An Integrated Approach to Risk and Impacts of Geo-Resources Exploration and Exploitation

Geo-resources are widely exploited in our society, with huge benefits for both economy and communities. Nevertheless, come risks impacts. Understanding how such impacts intrinsically borne a given project is of critical importance industry society. In particular, it crucial to distinguish between the specific related exploiting energy resource those shared exploitation other resources. A variety different approaches can be used identify assess Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) risk assessments (RAs) most commonly adopted. Although support decision making environmental management, they rarely combination perhaps because have been developed by largely groups specialists. By analyzing structure ratio two tools, we an approach combining harmonizing LCA MRA; resulting protocol envisages building MRA upon qualitatively quantitatively. We demonstrate case study using virtual site (based on real one) geothermal production.