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The main aim of our paper is to analyze and make proposals on the effective management of individual items that have a significant impact on elimination of industrial risks. Attention is paid to the issue of management of industrial risks in the industrial enterprises in Slovakia. To obtain the necessary data, we draw information from internal materials of enterprises. For management, it is important to know what risks it could negatively affect them. Identification, quantification of impacts and subsequent propos...

In the last decade we have noticed how European Funds have expanded and today, half of EU funding is channelled through the 5 European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF). Those are mainly focused on research and innovation, digital Technologies, supporting the low-carbon economy, sustainable management of natural resources and small businesses. They are jointly managed by the European Commission and the EU countries. The purpose of all these funds is to invest in job creation and a sustainable and healthy Euro...

Explosive risk occurs in all activities involving flammable substances in the form of gases, vapors, mists or dusts which, in mixture with air, can generate an explosive atmosphere. As explosions can cause human losses and huge material damage, the assessment of the explosion risk and the establishment of appropriate measures to reduce it to acceptable levels according to the standards and standards in force is of particular importance for the safety and health of people and goods.There is no yet a recognized meth...

The system of training people in the area of population protection and crisis management consists of two basic levels of education. The first level includes professional qualification education through the acquisition of a qualification or higher qualification of higher professional education, higher education in a bachelor or master study program or in higher study programs. Second level focus on further vocational education is intended for target groups of workers with a focus on the deepening of the skills requ...

The paper presents the hazards related to invasive plant species in the area of the Mszana community, located in the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland. The community is of an industrial-agricultural nature. Its surface area is approx. 31.3 km?. Settlements are focused along the main roads and transportation routes. Influence of mining activity is clearly visible in the area in the form of coal waste dumping grounds, subsidence troughs and fens. Approx. 70% of its surface is occupied by arable lands, while 7%...

The paper deals with RM/RA CRAMM an original methodology is a comprehensive risk assessment method for crisis management, which consists of identifying, analyzing and assessing risk. Quantitative outcomes serve as the basis to determine the priorities of risk management to prepare preventive measures and response powers and facilities. The methodology is applicable to a wide range of risk types, including natural disasters, technological risks, including risks of natural fires, or crime risks and other risks of a ...

Until now, in Romania, approaches to noise and air pollution are strictly different. For example, the noise pollution assessment by mathematical modeling is the approach by law. This is valid both in the preliminary stage of noise mapping and at the final stage of the action plan of noise abatement measures applicable according the Directive 2002/49 /EU [1]. For air quality assessment, a different approach is legislated. In this case, a monitoring -based analysis of indices the specified is carried out and the act...

The main aim of our paper is to analyze and make proposals on the effective management of individual items that have a significant impact on elimination of industrial risks. Attention is paid to the issue of management of industrial risks in the industrial enterprises in Slovakia. To obtain the necessary data, we draw information from internal materials of enterprises. For management, it is important to know what risks it could negatively affect them. Identification, quantification of impacts and subsequent propos...

This year, for the first time in Latvia, the government will adopt a set of standards that will regulate social entrepreneurship and its goals. Social entrepreneurship means balancing social goals and the commercial component for which money is not the direct goal but rather a means of achieving social goals. The social aspect should not only target the surrounding community, but also ensure responsible and correct treatment of employees. A leader in a social enterprise has to put an end to the controlling style o...

The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis for Romania?s energetic strategy designed for 2016-2030 according to the EU direction. Energetic security for a country is the most important after the IT sector, and also the knowledge to administrate key energetic resources. Import/ export of energetic resources is the question of how Romania will decide to develop or not its natural resources. The methodology will be a SWOT analysis, a personal point of view about the strategy. The environmental impact also is...

The main purpose of this study is to highlight the actual state of energy production and consumption in Romania and to emphasize where there is potential for either reducing the greenhouse gas emissions by using more efficient heating and cooling systems for buildings or reducing the greenhouse gas emissions by using less fossil fuels and more renewable energy sources that can be tapped in Romania. In Romania despite a good thermal insulation degree for newly constructed buildings in the past 5-10 years there is s...

The paper examines the waste management issues in the villages annexed to administrative-territorial units of the Romanian cities which have been frequently neglected by urban waste operators. The lack of waste collection services in such peri-urban communities favored the illegal waste disposal practices particularly prior to EU accession. The extension of waste collection services from main cities to such areas is compulsory in order to mitigate the environmental risks and the public health threats. The paper es...

Personal subsidiary farms (PSF) refer to primary-level agricultural ecosystems engaged in non-commercial activities on production and processing of agricultural output. They satisfy a substantial proportion of food product needs and make a large contribution to the food security doctrine of the Russian Federation. PSFs solve a wide range of important socio-economic tasks, such as provision of food, litigation of unemployment, raising the income and life quality of the rural population; maintaining rural livelihood...

The publication attempts to unify the scope of reclamation works in the agricultural, forest and aquatic directions. For the analysis of the works scope, three phases of reclamation were adopted: preliminary, basic (technical) and detailed (biological). Preliminary reclamation consists in the analysis of factors affecting the selection of a reclamation direction, establishing the direction of reclamation and the development of design-estimate documentation. Basic (technical) reclamation consists in the shaping of ...

The paper presents solutions for the sealing of the foundation plate inside a compliant landfill, the conditions necessary for the selection of certain materials in execution. Geometry of landfills (shape and dimensions in horizontal and vertical planes) often follows the site's orography, is influenced by the hydrogeology of the underground profile (groundwater level, inadequate or rocky land and difficulties with excavation), stability in the slope for the maximum possible weight (also related to the angle of se...

Carrion beetles are an important part of the decomposition processes in the ecosystems of the North Hemisphere. Along with the flies, they are the main consumers of dead animal tissues, thusdriving the nutrients from the carcass to other parts of the ecosystem. These animals can also be used as bio-indicators in forensic entomology, where they help to identify the time of the death and post-mortem body manipulation. However, for using the beetles in this manner, it is essential to identify seasonal cycles in the l...

Interpretation of climate change and deglaciation events from palaeovarves requires a complete understanding of varve composition, depositional environments and the non-climatic events that may influence varve thickness record. We examined a Baltic Ice Lake varve-thickness chronology from western Estonia, eastern Baltic Sea, composed of 26 individual varve series and spanning 584 years of Late Weichselian deglaciation. The direction (azimuth) to the increasing seasonal layer thickness and correlation between the w...

Study case is river Maciovita, Caras Severin County. Sediment transport model is applicated different both in terms of time and space scale, study objectives, required accuracy, allocated resources, background of the study team etc. Sediment transport modelling, have necessity to know all characteristics of the sediment. Therefore, it is recommended to collect a number of bed sediment grap from geological study or from examples. These examples analyzed terms of grain size distribution. To solve theoretical problem...

Since ancient times, the coastal areas were natural habitats that host a wide variety of fauna and flora species and which, from an anthropological point of view, are the most populated areas of the planet. At the same time, these areas, which include deltas, lagoons and marshlands, are particularly vulnerable to the effects of global change (climate modification, sea level rise and fluctuation of sediment input) that may be triggered by anthropogenic activities (global warming due to greenhouse gases produced dur...

A brief description of analytical methods used for seismic analysis of underground structures is given. The methods take into account deformation of tunnel linings caused by seismic waves propagating transversely to the tunnel axis. Different approaches used now for seismic design are compared, examples of calculation are given. Advantages and disadvantages of the approaches are discussed. A new approach to seismic design of underground objects located on the shallow depth or near interface of different rocks is p...

This paper describes application of the seismic facies analysis method to identify prospective deposits in the carbonate sediments of the Republic of Tatarstan The Republic of Tatarstan is one of the main oil producing regions of Russia, which is one of the main global oil producers. Annually it produces about 26 million tons of oil. The main oil reserves were discovered in 1950-1980. To keep production on the high-level geoscientists apply new technologies, such as seismic facies analysis. Tatarstan succession co...

The paper presents accelerations, response spectra and spectral ratio for two tower-type buildings, one in Southern part of Bucharest, T1, at ~160 km from the epicenter zone, and other, T2, near the epicenter zone, Vrancea. These seismic characteristics are all from recorded earthquakes triggered in the above mentioned area. 3 triaxial seismic accelerometers were used on 3 levels at each building. The accelerations recorded on the analyzed structures were a result of Vrancea medium magnitude earthquakes between 20...

The complicated geodynamic situation occurred as the result of the intensive exploitation of Verkhnekamskoe potash deposit (VKMKS) was complexified by induced accidents in 1995, 2007 and 2014. Most of the city of Berezniki is located above the minefield of the BKPRU-1 mine. The exploitation of the potash since 1995 has been accompanied by continuous seismic monitoring, its data are used both for operational control and forecast purposes. Starting from the part of the mine SKRU-2 in 1995 the system has been expande...

The paper presents a detailed analysis of the seismic activity recorded in the Banloc-Voiteg seismogenic structure (Romania) located on the southeastern border of the Pannonian Depression which is characterized by pre-Alpine and Alpine structures belonging to Tisa-Dacia Microplate and, particularly by the tectonic contact between two main geodynamic blocks. The seismic activity has a clear tendency to group on active neotectonic structures and displays different space and time patterns. Until now we have documente...

The geodynamic situation in the region of the ?Rostov NPP?(next NPP) location is considered in terms of assessing the neotectonic activity of the territory and its relationship to seismicity. The authors used their own and published data, as well as the results of field seismic observations conducted by the small aperture array of the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics Russian Academy of Sciences in 2016. The estimation of vertical Pliocene-Quaternary deformations by a method of stratigraphic and geomorphic reference...

Despite the existence of many technologies allowing for recovery of coal combustion products (CCPs), they still remain a product that is problematic enough, with their industrial use in the world lying in the range 40-60%. The remaining CCPs produced in the energy industry end up in landfills or are stored, thus losing their property. One of the main directions of CCPs recovery has been, for many years, the underground mining industry, where they are used, among others, as fillings in mining excavations, component...

The paper investigates the removing of cations praseodymium (III) in the form of dodecyl sulfates from nitrates solution with cations of the REE by calculation the separation coefficients by ion flotation process. The dependences of the distribution coefficients and the degree of recovery dodecyl sulfate praseodymium (III) on the pH of the equilibrium aqueous phase are received. Experimental results, obtained in the above process, the possible applications results in technological processes and conclusions about t...

The deposits in Poland are appearing in the Miocene gypsum sediments located on the northern, marginal part of the Carpathians Foredeep subsidence basin. Up to the fifties of 20th century and the discover of the biggest sulphur deposits in all the world, the sulphuric mining existed only in Swoszowice near Krakow, Czarkowy near Stasz?w, Psz?w near Rybnik and also Pos?dza, located about 30 km northeast of Krakow. The first record of organised mining in Swoszowice appears in document dated 1415. It was a licence for...

In manufacturing conditions marking of the parts is used many times. Marking is necessary for storage, transportation, in keeping records in plants or in the exploitation by the customers. In each situation mark given to part is necessary for identification, verification of the position correctness, etc. Marking is often carrying on by bonding the labels or painting. These methods, even though in common practice have some disadvantages: the label can be broken or destroyed and paintings can be scraped off. Sometim...

Countries around the world are concerned with securing enough fuel and energy for their national economy. At present it is important supply of buildings with energy and their efficient consumption. The economical use of energy and fuel in the non-productive sphere consists of rationalizing energy consumption in the building and energy supply to the buildings. The most energy consumed is recording heating of buildings the reason is to cover thermal losses. The European Union is focusing on supporting the modernizat...

Mari El is one of the most ecologically clean areas of Russia. The local woods are famous throughout Russia and is the largest forest on the Volga river, which contain large amounts of wood and at the same time, every year increasing its use for recreation. Therefore, recreational use should pay a lot of attention. This paper examines the state of objects in the mass use of forest resources for recreational purposes on the territory of the coastal zone of suburban lakes. Conducted socio-environmental assessment at...

Environmental monitoring systems in the cities existing in modern cities allow to control the state of natural (technogenic-natural) systems according to their programs. But it is not possible to receive an information for some special locations despite their significance ? this is a case of the RUDN-University campus. For these purposes an initiative group organized a special monitoring project for the campus. One part of these monitoring program is a control of the soil air quality. This is a one of the most rep...

In the Russian Federation, in the protection of the natural and archaeological heritage, work on the creation of the Red Book of Soils of Russia and the Red Book of Soils of the Subjects of the Russian Federation have been conducted. To date, the publication of Red Books of Soils has been completed in about 10% of the subjects of the Russian Federation. Groups of Soil Scientists discovered and studied the soils for regional Red Soil books in Volgograd (Kretinin, et al., 2006), Leningrad (Aparin et al., 2007), Belg...

Among the energy sources alternative to fossil fuels, renewable energy sources such as solar garner the public?s attention, as they are available and have fewer adverse effects on the environment than do fossil fuels. Solar heating systems are a type of renewable energy technology that has been increasingly used in the past decade across Europe to provide heating, air-conditioning, and domestic hot water (DHW) for buildings. This paper provides a briefly review of the available heating technologies assisted by sol...

Starting from the seventies of the last century, action programs have been the basis for European environmental policy. They are not binding for member states, but determine the directions of policy development in this area. The seventh program includes a vision for 2050 and main purposes are: a good quality of citizen?s life, nothing wasted in the economy, restored biodiversity and low-emission growth. The changes taking place in the last thirty years in Poland resulting from the systemic transformation, the inte...

Asphaltenes are one of the very important components of heavy oil. They define the viscosity of oil and provide significant problems in production, transportation and refinery of heavy crude oil. Investigation of their agglomerations under various influence parameters is necessary for optimization of production technology. The experimental results of frequency and concentration attenuation dependency of ultrasound waves in asphaltene suspensions are discussed. A toluene and binary mixture (toluene:n-heptane) with ...

Environmental risks in waterstreams are not inconsiderable factor affecting the ecosystem and humans as part of the whole. As part of a comprehensive EU wide efforts to protect water bodies in Slovakia was adaptation of Directive 2000/60/EC which is establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy and water management. The core of the paper is an analysis of potential environmental risks in river basin Horn?d due to flooding. The aim is to identify possible sources of contamination, which...

The aim of this article is to identify and assess the sources of risk in the mining production planning process in terms of quantity and value in a hard coal mine. To implement this goal, the first part of this paper identifies sources of risk, the second part in turn describes preventative actions that the mine should undertake to minimize the risk during the mining production planning. The article makes use of deduction, mining production processes analysis and literature on mining economics. The internal source...

The use of electricity in potentially explosive atmospheres has many features for which the issues concerning the design of electrical equipment and installations raise many difficulties. One of the significant difficulties is the implementation of conditions fort ensuring explosion protection even under the conditions of failure scenarios. For low current electrical equipment (interlocking, command, data communications, signalling) the assessment of explosion protection is often carried out by calculation using t...

Rural areas are antipodes to urbanized and industrialized territories. At the same time, rural areas are obligatory components of the sustainable environment and economic development of countries and regions. The rural area mostly depends on environmental factors. Ameliorative factors, i.e. the suitability for improving the performance characteristics of the area, have the leading role as well. These factors effect on the development of agricultural production functions (specialization) and on the rural areas soci...

The pore space is an important part of a rock that affects its mechanical and petrophysical properties. Among numerous methods for pore space characterization X-ray computed microtomography (?CT) is one that provides information on the spatial distribution of pores within rocks. Followed by image processing and analysis, detailed information on orientation and shape of voids can be obtained. Hence, it is a good method for microstructural studies on the porous space. The aim of this paper is to present spatial vari...

X-ray microtomography (?CT) has been increasingly popular among geoscientists interested in reservoir rocks? pore space, as it enables studying much more parameters than solely the porosity. Because carbonate rocks can be dramatically complex with respect to their permeability, porosity, and mineral composition ? they need advanced tools like ?CT to be studied in details. Petrographically and petrophysically variable carbonate sample withdrawn from the Bro?sko Reef, West Poland was examined by means of the ?CT-bas...

The difference between an environmental project management and construction project management is in the difference between usual business operations and need of the environment sustainability. In civil engineering we need accept business operations as the core of the project management with focus on sustainable development. This article deals with the specifics in project management concept, which includes environmental components in the project structuring and providing. Nominated project manager or chief engine...

Uranium-238 is a parent radionuclide for several radioactive stable chemical elements, which presence in the therapeutic mud can cause negative consequences for patients. This paper presents the results of the study of the U-238 specific activity in the mud sediment cores of Pelenkino Lake and Bolshoi Tambukan Lake situated in two different geological and hydrological regions in the south of European Russia. The relationship between the U-238 specific activity in the mud, its pH, Eh values and the organic matter c...

The solving of the project of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic dedicated to sustainable agricultural management in the North Western Bohemia is under way from 2015 to 2018. The main attention of the 2017 and 2018 research is devoted to the research of experimental areas retained to the natural succession. The second research problem was the development of the geological parks as a part of the restoration activities. The last part of the paper is the brief information about first step of historical...

We deal with the target of our work that is to provide a general overview of the Slovak scene relating to the Startups. Our aim is to analyze the area of innovative entrepreneurship and start-ups in individual sectors of the Slovak economy (mining industry, renewable energy sources, tourism, etc.). It is necessary to state the reasons that lead to the development of startups and to analyze their impact on the economy of the national economy in terms of creating new jobs. We have explored successful and less succes...

Manganese occurrences (eg. dendrite and/or surface coating) are highly usual products of many geologic environments. Morphology, spectroscopic and chemical properties of the manganese occurrences may vary depending on mode of environments. This study is concern with manganese occurrences along the minor cracks of Miocene ignimbrite unit, which has a wide range of exposure in the Afyonkarahisar region of the inner western part of Anatolia. The host rock has light gray, yellowish white in color and characterized by ...

Underground mines from Jiu Valley have as objective the extraction of hard coal, used for energetic purposes. Exploitation activities are associated with the extraction of significant amounts of sterile, derived from opening and preparing works, but also from coal processing activity. The sterile rocks are stored in waste dumps of different sizes, which must undergo periodic stability analysis. This paper aims to estimate waste dumps stability, by using fuzzy theory, the results of such an analysis being of qualit...

Nizhne-Karmalskoye super-viscous oil deposit is located within the western slope of the South Tatar arch of the Volga-Urals anteclise. In the structural plan, the deposit is a sedimentary accumulative uplift-bar of 13 km in length, 3-5 km in width and 35-50 m in height. The uplift-bar was formed at the end of the Ufa age. According to one of the hypotheses, the sand body has a delta-baric origin. The body is composed of well-sorted fine-grained graywacke sandstones, which are now reservoir rocks of the super-visco...

Recent studies emphasized rather skeptical views shared by the Romanian stakeholders with regard to the public recognition of the central role of soil resources for assuring food security as well as the fundamental role that soils play in climate change adaptation. As stakeholder views are particularly important for understanding their values and needs, the paper aims to explore the perceptions with regard to soil quality, soil threats as well as the existence and effectives of the national and European policies o...