Authors:
Rethman, N.
Publication Date:
2000
Abstract/Summary:
Rehabilitation of South African minelands has shifted from an emphasis on preventing erosion to the establishment of productive grasslands, to the restoration land creation) of a diversity of landscapes or habitats. Each of these might be characterised by greater or lesser biodiversity; this has resulted in an increasing diversity of post-mining land uses. Although such post mining land use is determined in a large measure by the local resources, regulatory organisations (once very dictatorial) increasingly take the desires of the local populace (interested and affected parties) into consideration, when considering the approval of post-mining land use objectives as set out in environmental management programs.
Resource Type:
Peer-reviewed Article
Source:
Tropical Grasslands