Testing the Applicability and Credibility of the High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) Toolkit: A Systematic Global Review

B Abbasnezhad, JB Abrams - Small-scale Forestry, 2022 - Springer
The evaluation of conservation practices has become increasingly important to many
environmental scientists, land managers, and policymakers due to rising concerns regarding …

Impact of mining and industrial pollution on stream macroinvertebrates: importance of taxonomic resolution, water geochemistry and EPT indices for impact detection

IA Wright, MM Ryan - Hydrobiologia, 2016 - Springer
This study investigated freshwater macroinvertebrate communities in waterways
contaminated by active and abandoned mining and industrial activities in order to ascertain …

Increased water pollution after closure of Australia's longest operating underground coal mine: a 13-month study of mine drainage, water chemistry and river ecology

IA Wright, K Paciuszkiewicz, N Belmer - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2018 - Springer
This study investigated the water pollution impact of mine drainage from an underground
colliery that had stopped mining 3 years earlier. After more than a century of operation, the …

Coal mine water pollution and ecological impairment of one of Australia's most 'protected'high conservation-value rivers

IA Wright, N Belmer, PJ Davies - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2017 - Springer
The environmental regulation of a coal mine in the greater Sydney area has failed to
recognise the importance of and protect a high conservation-value river located in a World …

Threat-abatement framework confirms habitat retention and invasive species management are critical to conserve Australia's threatened species

SG Kearney, JEM Watson, AE Reside, DO Fisher… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Earth's extinction crisis is escalating, and threat classification schemes are increasingly
important for assessing the prominent drivers and threats causing species declines …

Threat perception and adaptive capacity of natural world heritage site management

MT Falk, E Hagsten - Environmental management, 2023 - Springer
This study offers new insights into the largest threats to natural and mixed World Heritage
sites in developed countries as considered by their management. In addition to this, the …

Transition or transformation: shifting priorities and stakeholders in Australian mined land rehabilitation and closure

CJ Unger, JA Everingham, CJ Bond - Australasian Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article is a retrospective study of the shifting priorities and stakeholders over the last
four decades of Australia's mine rehabilitation and closure practices. We map the evolution …

Water quality impact from the discharge of coal mine wastes to receiving streams: comparison of impacts from an active mine with a closed mine

P Price, IA Wright - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2016 - Springer
This study examined two underground coal mines in the Sydney basin and investigated the
water chemistry impact from their wastewater discharges to surface receiving waters. One …

Investigation of dielectric constants of water in a nano-confined pore

H Zhu, F Yang, Y Zhu, A Li, W He, J Huang, G Li - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the dielectric properties of pure water confined in a silica hydrophilic nanopore
determined from the computation of the density of liquid in the confined phase by the grand …

14-month water quality investigation of coal mine discharge on two rivers in NSW, Australia: implications for environmental regulation

C Fleming, K Morrison, L Robba, J Reynolds… - Water, Air, & Soil …, 2021 - Springer
Ineffective environmental regulation of effluent discharged from an underground coal mine
operation has enabled water pollution within two highly valued Australian rivers. This study …