Example of reclamation attempts at a set of quarries located in Izmir, Turkey

Pamukcu, C.; Şimşir, Ferhan

doi:10.1007/s10913-006-0058-z

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“…They involved possible risks of surface watercourses and groundwater contamination (Nicolau and Asensio 2000), visual landscape irregularity, quantifiable by means of appropriate indicators (Hagiou and Konstantopoulou 2010), changes in the site topography, damages to the soil composition and morphology (Pamukçu and Simsir 2006), and safety problems related to erosion processes due to the steep slope of quarry fronts (Martín Duque and others 2010).…”

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Identification of Quarries Rehabilitation Scenarios: A Case Study Within the Metropolitan Area of Bari (Italy)

Sasso

Ottolino

Caliandro

2012

Environmental Management

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This paper addresses quarries rehabilitation issue within a Metropolitan Area. Areas where mining activity is carried out have been subjected to physical and environmental degradation linked both to pursue the building materials extraction and to the city expansion continuously asking for new areas to be developed with residential and service functions. These changes also occurred where environmental and landscape values are present. It has been therefore pointed out the issue of such areas redevelopment that, to be functionally reintegrated, must be consistently linked to the activities and the territorial local contexts characteristics. In this paper the quarries reuse issue is carried out through parameters identification able to define the quarries relationship with the neighboring towns and with their surroundings besides to identify their physical, environmental and landscaping characteristics. Quarry reuse alternatives have been identified among those consistent with the rehabilitation goals, as defined by the planning sector and internationally approved, while their selection is derived from the application of a two-step methodology: a multi-criteria analysis related to punctual parameters at a "site-specific" level, followed by a further territorial indicators checking over the wide area. This application has led to socially accepted results identifying the examined quarries for reuses ranging from agricultural-forestry and urban to functional or naturalistic. The proposed method has also proved to be suitable to address the abandoned quarries reuse problem with a systemic and consultative approach, as it is able to correlate the many variables present in the social and spatial complexity of the Metropolitan Areas.

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Identification of Quarries Rehabilitation Scenarios: A Case Study Within the Metropolitan Area of Bari (Italy)

Sasso

Ottolino

Caliandro

2012

Environmental Management

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“…Additionally, the terraces functioned as the basis for revegetation. Revegetation works contributed to the minimization of soil erosion which was the main restoration goal (Tsatsanifos et al, 2006), while they served both to the elimination of the visual pollution of the area and by the creation of an (artificial) forest ecosystem in a short period of time (Lucas, 1991;Pamukcu and Simsir, 2006). The relatively high rates of trees survival and the high canopy closure of the woody vegetation resulted in effective protection of soils from erosion.…”

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Evaluation of restoration of an asbestos mine, in northern Greece, eight years after restoration works

Ganatsas

Tsakaldimi

Ioannidis

et al. 2021

J.Degrade.Min.Land Manage.

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This paper deals with the evaluation of rehabilitation of spoils depositions of asbestos mine MABE, Kozani, in northern Greece, eight years after restoration works. In order to succeed this, we monitored all the restoration actions during the period of restoration works, as well as during the post-restoration period of eight years after the end of restoration works. The evaluation showed that the mining area subjected to restoration is now characterized, eight years after restoration, by high land stabilization, satisfactory woody vegetation cover, low erosion risk, low concentration of asbestos fibres in the air and water, and furthermore it was aesthetically integrated in the surrounding landscape. Even though the great difficulties due to the huge pile of spoils depositions that had been created during mining, the selection of the specific restoration actions greatly contributed to the achievement of a sustainable post-mining environment. The suitable land transformation, and the satisfactory establishment of forest vegetation created a safe from asbestos fibres environment, and for a sustainable future land use of the previous mine area as forest, which in many cases is the most appropriate post-mining use for contaminated mining areas.

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“…In contrast, restoration of very unstable slopes would require plant species that increase slope stability (Pamukçu & Simsir 2006). A recent study has evidenced that I. viscosa (HD species) and several Salix species could perform this function due to resistant roots that provide soil reinforcement (Tosi 2007).…”

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Plant Species Patterns and Restoration Perspectives in the Highly Disturbed Environment of the Carrara Marble Quarries (Apuan Alps, Italy)

Gentili

Sgorbati

Baroni

2011

Restoration Ecology

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Quarrying activities result in vegetation destruction, soil denudation, and profound modification of the original landscape. This study was conducted in dump deposits (locally called ravaneti ) of both abandoned and active Carrara marble quarries. The site is located close to a natural park rich in endemic species, making it a particularly interesting place to study environmental changes induced by quarrying activities. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationships between plant communities and four different types of ravaneti classified according to age and disturbance due to quarrying activities. We sampled 67 vegetation plots linked to site variables and Ellenberg indicator values in quarry sites. Species frequency on the most disturbed ravaneti allowed individuating five classes of species based on their tolerance to disturbance due to quarrying. The resulting species/environmental variables matrix was used to perform a canonical correspondence analysis (CCA). CCA primarily grouped species along soil reaction (R) and nutrient (N ) availability gradients and on the basis of their response to excavation-caused disturbance. Ravaneti created using modern excavation methods were colonized by ruderal and alien species at the expenses of endemic ones. On the basis of these findings, a set of native plant species have been identified for use in future restoration projects in abandoned quarries.

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Example of reclamation attempts at a set of quarries located in Izmir, Turkey

Cited by 5 publications

References 1 publication

Identification of Quarries Rehabilitation Scenarios: A Case Study Within the Metropolitan Area of Bari (Italy)

Identification of Quarries Rehabilitation Scenarios: A Case Study Within the Metropolitan Area of Bari (Italy)

Evaluation of restoration of an asbestos mine, in northern Greece, eight years after restoration works

Plant Species Patterns and Restoration Perspectives in the Highly Disturbed Environment of the Carrara Marble Quarries (Apuan Alps, Italy)

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