Instruments of Mineral Deposit Safeguarding in Poland, Slovakia and Czechia—Comparative Analysis

Slávka Gałaś, Alicja Kot-Niewiadomska, Andrzej Gałaś, Julián Kondela and Blažena Wertichová
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Slávka Gałaś: Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
Alicja Kot-Niewiadomska: Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Provision of Mineral Policy, Wybickiego 7A, 31-261 Krakow, Poland
Andrzej Gałaś: Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Provision of Mineral Policy, Wybickiego 7A, 31-261 Krakow, Poland
Julián Kondela: Institute of Geosciences, Technical University of Košice, Letná 9, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia
Blažena Wertichová: Faculty of Mining and Geology, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, 70800 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

Resources, 2021, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-38

Abstract: Mineral deposits are essential for the economic, technological and social development. However, to enable them to play an appropriate role in the process of sustainable development, they need to be safeguarded in a comprehensive and systemic manner in the same measure as other elements of the environment. The practice of securing access to areas where the mineral deposits can be found is based on the statement that they can be extracted only in places where they occur. This fact defines the type and scope of instruments for safeguarding prospective deposit areas of minerals and their documented deposits. These issues gained in significance in the EU level in recent years however views on this subject across the Member States still vary. The paper subjects instruments of mineral deposit safeguarding used in Poland, Slovakia and Czechia to the analysis and multi-criteria comparative assessment. It recommends their division into the conceptual, legal, spatial planning and economic ones. As a result of studies, similarities and differences in the approach to mineral deposit safeguarding in individual countries are shown, indicating good practices and suggesting possible changes. The analysis revealed many analogies in actions aimed at mineral deposit safeguarding in individual countries, however the assessment of their effectiveness and implementation points at the necessity of taking further steps to increase deposit safeguarding.

Keywords: instruments of mineral deposit safeguarding; comparative analysis; mineral deposits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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