Аннотация:The documented damaging environmental consequences of smelting processes in industrial regions like Sudbury, Canada, and the Kola Peninsula, Russia, now require that the mining industry life cycle planning includes restoration of ecosystems as a key component of the social license to operate. The sustainable forested ecosystem recovery within the watersheds in the Sudbury area is today one of the most the well-known examples of environmental restoration from industrial damage. In the Kola Peninsula, any successful vegetation restoration in smelter impacted landscapes depends on the careful selection of the imposed remediation technology. The construction of a fertile layer on the soil surface to create an Anthrosol is a more promising approach to drive regional ecosystem restoration in the changing climate of today. The enhanced ecosystem primary production from planned and effective soil management will contribute to enhanced carbon sequestration in the degraded lands to, in turn, promote further economic and social development in industrial region.
