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.