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The purpose of this research is to establish an environmental management zoning for coal mining industry which is served as a basis for making environmental management policies. Based on the specific impacts of coal mining and regional characteristics of environment and resources, the ecological impact, water resources impact, and arable land impact are chose as the zoning indexes to construct the index system. The ecological sensitivity is graded into three levels of low, medium, and high according to analytical hierarchy processes and gray fixed weight clustering analysis, and the water resources sensitivity is divided into five levels of lower, low, medium, high, and higher according to the weighted sum of sub-indexes, while only the arable land sensitive zone was extracted on the basis of the ratio of arable land to the county or city. By combining the ecological sensitivity zoning and the water resources sensitive zoning and then overlapping the arable-sensitive areas, the mainland China is classified into six types of environmental management zones for coal mining except to the forbidden exploitation areas.
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Shenhua Research Institute. Study on the Standard and Policy of Ecological Civilization Mining, 2015.
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The financial was supported by the Ministry of Environment Protection, P.R. China with a grand no. 200809072.
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Geng, H., Chen, F., Wang, Z. et al. Environmental management zoning for coal mining in mainland China based on ecological and resources conditions. Environ Monit Assess 189, 228 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-017-5932-4
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