{"title":"Strip Mine Reclamation and Economic Analysis","authors":"D. Brooks","doi":"10.4324/9780429051128-12","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Advocating a cost-benefit approach to strip mine reclamation, this article studies the interaction of three basic goals involved in what the author considers an ecnomic undertaking: (1) national productivity, (2) quality of the environment, and (3) local employment. Public policy becomes the compromise between social benefit and minimum acceptable costs; it provides a possible framework for establishing regulations.","PeriodicalId":288094,"journal":{"name":"Coal Surface Mining","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Coal Surface Mining","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429051128-12","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Advocating a cost-benefit approach to strip mine reclamation, this article studies the interaction of three basic goals involved in what the author considers an ecnomic undertaking: (1) national productivity, (2) quality of the environment, and (3) local employment. Public policy becomes the compromise between social benefit and minimum acceptable costs; it provides a possible framework for establishing regulations.