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Since July 2023, the research institute VUHU has been the investigator of the European reclamation project REECOL. The first part of the paper summarizes the results of the successful completion of the working package WP3, which was led by VUHU and finished in 2024. Within four sub-tasks, the current reclamation situation in the individual project countries was mapped. The main part of the paper evaluates the research within the framework of another working package WP5 focused on short-term and long-term monitorin...

Brown Coal Research Institute j. v. c. (VUHU) from July 2023, together with scientific teams from several European countries, participates as part of the EU research program in the solution of the REECOL project, which deals with the reclamation of areas affected by mining in European coal basins. This paper includes the results achieved in the preparation of the first sub-research report of the project, which deals with degraded soils. On the basis of archival data and own research, the concept of "soil degradati...

The Research Institute for Brown Coal j. s. c. (VUHU) has been involved in the research project of the EU Research Fund of Coal and Steel - The impact of extreme weather events on mining operations for four years. The project is focused on assessing the impact of climate change on mining activities in major European coal basins. Other participants are scientific teams from Poland, Great Britain, Spain, Germany and Greece. This is the last year of the project solving, so this paper summarizes the results of the sol...

The Brown Coal Research Institute j. s. c. is realising the long term research and survey in the field of restoration problems and it is realising the long term research of climate changes in the Czech Republic including impacts to mining operations during research programme of the European Union TEXMIN solving too. The input of expected temperature increasing and precipitation decreasing is favourable for mining operation from point of view of overburden and mining cuts stability, safety of mining and mining cost...

The Brown Coal Research Institute j. s. c. is realising the long term research and survey in the field of restoration problems. The target of these works changed during development of localities. The main problems of present days are reclamation during frequent hot and dry periods, the extreme alkaline soil reaction of any localities soils, occurrence of phytotoxic and sterile areas and methodology of areas retained to natural succession founding. The article is devoted to the methodology of research and to the de...

Soil is a non-renewable resource and we should also treat it accordingly. Urbanization of natural land is a long-term global problem which results in expansion of anthropogenic soils. Effective use of so called brownfield sites could be one of the ways to eliminate the negative impact of the areas affected by urbanization. Brownfields are old and abandoned areas of former industrial and commercial zones within towns or other settlements, which have lost their original use and at the same time pose a possible ecolo...

The contribution aims to unify the procedures for the creation of anthropogenic soil profiles in the mining areas of the Ore Mountains foothills (Podkrusnohori) and to present a comprehensive overview of the possibilities of using permanent grasslands in soil protection with a focus on the Usti nad Labem Region in the Podkrusnohori area, especially the wider area of the Most Basin, where the creation of anthropogenic soil profiles is an essential part of the technical reclamation of spoil tip and quarrying sites. ...

Hydrological reclamations are one way of eliminating consequences of surface mining of coal. The residual quarries occupy extensive areas and the most effective way how to integrate them into the surrounding landscape is their flooding. This will create a new water area that can be used recreationally and could also serve as a habitat or a migration point for different plant and animal species. The contribution is focused on northern part of the Czech Republic (The Most Basin) where brown coal has been mined for n...