The environmental impacts of river sand mining

The demand for construction-grade sand is growing at a tremendous rate and the world is expected to run out of this resource by 2050. Construction-grade sand, hereafter referred to as ‘sand’, can be found in (former) aquatic environments, such as rivers and is a provisioning ecosystem service. Even...

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Published in:The Science of the total environment 2022-09, Vol.838 (Pt 1), p.155877, Article 155877
Main Authors: Rentier, E.S., Cammeraat, L.H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
air
Biodiversity
Ecosystem
Ecosystem services
Environmental Monitoring - methods
fauna
floodplains
flora
Humans
infrastructure
Mining
pollution
Riverbed degradation
rivers
Rivers - chemistry
Sand
Sand extraction
Sediment budget
shorelines
soil quality
stream channels
Water
Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis
Water quality
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