River watershed, southeastern Amazon

PWM Souza-Filho, EB de Souza, ROS Júnior… - Journal of environmental …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Long-term human-induced impacts have significantly changed the Amazonian landscape.
The most dramatic land cover and land use (LCLU) changes began in the early 1970s with …