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  "abstract": "River sand and gravel are mined worldwide at volumes that now rival their natural replenishment, yet quantitative knowledge of this mining activity and its consequences lags far behind many other global environmental pressures. We synthesize 411 peer‐reviewed studies published since 1974 within a new Driver‐to‐Management Pathway for Sustainable Sand and Gravel Mining framework that links socio‐economic demand, spatial‐temporal extent of extraction, hydrogeomorphic change, socio‐ecological disruption, and management response. Evidence shows a pronounced scale mismatch: regional‐to‐global drivers fuel largely unreported local extraction, while impacts propagate well beyond mining sites. In most documented cases, annual removal exceeds bed‐material supply several‐fold, producing channel incision, bank collapse, declining groundwater tables, deteriorating water quality, and inland migration of saline water in coastal areas. These physical changes cascade into habitat loss, infrastructure damage, and livelihood insecurity, especially across rapidly developing regions of Asia and Africa. Despite the proliferation of impact studies (69% of the literature), research is dominated by hydrogeomorphic perspectives, with ecological and socio‐economic impacts far more often treated as secondary or co‐occurring components rather than primary foci; meanwhile, only 27% of studies quantify extraction extent and 24% analyze demand drivers, hampering the design of effective interventions. Together, these findings highlight the need for basin‐scale monitoring, cross‐boundary governance, and demand‐side interventions that explicitly link extraction limits to sediment budgets.",
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    "Department of Informatics, Natural Resources and Environment Institute for Environment and Resources Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh Vietnam",
    "Department of Geography McGill University Montreal QC Canada",
    "Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science University of Illinois Urbana‐Champaign Champaign IL USA",
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    "Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus‐Senftenberg Brandenburg Germany",
    "Department of Social Science Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies York University Toronto ON Canada",
    "Department of Biology McGill University Montreal QC Canada",
    "Department of Earth Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur UP India",
    "Postgraduate Program in Geology and Geochemistry Institute of Geosciences Federal University of Pará Belém Brazil",
    "Environmental Engineering Department São Paulo State University (UNESP) São José dos Campos Brazil",
    "College of Hydrology and Water Resources Hohai University Jiangsu China",
    "School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore Singapore",
    "State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing Wuhan University Wuhan China",
    "Presidency University Kolkata West Bengal India"
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