Browsing by Author "Gomes, Diogo"

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    Land Contamination and Brownfield Management Policy Development in China: Learning from the UK Experience
    (2016-03) Coulon, Frederic; Bardos, Paul; Harries, Nicola; Canning, Kate; Chen, Mengfang; Hu, Qing; Jones, Kevin Christopher; Li, Fasheng; Li, Hong; Gomes, Diogo; Liu, Ming; Liu, Rongxia; Yang, Xia
    Over the last 30 years, China’s fast urbanisation along with huge expansion of its manufacturing industry has led to the emergence of significant soil and water contamination problems across China. In the meantime, a number of policies and regulatory agencies for the protection of the environment have been implemented to stop deliberate pollution and more recently to address pollution prevention at source on a wider scale. Soil protection and management have been featured in policy discussions since the late 1950s in China. However, the topic has recently been of greatly expanded interest in the development of emerging policies, particularly with regards to the role of soil as a resource, independent of the functions that it carries out. Soil provides multiple important functions such as provision of food and raw materials, a platform for urban development and human wellbeing and a filtering and transforming media for water, nutrients, and carbon. However as pointed out by Yuan Si, Deputy Director of the Environmental Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of the National People Congress (China Daily, 11 March 2016), the move toward integrated management that has been driving policies for air and water has proven to be a challenge for soil management, mainly due to the multiple functions that soils provide. This is also true internationally and explained by several drivers for soil protection including among others soil contamination, construction, agriculture and amenity value.
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    Smart ground project: a new approach to data accessibility and collection for raw materials and secondary raw materials in Europe
    (Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, 2017-12-31) Dino, Giovanna Antonella; Rossetti, Piergiorgio; Biglia, Giulio; Sapino, Maria Luisa; Di Mauro, Francesco; Särkkä, Heikki; Coulon, Frederic; Gomes, Diogo; Parejo-Bravo, Lucía; Zapata Aranda, Pilar; Lopez, Antonia Lorenzo; Lopez, Jorge; Garamvölgyi, Ernő; Stojanovic, Sandra; Pizza, Antonietta; de la Feld, Marco
    Steady Raw Materials (RM) supply is essential for the EU economy and increasingly under pressure to sustain the businesses and industries demand. The supply of RM is not only a matter of availability of primary but also of secondary raw materials (SRM). In fact a great amount of waste can be regained as practical and valuable SRM by enhancing the recovery processes from industrial, mining and municipal landfill sites, especially if we consider that Europe is highly dependent on the imports of several RM. Nevertheless, there is to date no inventory of SRM at EU level. Smart Ground project aims to facilitate the availability and accessibility of data and information on SRM in the EU, as well as creating synergy and collaboration between the different stakeholders involved in the SRM value chain. In order to do so, the Smart Ground consortium is carrying out a set of activities to integrate in a single EU database all the data from existing sources and new information retrieving pilot landfills as progress is made. Such database will enable the exchange of contacts and information among the relevant stakeholders, interested in providing or obtaining SRM. Finally, Smart Ground project will also spin out the SRM economy and employment thanks to targeted training activities, organized during congresses and dedicated meeting with stakeholders and end users interested in calculating the potentiality for SRM recovery from selected landfills, contemporary constituting a dedicated network of stakeholders committed to cost-effective research, technology transfer and training.
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    SMART GROUND Project: SMART data collection and integration platform to enhance availability and accessibility of data and information in the EU territory on secondary raw materials
    (Elsevier, 2016-11-29) Dino, Giovanna Antonella; Rossetti, Piergiorgio; Biglia, Giulio; Coulon, Frederic; Gomes, Diogo; Wagland, Stuart Thomas; Luste, Sami; Särkkä, Heikki; Ver, Csaba; Delafeld, Marco; Pizza, Antonietta
    The issue of resource security has come to the forefront of the debate as Critical Materials (CRM) and Raw Materials (RM) supply is fundamental to maintain and develop EU economy. Considering the increasing scarcity and raising prices of RM, their recycling and recovery from anthropogenic deposits is essential. To date there is no homogeneous inventory available of SRM and CRM present in EU landfills, and best management practices to recover SRM from landfill activities are inefficient. In this context, the EU SMART GROUND project intends to foster resource recovery in landfills by improving the availability and the accessibility of data and information on SRM in the EU.