The article is devoted to the issues of reclamation of lands disturbed by the mining industry and the prospects of providing ecosystem services by reclaimed lands. Although coal mining makes an important contribution to the country’s economy, in many regions there are significant conflicts between mining enterprises and local communities regarding the preservation of biodiversity, natural resources, and ensuring a stable ecological situation in coal-mining regions. The domestic and international experiences of reclamation of disturbed lands under terricones and the experience of reformatting terricones for other purposes were analyzed. The essence of the concept of ecosystem services was analyzed. It was established that after reclamation measures the disturbed lands under terricones could provide the following ecosystem services: regulating, provisioning, cultural and supporting. With the help of Google Earth software, the estimated areas of the disturbed lands under the terricones were determined. The existing and most acceptable terricones for reclamation measures in the studied coal basin were selected for the prospective assessment of ecosystem services of the disturbed lands under the terricones and on the adjacent territories. Four types of reclamation directions were proposed for the specified territories: sanitary-hygienic, forestry, construction and recreational. The code of terricones ecosystems was established according to EUNIS classification before and after reclamation measures. Ecosystem services were determined according to the CICES classification. In the future they could be obtained after the reclamation of disturbed lands under terricones
Received 12.01.2023
Revised 29.03.2023
Accepted 07.06.2023
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