It is possible to characterize the following topics in the field of Environmental Geotechnics:
1.Geotechnics and the environment - environmental impacts, interaction building - environment.
2. Geotechnical risk assessment, management and sustainability - risks and their assessment - risk types, risk management, baseline study, risk analysis.
3. Geotechnical measures to eliminate or minimize the effects of geohazards (e.g. earthquakes, slope instability including landslides, floods, droughts,)
4.Contamination of soils and waters - monitoring, prediction of mobilization and transport, preventive and reparative measures.
5. Construction of waste disposals (including mining wastes), current knowledge of the design of engineering barriers - covers, liners, underground impermeable walls, reactive barriers, application of geosynthetics in geo-environmental engineering, etc.
6.Problems of underground storage of waste.
a/ Geosequestration of CO2,
b/ Deep radioactive waste disposal,
c/ Underground gas storage,
7. Environmental impacts of mining activities – mine abandonment.
a/ Mining waste - tailings, tailings dams, leaching fields - construction and redevelopment,
b/ Geotechnical problems of mining - stability of pit walls - "depressurization"
c/ Environmental impacts of mining - flooding, shafts stability, gas emanations,
d/ Monitoring of old environmental legacies, potential use of old mine workings and mine water.
1.Geotechnics and the environment - environmental impacts, interaction building - environment.
2. Geotechnical risk assessment, management and sustainability - risks and their assessment - risk types, risk management, baseline study, risk analysis.
3. Geotechnical measures to eliminate or minimize the effects of geohazards (e.g. earthquakes, slope instability including landslides, floods, droughts,)
4.Contamination of soils and waters - monitoring, prediction of mobilization and transport, preventive and reparative measures.
5. Construction of waste disposals (including mining wastes), current knowledge of the design of engineering barriers - covers, liners, underground impermeable walls, reactive barriers, application of geosynthetics in geo-environmental engineering, etc.
6.Problems of underground storage of waste.
a/ Geosequestration of CO2,
b/ Deep radioactive waste disposal,
c/ Underground gas storage,
7. Environmental impacts of mining activities – mine abandonment.
a/ Mining waste - tailings, tailings dams, leaching fields - construction and redevelopment,
b/ Geotechnical problems of mining - stability of pit walls - "depressurization"
c/ Environmental impacts of mining - flooding, shafts stability, gas emanations,
d/ Monitoring of old environmental legacies, potential use of old mine workings and mine water.