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Biomass belongs among renewable energy sources and its representation in national energy strategies is increasing due to the limited supplies of fossil fuels. One of the options for substitution of fossil fuels is short rotation cropping systems for woody biomass as a method of reclamation and revitalization of anthropogenic soil profiles during restoration activities in the areas after brown coal mining. The scope of the project "Methodology of sustainable agricultural management in anthropogenic damaged landscap...

Krakow ? the former capital of Poland ? is situated on border Krakow-Silesian monocline and Carpathians Flysch separated by narrow zone of the Carpathian Foredeep. In the geological structure of Krakow, the Jurassic and Cretaceous are exposed on the surface sediments. The Neogene sediments fill the Vistula valley. For thousands of years the sacred and secular constructions have been built using Jurassic limestones coming from local quarries. These quarries were founded on fault ridges, from the early Middle Ages t...

The study was performed at the former Jezi?rko sulphur mine (216.5 ha of afforested area after borehole exploitation). The area was characterized by the terrain structure and vegetation cover resulting from the reclamation process. The applied direction of reclamation for this area was forestry. The study investigated the possibility of applying the latest, freely available Sentinel-2 satellite images for the automation of land use and land cover (LULC) mapping, mainly in terms of monitoring the forest succession ...

The publication attempts to unify the scope of reclamation works in the agricultural, forest and aquatic directions. For the analysis of the works scope, three phases of reclamation were adopted: preliminary, basic (technical) and detailed (biological). Preliminary reclamation consists in the analysis of factors affecting the selection of a reclamation direction, establishing the direction of reclamation and the development of design-estimate documentation. Basic (technical) reclamation consists in the shaping of ...

An important element in forecasting impact on groundwater of post-mining wastes used for open pit reclamation is the quantitative assessment of the absorptive capacity of deposited wastes (mainly Carboniferous rocks) and the volume of free rock debris as a zone more susceptible to mineral weathering and pollution leaching. These tests must be carried out simultaneously with the simulation on a laboratory scale of changes in the filtration coefficient of loose materials depending on the depth of the dumping ground ...