Conditional Land Reuse Planning for Coal Mine Restoration in China: Evidence of Robustness and Restoration-Funding Scenarios
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Land-reuse planning after coal mining must distinguish restoration needs, evidential readiness and the ability to fund continuing obligations. This study examines that distinction through 69 Chinese mine-area units, six purposively selected coal-related electricity statements and one monthly monitoring report for 13 plants within a single base. Recalculation of the inventory reveals 22 distinct substantive score profiles. Separating data completeness from physical restoration difficulty changes the screening category of 7 units; a 20% perturbation of one indicator weight changes up to 10 categories. Thus, complete scoring does not imply stable prioritization. We connect this screening diagnosis to non-compensatory land-use prerequisites and a task-based restoration-funding condition. Capacity-denominator reconciliation changes normalized electricity output by 0.06–15.01% in the monitored dataset. In the Huainan demonstration, floating photovoltaics and aquatic recovery remain unresolved but require different investigations. A discounted funding extension shows how degradation and additional dated obligations can remove an apparent maintenance surplus. The contribution is an auditable separation of investigation priority, alternative-specific eligibility and financial coverage under incomplete evidence. The findings support conditional documentary planning rather than national rankings, validated project profitability or observed ecological recovery.
Source: Land
DOI: 10.3390/land15101985
Authors: Dongyue Zhang, Gui Lu
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,137
OpenAlex ID: W7222488355
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