Tag: risk management

• April 21, 2020

  Understanding Public Perceptions of a New Pit Lake in As Pontes, Spain

  The introduction of coal mining in the 1940’s transformed the landscape and economy of As Pontes, Spain. Industrialisation created successive waves of economic and population booms, but when the mining slowed in the 1990s, the region experienced economic depression. Real and perceived social divisions and environmental abuses on the part of the mining company remained…

• April 16, 2015

  Time evolution of stress under an artificial lake and its implication for induced seismicity

  Abstract The time history of stress beneath a realistic artificial lake with a realistic loading history on a permeable lithosphere can be calculated by solving the consolidation equations for a uniform permeable medium. The evolution of stress conditions towards or away from a Mohr–Coulomb failure envelope illustrates that highest risk of induced seismicity exists at…