Land Reclamation in Ecological Fragile Areas contains the proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration (LRER 2017, Xi’an, China, 20-23 October 2017). The contributions cover a wide range of topics:

• Mining impact on environment

• Monitoring, prediction and assessment of mining impact on land environment

• Mining methods and measurements to minimize the land and environment impact

• Mining and reclamation policies, regulations and standard

• AMD treatment

• Soil and landscape reconstruction

• Revegetation and biodiversity protection

• Subsidence land reclamation and ecological restoration

• Surface mined land reclamation and ecological restoration

• Solid wastes management, waste dump and tailings pond restoration

• Case study

• Abandoned mine land reclamation and ecological restoration

• Contaminated land remediation

• Reclaimed land monitoring and evaluation

• Land reclamation supervision

• Products and industrialization

• Education, technology transfer and international cooperation of mine land reclamation

• “The Belt and Road Initiative” and mine land restoration

Land Reclamation in Ecological Fragile Areas will be of interest to engineers,scientists, consultants, government officials and students in this area.