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The legal rules applicable to soil and waste affected by mining activity should be adapted to include scientific and technical progress in recent years.
Thus the environmental impact of soil and waste from extractive industries areas would be reduced.
This is one of the proposals contained in the doctoral thesis of Guadalupe Rosique, defended at the School of Agricultural Engineering of the UPCT and qualified with the highest score Cum Laude.
The new doctor, a lawyer by profession, in his thesis combines legal and scientific-technical knowledge.
The doctoral thesis "Waste management and contaminated soil from metal mining: Technical, environmental problems and regulatory framework," concludes that "inadequate" legal treatment is having a strong impact on environmental health.
Likewise, it is also allowing the lack of consideration of the status of dangerousness of these mining areas and metal mining waste.
"Environmental problems of mining areas, toxicity and hazards of the materials, propitiate that are allowing certain uses of these contaminated soils and for filling in coastal areas or foundation roads in areas not contaminated waste," according to the new Ph.D. .
The gap, according to research, is allowing improper use, for example in the Mar Menor, which are generating dispersion.
One such example is in La Manga, in a place where there have been filled with material from the mining area.
This generates a dispersion into the atmosphere, soil and water, according to the director of the thesis, Gregorio Garcia, Department of Agricultural Science and Technology.
The director of the doctoral thesis explained that current regulations on waste management metal mining does not provide adequately or hazardous and toxic nature of these contaminated wastes and soils or limitations on the use, handling and waste management and mining areas.
To make the doctoral thesis, Guadalupe Rosique has thoroughly analyzed the European and national legislation and case law and compared it with scientific and technical progress since the 70s of last century.
The author did his thesis in the PhD program in Advanced Techniques in Food and Agricultural Research and Development (TAIDA).
Part of the conclusions of this study were presented at the conference of contaminated soils and health Biolaw, held on 15 April at the University of Murcia.
Law graduate and Doctor Agronomist
Guadalupe cartagenera Rosique, practicing lawyer, has always devoted his professional life to the environment.
Right at the end, he attended a master's degree in environment, and won a scholarship at the Port Authority of Cartagena.
During that period he was in contact with engineers from the agency and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.
At that time he met the professor Joaquin Moreno Claver, who introduced the research field and conveyed his passion for the environment.
Finally, his doctoral thesis, combines legislation and the environment.
Source: UPCT
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