Mining Waste and Its Sustainable Management: Advances in Worldwide Research
Growing social awareness of the need to adequately treat mining waste in order to protect the environment has led to an increase in the research in this field. The aim of this study was to analyze the dynamics of the research focused on mining waste and its sustainable management on a worldwide scal...
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| author | Aznar Sánchez, José Ángel García Gómez, José Joaquín Velasco Muñoz, Juan Francisco Carretero Gómez, Anselmo |
| author_facet | Aznar Sánchez, José Ángel García Gómez, José Joaquín Velasco Muñoz, Juan Francisco Carretero Gómez, Anselmo |
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| description | Growing social awareness of the need to adequately treat mining waste in order to protect the environment has led to an increase in the research in this field. The aim of this study was to analyze the dynamics of the research focused on mining waste and its sustainable management on a worldwide scale from 1988 to 2017. A systematic review and a bibliometric analysis of 3577 articles were completed. The results show that research into mining waste has increased, with studies focusing on waste management accounting for almost 40% of the total. The most productive journals in this field were Applied Geochemistry and Science of the Total Environment. The five most productive countries were the United States, Canada, Spain, Australia, and China. Works on the sustainable management of mining waste were in the minority, but it is an area of research that has considerable potential given the growing social awareness of the environmental repercussions of mining activities and the demands for increasingly sustainable practices. The findings of this study could prove useful for studies into mine waste, as they depict a global view of this line of research. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-73592023-11-03T10:08:00Z Mining Waste and Its Sustainable Management: Advances in Worldwide Research Aznar Sánchez, José Ángel García Gómez, José Joaquín Velasco Muñoz, Juan Francisco Carretero Gómez, Anselmo mine waste management sustainability bibliometric analysis systematic review Growing social awareness of the need to adequately treat mining waste in order to protect the environment has led to an increase in the research in this field. The aim of this study was to analyze the dynamics of the research focused on mining waste and its sustainable management on a worldwide scale from 1988 to 2017. A systematic review and a bibliometric analysis of 3577 articles were completed. The results show that research into mining waste has increased, with studies focusing on waste management accounting for almost 40% of the total. The most productive journals in this field were Applied Geochemistry and Science of the Total Environment. The five most productive countries were the United States, Canada, Spain, Australia, and China. Works on the sustainable management of mining waste were in the minority, but it is an area of research that has considerable potential given the growing social awareness of the environmental repercussions of mining activities and the demands for increasingly sustainable practices. The findings of this study could prove useful for studies into mine waste, as they depict a global view of this line of research. 2020-01-16T10:34:06Z 2020-01-16T10:34:06Z 2018-07-02 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2075-163X http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7359 en https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/8/7/284 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | mine waste management sustainability bibliometric analysis systematic review Aznar Sánchez, José Ángel García Gómez, José Joaquín Velasco Muñoz, Juan Francisco Carretero Gómez, Anselmo Mining Waste and Its Sustainable Management: Advances in Worldwide Research |
| title | Mining Waste and Its Sustainable Management: Advances in Worldwide Research |
| title_full | Mining Waste and Its Sustainable Management: Advances in Worldwide Research |
| title_fullStr | Mining Waste and Its Sustainable Management: Advances in Worldwide Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mining Waste and Its Sustainable Management: Advances in Worldwide Research |
| title_short | Mining Waste and Its Sustainable Management: Advances in Worldwide Research |
| title_sort | mining waste and its sustainable management: advances in worldwide research |
| topic | mine waste management sustainability bibliometric analysis systematic review |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7359 |
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