<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Many disturbances and changes in nature are caused by a number of human activities, such as mining engineering, town planning, and also by the influences of the activities connected to these indusries.Central Kazakhstan is one of the regions of the Republic experiencing enormous pollution pressure caused by giant industry as the coal and metallurgical, mining and chemical and machine construction.The article reviews main industrial induced factors that define the spatial distribution of negative processes in semi arid climate of Central Kazakhstan where the intensive mining works have been conducted since 1940s and have led to a change of relief formation, groundwater and soil contamination. The damaged areas occupy vast territories, significantly reducing the habitable space for the population of Central Kazakhstan.The research examined two environmental components to assess and improve the ecological situation at the mining area: (a) land and water as economical component and (b) relief as main natural component.</abstract>

Many disturbances and changes in nature are caused by a number of human activities, such as mining engineering, town planning, and also by the influences of the activities connected to these indusries.Central Kazakhstan is one of the regions of the Republic experiencing enormous pollution pressure caused by giant industry as the coal and metallurgical, mining and chemical and machine construction.The article reviews main industrial induced factors that define the spatial distribution of negative processes in semi arid climate of Central Kazakhstan where the intensive mining works have been conducted since 1940s and have led to a change of relief formation, groundwater and soil contamination. The damaged areas occupy vast territories, significantly reducing the habitable space for the population of Central Kazakhstan.The research examined two environmental components to assess and improve the ecological situation at the mining area: (a) land and water as economical component and (b) relief as main natural component.

Preliminary Discussions on Impacts of Industrial Induced Factors on the Environment of Central Kazakhstan

The Kazakh National University after Al-Farabi, Almaty, the Republic of

Institute of Seismology, Almaty, the Republic of

Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics, The Kazakh National University after Al-Farabi, Almaty, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty 050059,

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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Many disturbances and changes in nature are caused by a number of human activities, such as mining engineering, town planning, and also by the influences of...

Preliminary Discussions on Impacts of Industrial Induced Factors on the Environment of Central Kazakhstan

Publié en ligne: 30 déc. 2016

Pages: 50 - 65

Reçu: 11 mai 2016

Accepté: 24 sept. 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2016-0014

Mots clés
mining activity, waste dumps, relief formation, geomorphological hazard, water and soil contamination

© 2016 Bekseitova R.T. et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Preliminary Discussions on Impacts of Industrial Induced Factors on the Environment of Central Kazakhstan

Publié en ligne: 30 déc. 2016

Pages: 50 - 65

Reçu: 11 mai 2016

Accepté: 24 sept. 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2016-0014

Mots clésmining activity, waste dumps, relief formation, geomorphological hazard, water and soil contamination

© 2016 Bekseitova R.T. et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
mining activity, waste dumps, relief formation, geomorphological hazard, water and soil contamination