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Short-form practice notes from the field and the desk. Aimed at proponents, regulators and the practitioners we work alongside.
Setting Native Ecosystem Targets: Why Reference Sites Matter More Than Pre-Mining Baselines
Mine rehabilitation targeting native ecosystems faces a fundamental question: what does success look like? The instinctive answer—’restore what was there before’—overlooks a reality that three decades of rehabilitation science has made clear…
Read methodStrategic Targets: Matching Rehabilitation to Post-Mining Realities
Mining fundamentally alters the abiotic building blocks of a landscape. Modern rehabilitation science focuses on designing functional, self-sustaining ecosystems carefully matched to post-mining realities…
Read noteClosure Ecology: Linking Mine Closure Through an Ecological Lens
Mine closure is managed across multiple disciplines, but they lack a common integrating framework. Closure ecology links these disciplines through ecological thinking—recognising that every closure decision ultimately shapes the ecosystems that must persist long after relinquishment…
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