From Tailings to Tillings: Designing the Legal Framework for Mine Wasteland Rehabilitation Through Bioremediation

Hanri Mostert, Alexander Paterson and Louie van Schalkwyk ()
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Louie van Schalkwyk: Mineral Law in Africa, University of Cape Town

Working Papers from University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit

Abstract: The assessment of the applicable legislation and policies concluded that the current legal framework for environmental rehabilitation of mine wasteland, the regulation of land use, the contractual basis of relationships, and the protection of communities is largely reactive. It is a framework of sticks, rather than carrots. In legislation dealing with mine land rehabilitation, this is probably to be expected. However, our legal system has not previously catered for innovative methods of mine land rehabilitation such as the one being explored by the FFI.

Keywords: Legal frameworks; mine wasteland rehabilitation; bioremediation; mineral law in africa; fibrous plants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 74 pages
Date: 2019-10
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Published as MLiA DSI-NRF CoP Working Paper Series by the Development Policy Research Unit, October 2019, pages 1-74

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