Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Coal Industry

The application of strategic environmental assessment of coal industry to improve industrial environment and adjust industrial structure is urgently needed. First, a combination of practical situations of coal industry and theory-based dynamicmethod of strategic environmental assessment, would enablea further development of related strategic environmental assessment that could be applied more effectively when deals with coal industry in practice. Second, based onmodern ecological theory, strategic environmental assessment could help reveal theinfluence of coal industryon ecological and environmental aspects and associatedmechanisms. Third, strategic environmental assessment, as well as traditional prevention and control research, could be used as indicators of the development trend of coal industry. Our results showed that when strategic environmental assessment was applied to coal industry, it could provide a strongmethodology guidance and help reveal potential mechanisms. On the other hand, from the perspective of model ecological theory, strategic environmental assessment could reflect the applicability and feasibility of related theories in practice.