for flood mitigation and supply of irrigation water, gravel and sand mining are the causes of changing fluvial dynamics over the last decades throughout the world (Bhattacharyya 2011; Rascher et al. 2018). To ensure the augmentations of human requirements along with economic development, sand mining provided the multi-Web
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Sand mining which been a major contributor to economic growth and development has turned out to be a source of environmental degradation based on the fact that the renewal rate of sand is lower ...Web
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The present article aims at:. investigating and assessing the environmental impacts of sand mining from rivers. investigating social problems caused by sand mining from river mines. investigating economic impacts of sand work sites on local communities. Considering these goals the article tries to answer these questions: 1.Web
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This causes localized accelerated/severe coastal erosion and enormous environmental degradation and threat to coastal properties. Illegal sand mining is presently a big industry in Tanzania, employing many youths, and has become a social, economic, and environmental problem. ... economic, and environmental problem. The problem of illegal …Web
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It also causes severe social and economic transformation that leads to specific social dynamics marked by the marginalisation of certain ethnic minorities. This invites us to rethink the right to the city and the landscape in the moment of reclaiming land. ... We also denounce the environmental injustice of sand mining projects, ...Web
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Sand is considered one of the most consumed natural resource, being essential to many industries, including building construction, electronics, plastics, and water filtration. This paper assesses the environmental impact of sand extraction and the problems associated with its illegal exploitation. The analysis indicates that extracting sand at a …Web
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Abstract and Figures. Sand mining which been a major contributor to economic growth and development has turned out to be a source of environmental degradation based on the fact that the renewal ...Web
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impacts of mining in terms of land use change and river degradation. 2. Method This paper was a result of a library research done through reviews of booksand journals tracking, focused on the environmental impacts of sand and gravel mining and its relation to sustainable development. This paper was only based on secondary data. TheWeb
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the list of crucial hotspots for sand mining impacts in rivers. 2 Unauthorized mining of river sand causes riverbank erosion, loss of riparian habitat, lowering of river beds, shrinking …Web
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Mining of Sand and gravel is one of the important economic activities practiced in the Eastern Dooars. Ever-expanding human needs and economic progress creates a massive load on the natural asset ...Web
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consume more and more sand. And the impacts are certainly cause for concern.May 15 floodplains and deltas – and demand is only set to grow as development the Wisconsin economy has created about the same number of …Jun 30 2013· The economic impact of frac-sand production in west central Wisconsin is likely to be quite small.Web
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IMPACTS. The disappearance of a riverbank or a beach will certainly have impacts on humans, marine animals, and the ecosystems. Sand exploitation also has a negative effect on the climate change phenomenon. Direct impact is related to the extraction process and transport; and indirect impact to the cement production.Web
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other immediate means of economic income. Sand mining creates a range of informal jobs and local income with resultant socio-economic opportunities. Although the industry is still male dominated, there are a number of women and youth who are engaged in small business enterprises in sand and gravel mining in West Africa. The practice can be ...Web
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As a ubiquitous global activity today, sand mining is both a socio-economic issue and an environmental sustainability dilemma which requires close monitoring and rigorous analyses. Hence, the challenge really is the understanding of the drivers of sand mining activities and their socio-environmental implications.Web
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Sand mining is causing environmental damage worldwide. In some places locals dig out riverbanks with shovels and haul it away with pickup trucks or donkeys; in others multinational companies ...Web
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Sand mining in coastal Ghana. Sand mining refers to the extraction of sand from an open pit from agricultural or forest lands, beaches, inland dunes, beaches, and river beds mainly for construction purposes (Rentier, and Cammeraat, 2022). Sand mining at the coast is a common phenomenon in developing countries, including Ghana.Web
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Sand mining caused effects on the environments (Meki river) by depth many holes dug in different places as people engaged increased, the river bed has expanded in both directions north-south of kebeles, as well as the river bed degraded by sand miners path time to time and vegetation roots destroyed and fall down on the river surrounding, The ...Web
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The two greatest drivers of sand mining are the resource's use as aggregate in concrete, and as nourishment sand for beach reconstruction to protect coastal property (the consumer of much of the concrete). The immediate result has created a litany of environmental, social, and economic damages. Globally, most sand mining is done in …Web
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Sand mining leads to negative changes or causes alternations in the ecosystem service and its components, like declines in fish or endangered species (Neupane et al., 2020). As the population of the world increases, the extraction of sand will increase as it reaches up to 50 billion metric tonnes in 2023, an increase of 6% annually, …Web
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The chapter discusses the conceptual and theoretical perspectives to sand mining as an activity. It examines the meaning of sand mining, what motivates sand mining, the theory of sustainable development, and the concept of livelihoods. The importance of this discussion is to guide the study on the knowledge frontier in sand …Web
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Rogue operators routinely bribe officials, and even the courts prove powerless. A policeman was crushed to death by a tractor while trying to halt illegal mining in a national sanctuary for the Indian crocodile, the gharial, in Madhya Pradesh. Violent gangs protect sand miners around Nairobi in Kenya.Web
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Coastal and river sand has been extracted at an accelerated pace, and on a much grander scale. A litany of environmental, social, and economic damages. Globally, most sand mining is done in opposition to local opinion and laws. Sand mining also has become the basis of the formation of violence-prone sand mafias.Web
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Sand mining is a global activity that has attracted wide attention due partly to its invaluable positive contributions to development and partly to its negative socio-environmental impacts. While sand mining supports urbanization by providing essential aggregate materials for urban real estate and construction sectors, it however …Web
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The effects of river sand mining can also be seen at the coast where the lack of sand replenishment can cause beaches and dunes to erode faster and therewith offer less protection against storm surges, tsunamis and sea level rise (Shaghude et al., 2012 ). 5. Effects on the biological environment.Web
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Sand is an indispensable natural resource for any society. Despite society's increasing dependence on sand, there are major challenges that this industry needs to deal with: limited sand resources, illegal mining, and environmental impact of sand mining. The purpose of this paper is twofold: to present an overview of the sand market, highlighting …Web
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In sum, marine sand mining can cause several types of losses on fisheries. These include: • Short-term effects during the assumed 1-year mining and the seven-month habitat recovery period, • Long-term effects after full recovery of the habitat and through the time to recovery of affected species stocks to their pre-mining status, •Web
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"1. The State is entitled to exploit the sand by quarrying itself on the Government lands, which are not covered by the mining leases of the writ petitioners. The same is applicable to patta lands subject to the permission of the landholders or their tenants or lessees in occupation, which are not covered by the mining leases. 2.Web
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In Kerala, current sand mining policies are either less integrated, less enforced, lacking, or exploitative to the marine and coastal resources (read Blue …Web
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While sand has become a scarce essential resource for construction and land reclamation worldwide, its extraction causes severe ecological damage and high social costs. To derive policy solutions to this paramount global challenge with broad applicability, this model-based analysis exemplarily studies sand trade from Southeast Asia to …Web
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