Considering critical infrastructures in the land use planning policy around Seveso plants

Delvosalle, Christian; Robert, Benoît; Nourry, Joachim; Gao, Yulai; Brohez, Sylvain; Delcourt, Jérémy

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2016.08.001

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“…The consequence-approach, which can be placed, regarding the complexity of analysis, between the generic-distance approach and the risk-based approach (Christou et al 1999), is a reasonable option in Polish conditions. It would allow for the more detailed analysis than the generic distance approach (which has been adopted for example in Germany and Sweden (Christou and Matarelli 2000)) and still is not as complex as the QRA approach (which has got a long tradition in the UK (Francis et al 1999;Carter and Hirst 2000) and Netherlands (Bottelberghs 2000;Basta et al 2007) and has been proposed in Flanders (Khahzad and Reniers 2015) and the Walloon region of Belgium (Delvosalle et al 2011(Delvosalle et al , 2016). The literature review has shown that the consequence-based approach is still the most common in EU countries.…”

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“…Generally, three main approaches have been identified (Christou et al 1999): a generic-safety distance approach, in which safety distances are determined depending on the type of activity and not based on the detailed analysis of the specific site; a consequencebased approach, in which consequences of credible accidents are assessed, without explicitly quantifying the likelihood of these accidents; and a risk-based approach, in which the quantitative risk assessment (QRA) is carried out. A series of papers has discussed the modification of existing LUP methodologies or development of new methodologies in particular MSs (Hirst 1998;Francis et al 1999;Carter and Hirst 2000;Ale 2002;Salvi and Gaston 2004;Hauptmanns 2005;Cahen 2006;Cozzani et al 2006;Tixier et al 2006;Kontič and Kontič 2009;Sebos et al 2010;Taveau 2010;Lenoble and Durand 2011;Delvosalle et al 2011;Khahzad and Reniers 2015;Delvosalle et al 2016;Török et al 2019). Advantages and limitations of the QRA methods and its future in relation to LUP have been sketched by Pasman and Reniers (2014).…”

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Analysis of spatial planning documents and strategic environmental assessment reports with regard to hazards of major industrial accidents: a case study involving six Polish cities

Markiewicz

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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In the event of an accident in an industrial plant, the damage caused by it can be enormous. There may be environmental contamination in a large area. Injured persons may be both employees of the plant staying on its premises and local residents. The control of major accidents is realised by implementing the procedures regarding: safety analysis, emergency and operational planning, effective land-use planning (LUP), strategic environmental assessment (SEA), environmental impact assessment (EIA) and public consultation. The paper presents findings of a case study aiming to analyse selected spatial planning documents prepared at the municipality and SEA reports accompanying them, with regard to hazards of major industrial accidents in six Polish cities. In addition, changes of relevant Polish legislation taking place from 1995 till now are explained referring to European Union (EU) law. This article is the very first to present the situation concerning LUP around hazardous plants in Poland based on such extensive data. The assessment shows that the way of recording the major accident hazards is varied, but legal norms, binding at the time when the documents were drawn up, were met in each of the analysed documents. Changes of relevant Poland legislation were not the only reason for differences in the ways of recording the hazards of major industrial accidents in these documents. The case study has revealed that relevant Polish regulations can be still improved. The results of the study have useful implications for the control of major accidents, spatial policy-making and environmental management.

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Analysis of spatial planning documents and strategic environmental assessment reports with regard to hazards of major industrial accidents: a case study involving six Polish cities

Markiewicz

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…Currently the consequence-based approach has been adopted in Finland, Luxembourg, Spain and Austria [2,3,37,38] and proposed in Greece [38]. As far as the generic-distances approach, this has been established in Germany and Sweden [2,3,37,38], while the risk-based approach has been adopted in the UK [2,3,[37][38][39][40][41][42] and the Netherlands [2,3,37,38,43] and proposed in Belgium [44][45][46]. In France [47][48][49] and Italy [50], after the accident in Toulouse [51], the consequence-approach has been replaced by hybrid approaches combining the advantages of the risk and consequence-based approaches.…”

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A Researcher’s View on the Proposal of Legal Regulations Regarding Major Accident Hazard Assessment in the Land Use Planning Process in Poland

Markiewicz

2020

GaEE

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This paper aims at reviewing the core Polish regulations on land‑use planning (LUP) around hazardous plants and presenting a researcher’s view on the proposal of a ministerial ordinance on safety distance determination from the plants creating a major accident hazard (Seveso establishments). Currently there are no legal regulations concerning the method of safety distance determination from Seveso establishments in Poland. The method of generic‑distances recommended in the Polish guidelines from 2007 is not mandatory. The author stands by her opinion expressed for the first time in 2015 that Polish legal regulations on safety distance determination from Seveso establishments formulated as a ministerial ordinance are indisputably needed. If the ordinance is issued, it will contribute to a more complete implementation of the Directive 2012/18/EU and will allow nationwide unification of the method of safety distance determination. The consequence‑based approach seems a reasonable option in Polish conditions. This researcher suggests an extension of the draft of the ordinance by introducing a reference tool for the mathematical modelling of accident consequences. It is also worth considering the introduction of legal norms for the description of areas designed in the spatial planning documents for the location of Seveso establishments.

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“…Previously, in 2017, Thacker et al [42] proposed a metric of infrastructure criticality in terms of the number of users who may be directly or indirectly disrupted by the failure of physically interdependent infrastructures. This problem was also analyzed by Bloomfield et al [43] and by Delvosalle et al [44]. Lam et al [45] developed a scientific methodology of cyclone risk mapping for critical coastal infrastructures.…”

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Critical Infrastructures Overview: Past, Present and Future

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Industrialized societies depend on the proper functioning of a whole range of technological infrastructures, such as electricity, road and railway networks and telecommunications which, due to their importance, are generically referred to as critical infrastructures (CIs). Technical failures, natural disasters and malicious events, if not terrorist, could have devastating effects on these infrastructures. The events of the last few years have accelerated efforts to identify and designate CIs at national and European levels and have reinforced concerns about increasing their protection in sensitive sectors for the safety of the individual and the community. The aim of this research is to provide the basic elements to understand the issue along with the reasons for its importance both at national, European and international level. In particular, after analyzing the origin of the problem, a systematic literature review is carried out to study the current research around future perspectives relating to the management of Cis, with particular focus on three research questions: RQ1 “What types of risk assessment methods are used to manage CIs?”, RQ2 “What are the environmental risk mitigation strategies for CIs?” and RQ3 “What is the role of the human factor in the prevention of risks for CIs?”. The results aim to be guidelines for decision makers and researchers interested in this topic.

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Considering critical infrastructures in the land use planning policy around Seveso plants

Cited by 8 publications

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Analysis of spatial planning documents and strategic environmental assessment reports with regard to hazards of major industrial accidents: a case study involving six Polish cities

Analysis of spatial planning documents and strategic environmental assessment reports with regard to hazards of major industrial accidents: a case study involving six Polish cities

A Researcher’s View on the Proposal of Legal Regulations Regarding Major Accident Hazard Assessment in the Land Use Planning Process in Poland

Critical Infrastructures Overview: Past, Present and Future

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