Incorporating Sustainable Development Principles into Coal Mine Design: Regulatory and Policy Barriers in the United States

A Novel Hybrid Fuzzy Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Model for the Selection of the Most Suitable Land Reclamation Variant at Open-Pit Coal Mines

“…This systemic approach provides economic and environmental sustainability, the protection and restoration of the environment, and the efficient and effective justification of mining and reclamation. A study has shown that the coal exploitation designer must align legal, environmental, and sustainability goals with traditional mining parameters [17]. A similar approach is given by the National Coal Board (NCB), whereby a contract is concluded with a mining company [4].…”

Optimizing coal mine planning and design for sustainable development in the context of mass exploitation of coal deposits

“…To begin this approach the appropriate parameters to be included has to be identified, and the interrelationship between these parameters should be identified, so as to create the models that establish these relationships. The coal excavation system models can be optimized and the expected outcomes can be determined [ 3 ]. The optimized models can be compared to the data availed from particular coal mining sites, thus enabling in refining the models and apply those models in the design of coal mine to establish sustainability.…”