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Record Nr.

UNINA9910366651903321

Autore

Oboni Franco

Titolo

Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century [[electronic resource] ] : What Mining Companies Need to Know and Do to Thrive in Our Complex World / / by Franco Oboni, Cesar Oboni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-19447-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages)

Disciplina

622.28

Soggetti

Waste management

Environmental monitoring

Sustainable development

Natural disasters

Geotechnical engineering

Quality control

Reliability

Industrial safety

Waste Management/Waste Technology

Monitoring/Environmental Analysis

Sustainable Development

Natural Hazards

Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences

Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Two Recent Catastrophic Tailing Dams Accidents -- Examples of Recent Catastrophic Hydro-Dam Accidents -- Historic Failures “Statistics” -- What the Public Wants; Public Reactions -- Justifying the Need for new Approaches -- Let’s start with some serious Don’ts! -- System Definition -- Hazard Identification -- Defining Probabilities of Events -- Dam Stability Failures -- Consequences -- Tolerance and Acceptability -- Risk Assessment for the Twenty-First



Century -- Risk-Informed Decision Making.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a comprehensive approach to address the need to improve the design of tailings dams, their management and the regulation of tailings management facilities to reduce, and eventually eliminate, the risk of such facilities failing. The scope of the challenge is well documented in the report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and GRID Arendal entitled “Mine Tailings Storage: Safety Is No Accident,” which was released in October 2017. The report recommends that “Regulators, industry and communities should adopt a shared, zero-failure objective to tailings storage facilities…” and identifies several areas where further improvements are required. In this context, the application of cutting-edge risk-assessment methodologies and risk-management practices can contribute to a significant reduction and eventual elimination of dam failures through Risk Informed Decision Making. As such, the book focuses on identifying and describing the risk-assessment approaches and risk-management practices that need to be implemented in order to develop a way forward to achieve socially acceptable levels of tailings dam risk.