LEADER 05156nam 22007455 450 001 9910254010503321 005 20230323174305.0 010 $a9783319539751 010 $a9783319539768 (e-book) 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-53976-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000001072683 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-53976-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4810646 035 $a(PPN)198870469 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001072683 100 $a20170220d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 13$aAn Assessment of Mine Legacies and How to Prevent Them $eA Case Study from Latin America /$fby Vladimir Pacheco Cueva 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 61 p. 2 illus.) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,$x2191-5547 311 $a3-319-53976-0 311 $a3-319-53975-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aChapter 1. Methodology -- Chapter 2. Knowledge about Mine Legacies, International Best Practice Standards and Mine Closure Regulation in the USA and El Salvador -- Chapter 3. Social and Historical Remarks about Mining in San Sebastian and Assessment of the Mine?s Current Legal Status -- Chapter 4. Legacies of the San Sebastian Mine -- Chapter 5. Reform, Awareness, Prevention and Remediation Strategies -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis book seeks to enrich the growing literature on mine legacies by examining a case study of a small abandoned mine in Latin America. Using a combination of Rapid Rural Appraisal and secondary source analysis, this study assessed some of the most damaging legacies of the San Sebastian mine in eastern El Salvador, compared the country?s mine closure legislation against world?s best practice standards and provided strategies for awareness, prevention and remediation. The most damaging legacy to the environment is that of Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) contamination of the local river. The impact of AMD is felt well beyond the mining district and the costs of prevention and remediation were found to be significant. Apart from environmental legacies, the mine also left a number of socio-economic legacies including: limited access to non-polluted water that results in San Sebastian residents devoting a high proportion of their income in obtaining water, lost opportunities due to the cessation of mining, uncertain land tenure situation and increasing growth of ASGM activities that exacerbate already existing environmental pollution due to use of mercury. The study also found that the state?s capacity to ensure compliance with the law is very weak and that in many important respects the country?s current legal framework does not meet world?s best practice when it comes to mine closure requirements. The findings are important because they demonstrate that the lack of closure planning can lead to private operators socializing the costs of pollution. The study also shows that the lack of state capacity may result in extractive projects becoming socio-economic liabilities in the long term. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,$x2191-5547 606 $aWater pollution 606 $aHydrology 606 $aEnvironmental management 606 $aMineral resources 606 $aPolitical planning 606 $aEnvironmental economics 606 $aWaste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U35040 606 $aHydrology/Water Resources$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/211000 606 $aWater Policy/Water Governance/Water Management$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/215000 606 $aMineral Resources$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G38010 606 $aPublic Policy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911060 606 $aEnvironmental Economics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W48000 615 0$aWater pollution. 615 0$aHydrology. 615 0$aEnvironmental management. 615 0$aMineral resources. 615 0$aPolitical planning 615 0$aEnvironmental economics. 615 14$aWaste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution. 615 24$aHydrology/Water Resources. 615 24$aWater Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. 615 24$aMineral Resources. 615 24$aPublic Policy. 615 24$aEnvironmental Economics. 676 $a333.8098 700 $aPacheco Cueva$b Vladimir$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01059744 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254010503321 996 $aAn Assessment of Mine Legacies and How to Prevent Them$92508060 997 $aUNINA