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DOI	10.22034/gjesm.2021.04.06
	Mitigation of environmental impacts in ornamental rock and limestone aggregate quarries in arid and semi-arid areas
	Penaranda Barba, M. A.; Alarcon Martinez, V; Gomez Lucas, I; Navarro Pedreno, J.
通讯作者	Barba, MAP (corresponding author), Univ Miguel Hernandez Elche, Dept Agroquim & Medio Ambiente, Edif Alcudia,Avda Univ, Alicante, Spain.
来源期刊	GLOBAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT-GJESM
ISSN	2383-3572
出版年	2021
卷号	7 期号:4 页码:565-586
英文摘要	BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Open-pit mining is an important activity to obtain mineral resources that supply society with raw materials to improve people's quality of life. However, this extractive activity causes negative environmental impacts and, it is therefore necessary to identify and evaluate these impacts in order to design preventive and control measures to reduce them and thus safeguard the environment and natural resources. In the Region of Murcia, in Spain, as well as other Mediterranean areas with similar climatic conditions, there is a great deal of mining activity linked to the building sector, in which mainly ornamental rock (marble and marble limestone) and limestone aggregates are used. All of this has given rise to numerous active and abandoned mines, where no restoration process has been carried out, generating strong impacts on the environment. METHODS: In this study, 8 environmental impact assessments studies of ornamental rock and aggregate quarries in the Region of Murcia were analysed to identify the negative impacts on the abiotic and biotic environment, landscape, socio-economic and socio-cultural environment, and infrastructures and analysing preventive and control measures. FINDINGS: According to the environmental impact assessment studies analysed, the importance of the most significant environmental impacts has been calculated, indicating whether the impacts are critical, severe, moderate or compatible, and based on it, preventive and corrective measures are proposed together in an impact mitigation management system based in flow charts that will serve to more easily apply and control these measures, in order to prevent them from causing significant or irreversible damage to the environment. Analysing these measures, it has been observed that 90% of the measures applied to control the different negative environmental factors in this type of quarry are the same. CONCLUSION: Open-pit mining extraction systems have a series of similar characteristics that allow a systematic approach to be established when analysing the impacts. With the use of flowcharts, it becomes easier to apply measures to reduce environmental impacts and in addition, these diagrams, allow at the same time the easy incorporation of updates due to changing regulations. (C) 2021 GJESM. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Environmental impact assessment Flow charts Mitigation methodology Open-pit mining Preventive measures Reducing impacts
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000659262300006
WOS关键词	RECLAMATION
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/352827
作者单位	[Penaranda Barba, M. A.; Gomez Lucas, I; Navarro Pedreno, J.] Univ Miguel Hernandez Elche, Dept Agroquim & Medio Ambiente, Edif Alcudia,Avda Univ, Alicante, Spain; [Alarcon Martinez, V] Univ Int la Rioja, Escuela Super Ingn & Tecnol, Dept Org Ind & Elect, Madrid, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Penaranda Barba, M. A.,Alarcon Martinez, V,Gomez Lucas, I,et al. Mitigation of environmental impacts in ornamental rock and limestone aggregate quarries in arid and semi-arid areas[J],2021,7(4):565-586.
APA	Penaranda Barba, M. A.,Alarcon Martinez, V,Gomez Lucas, I,&Navarro Pedreno, J..(2021).Mitigation of environmental impacts in ornamental rock and limestone aggregate quarries in arid and semi-arid areas.GLOBAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT-GJESM,7(4),565-586.
MLA	Penaranda Barba, M. A.,et al."Mitigation of environmental impacts in ornamental rock and limestone aggregate quarries in arid and semi-arid areas".GLOBAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT-GJESM 7.4(2021):565-586.