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Remediating Mining Landscapes
Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, Norway; Department of Architecture and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
Division of Social Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden.
Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Philosophy and History, History of Science, Technology and Environment.
2022 (English)In: Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities: The New Extractivist Paradigm, Cambridge University Press (CUP) , 2022, p. 185-205Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This chapter explores mining as a social process of continuous change into the future. Following new environmental legislation, environmental remediation and re-wilding are becoming practices of restoring landscapes altered by extraction. These are also political, social, and cultural processes involving multiple actors making choices. Remediation and re-wilding, still in an exploratory stage in the Arctic, demonstrate the entangled nature of sustainability. In order for extraction to become “sustainable” it is essential that governance has a focus on what is left when peak extraction is passed. If that is done in a hasty and irresponsible manner it will take a long time to heal “landscape scars” and other wounds that extraction has brought. The chapter focuses on the environmental remediation of two former mining sites – the Nautanen mine in Norrbotten in Sweden and the Lunckefjell mine and Sveagruvan on Svalbard – with very different contexts. At Lunckefjell, the wider framework was to safeguard Norwegian sovereignty on Svalbard. At Nautanen, remediation was limited to an attempt to make a profit from mining waste and eventually failed because of a conflict over responsibility.

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Cambridge University Press (CUP) , 2022. p. 185-205
Keywords [en]
Abandoned mines, Arctic, Geopoltics, Industrial heritage, Mine waste, Transformation
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Technology and Environmental History Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-384852DOI: 10.1017/9781009110044.015Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105023603216OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-384852DiVA, id: diva2:2084515
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Available from: 2026-07-06 Created: 2026-07-06 Last updated: 2026-07-06Bibliographically approved

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