ON ECOLOGICAL REHABILITATION OF MINING AREAS
试论矿区生态重建

Land reclamation in mining areas involves a wide range of disciplines and technologies. Studies on basic theories and methods of ecological rehabilitation in mining areas of China are very poor,and as a result, many primary concepts and problems have not been uniformly recognized but rather fragmental and unsystematic. Therefore, the study examines changes in research concepts from land reclamation to ecological rehabilitation and discusses the theortical basis of ecological rehabiltation in mining areas in the light of the actual scientific research practices carried out in the past ten years by the author. The concept, features, scale of range and time of ecological rehabilitation are defined and the espistemology and methodology concerning research on ecological rehabilitation in mining areas are discussed as well by taking Antaibao Opencut Coal Mine in Pingshuo as a case.