Rehabilitation of Post-Mining Areas in the Bohumin City Area (Czech Republic). Case Study

Abstract

Rehabilitation of post-industrial areas involves many areas. The area after hard coal mines, requires many specific actions and funds in order to eliminate any remnants of the former infrastructure that is located in this area. The area of Upper Silesia, which includes areas on both the Polish and Czech borders, belongs to the area where the process of underground hard coal mining is being extinguished. As a result of the completion of mining works, the mine areas and adjacent sites begin to undergo transformations. Thus, the landscape of this area changes, various types of land, residential buildings and roads are destroyed. The activities related to restoring the utility value to degraded areas should be carried out consistently, primarily from their inhabitants’ perspective. The rehabilitation of post-mining area and its proper management can bring great benefits to the city and its inhabitants in the future. The publication presents a proposal for land development solutions for the former hard coal mine in Bohumin, Vrbice district in the Czech Republic.

Comprehensive Method for Estimating the Time and Expenditures Required for Mine Liquidation Processes of Business Processes

“…The presented publication proposes a tool to support cost management and identifies areas and research problems requiring further analysis. The method can support the team of professionals designing the liquidation of a mine or part of it [4,12,40]. When crafting the approach, a degree of functional resemblance among the analyzed mining facilities was taken into account.…”

“…The closure of the mine is the final, natural, and unavoidable phase of mining activities [7,8,9,10]. Nevertheless, the literature scarcely addresses issues concerning mine closure and subsequent post-closure activities [11,12,13,14]. The moment active mining operations have ended, abandoned mine infrastructure can hinder the ability to develop mining assets [15, 16, 17, 18,].…”

Application of Chemical Sensors and Olfactometry Method in Ecological Audits of Degraded Areas

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