Overview
- Covers an overview about examples of recent catastrophic failures
- Provides detailed approaches to build a comprehensive risk management program
- Identifies risks and shows solutions to prevent further hazards
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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How to Build a Twenty-First-Century Comprehensive Risk Management Program
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Case Histories and a Look into the Future
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century
Book Subtitle: What Mining Companies Need to Know and Do to Thrive in Our Complex World
Authors: Franco Oboni, Cesar Oboni
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19447-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19446-8Published: 25 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19449-9Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19447-5Published: 13 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 278
Topics: Waste Management/Waste Technology, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Sustainable Development, Natural Hazards, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk