CESMINE is an EU-funded project that explores the role of community environmental interactions and benefits (so-called cultural ecosystem services) in successful transition from mining to post-mining economies and how different post-mining land use planning and management practices contribute to this transition. CESMINE’s focus is on small-scale mining producing industrial minerals and construction materials, such as natural stone, sand, gravel, limestone, and salt – so-called quarrying.  The project is based at the research group Social-Ecological Interactions in Agricultural Systems.