Notes on Art as/and Land Reclamation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7936716 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Morris (0000-0001-9303-3204, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Pages | 87 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | October (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/778576 |
| OpenAlex | W2315531022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The issue of art's potential involvement in land reclamation can only be focused through a perspective on the history, conflicts, and confusion involved in that admittedly broad cluster of topics related to land abuse: technology, mining, governmental policy and regulations, ecological concerns, and public opinion. For some time there has been public concern over the effects of constantly accelerating programs for the extraction of nonrenewable resources from the land. Adverse effects on the environment range from the aesthetic to the toxic. Leaving aside for a moment the aesthetic effects, mining operations for natural resources have threatened the following: loss of topsoil; wind and water erosion; landslides; elimination of wildlife; acid, toxic, or mineralized water pollution; sedimentation; floods; loss of water table; destruction of man-made property from the effects of some of the above, plus those of blasting; other socially related degradations such as local economic losses, poisoning of livestock, etc. With these various degradations to the environment, three basic types of mining operations have been associated: deep mining and two types of surface mining, open pit and strip. Surface mining, especially stripping operations, has the worst environmental consequences. With recent technological developments of mining equipment such as large augers and gigantic shovels and drag lines like the Gem of Egypt and the Big Muskie (the latter having a scoop capacity of over 200 cubic yards, over 300 tons), stripping has become the dominant mining operation, especially in the extraction of coal. In the immediate future, the surface mining of coal will increase enormously. Even though in the United States the ratio is 8 to 1 in favor of deep reserves (355 billion tons versus 45 billion tons), between 1966 and 1971 the number of surface mines roughly doubled, while the number of deep mines dropped by more than one half. The reason for the shift is
Archaeology · Architectural engineering · Art · Geography · Land reclamation · Aeolian processes and effects · Engineering · Soil erosion and sediment transport · Tree Root and Stability Studies
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2026 (44) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |