Environmental Impacts of Sand Exploitation. Analysis of Sand Market

Gavriletea, Marius Dan

doi:10.3390/su9071118

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“…Sand is an important mineral for our society in protecting the environment, buffer against strong tidal waves and storm, habitat for crustacean species and marine organism [2], used for making concrete, filling roads, building sites, brickmaking, making glass, sandpapers, reclamations, and in our tourism industry in beach attractions. Sand mining is the process of removal of sand and gravel where this practice is becoming an environmental issue as the demand for sand increases in industry and construction [3][4][5][6]. Currently, owing to the growing demand for mineral resources, the number of degraded and destroyed sites worldwide has increased [7][8][9][10][11], and opencast mining often has irreversible natural consequences.…”

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Environmental Transformations in the Area of the Kuźnica Warężyńska Sand Mine, Southern Poland

Różkowski¹,

Rahmonov²,

Szymczyk³

2020

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On the basis of the analysis and interpretation of maps, published literature, and environmental reconnaissance, this article discusses environmental transformations in the area of the Kuźnica Warężyńska sand mine in southern Poland over the years 1944–2015. A comprehensive ecological analysis was carried out concerning spatial development, mining activity, hydrogeological and hydrological conditions as well as the biotic environment. Among the unfavourable changes found were a drastic reduction in the agricultural function of the area (from 7.03 to 0.47 km2), mainly due to periodic activity of sand mine in 1967–2002, covering an area of about 5.80 km2, the destruction of the original biocenoses, the depletion and deterioration in quality of the groundwater resources, and man-made transformations of the hydrographic network (during the mine’s activity its length reached over 103 km). Vegetation changes during the 70-year period examined were closely related to human mining activity. The greatest changes occurred at the end of the 1960s when large areas of pine forest were cut down. The analysis of vegetation in the former workings demonstrated that the diversity of habitats within the workings results in a significant increase in species (367 plant species, 2002 birds) and community diversity (Molinion caeruleae, Molinion caeruleae, three Natura habitats) there compared to the adjacent areas. On the other hand, favourable changes included the construction of a flood control reservoir, with an area of 560 ha and a volume of 51 million m3, created in 2003–2005, making the area more attractive for tourism and recreation, and an increase in biodiversity, including the establishment of a Natura 2000 site.

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Environmental Transformations in the Area of the Kuźnica Warężyńska Sand Mine, Southern Poland

Różkowski¹,

Rahmonov²,

Szymczyk³

2020

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“…On the other hand, with rapid urbanization and infrastructure development, there is a drastic increase in demand on construction materials like sand to produce concrete, tile, brick, glass, ceramics, etc. (Gavriletea, 2017).…”

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“…Sand is a natural fine aggregate formed by eroding of rock surface during its weathering process (John, 2009;Gavriletea, 2017). For example, France itself consumes approximately 400 million tons of aggregate annually (UNPG, 2006; Jullienet al, 2012) and thus, the United Nations Environment Programme has declared that Sand and gravel has become the second highest raw material in the list, which is consumed on the earth after water and their rate of usage exceeds than their natural renewal rates (UNEP, 2014).…”

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Feasibility Study on the Effect of Pet Bottle Fibres in Concrete.

Chimi¹,

TsheringDarjay²,

SPhuntsho³

et al. 2018

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“…' We study India, where rapid and large-scale urbanization is anticipated and expected to be home to some 400 million urban residents by 2050 (United Nations 2014). India and other Asian nations face several resource constraints including lack of urban land, rising construction costs and material (sand) shortages that constrain housing construction (World Bank 2017, Government of India 2006, Ramkumar et al 2015, Gavriletea and Dan 2017. For energy (electricity, LPG), rising demand and pressure on supply is the biggest resource constraint.…”

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Resource requirements of inclusive urban development in India: insights from ten cities

Nagpure

Reiner

Ramaswami

2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

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This paper develops a methodology to assess the resource requirements of inclusive urban development in India and compares those requirements to current community-wide material and energy flows. Methods include: (a) identifying minimum service level benchmarks for the provision of infrastructure services including housing, electricity and clean cooking fuels; (b) assessing the percentage of homes that lack access to infrastructure or that consume infrastructure services below the identified benchmarks; (c) quantifying the material requirements to provide basic infrastructure services using India-specific design data; and (d) computing material and energy requirements for inclusive development and comparing it with current community-wide material and energy flows. Applying the method to ten Indian cities, we find that: 1%-6% of households do not have electricity, 14%-71% use electricity below the benchmark of 25 kWh capita-month −1 ; 4%-16% lack structurally sound housing; 50%-75% live in floor area less than the benchmark of 8.75 m 2 floor area/capita; 10%-65% lack clean cooking fuel; and 6%-60% lack connection to a sewerage system. Across the ten cities examined, to provide basic electricity (25 kWh capita-month −1 ) to all will require an addition of only 1%-10% in current community-wide electricity use. To provide basic clean LPG fuel (1.2 kg capita-month −1 ) to all requires an increase of 5%-40% in current community-wide LPG use. Providing permanent shelter (implemented over a ten year period) to populations living in non-permanent housing in Delhi and Chandigarh would require a 6%-14% increase over current annual community-wide cement use. Conversely, to provide permanent housing to all people living in structurally unsound housing and those living in overcrowded housing (<5 m cap −2 ) would require 32%-115% of current community-wide cement flows. Except for the last scenario, these results suggest that social policies that seek to provide basic infrastructure provisioning for all residents would not dramatically increasing current community-wide resource flows.

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Environmental Impacts of Sand Exploitation. Analysis of Sand Market

Cited by 192 publications

References 40 publications

Environmental Transformations in the Area of the Kuźnica Warężyńska Sand Mine, Southern Poland

Environmental Transformations in the Area of the Kuźnica Warężyńska Sand Mine, Southern Poland

Feasibility Study on the Effect of Pet Bottle Fibres in Concrete.

Resource requirements of inclusive urban development in India: insights from ten cities

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