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Sustainability and Heritage in Natural Stone industry

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Natural stones have been extensively used in the past till nowadays for infrastructures and buildings. Their physical-technical properties and petrographic characteristics should be considered in modern architecture from a sustainability perspective, together with their extraction areas and techniques. Quarries and stone-processing plants are often in the same areas, representing important items for local social and economic development. In this sense stones should be considered as elements of geodiversity that connect the natural environment to the city, which often represents a continuum with the surrounding geology and landscape. For this reason, natural stone's properties should be studied in conjunction with the environmental impact of stone quarrying and its mitigation, the conservation and decay monitoring of stone in historical buildings, and the sustainable use of stone in modern architecture.

Moreover, some of the scientific papers, that will be published in this collection, will be a contribution to the research project HerSTONES IGCP 637 UNESCO funded – “Heritage Stones: a step towards to widen up the recognition of stones used in the building of heritage in emerging countries” going ahead on the protection and recognition of Heritage Stones and building capacities for the sustainable use of earth resources.

The collection on “Sustainability and Heritage in Natural Stone industry” aims to provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art of Heritage Stone related research. The collection will publish high quality, peer-reviewed scientific papers whilst improving communications amongst the different actors. It will also provide extensive information on any latest development of broader interest.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- natural stone use in architectural and or historical heritage

- contemporary uses of natural stones

- heritage stone characterization

- natural stone preventive and protective measures

- monitoring the state of natural stone decay

- natural stone, territory and land

- stone quarries and tourism

- natural stone sustainability

Keywords: Natural stone; Heritage Stone; Sustainability

Editors

  • Nicola Careddu Nicola Careddu , 

    Nicola Careddu

    Ph.D., mining engineer, is Associate Professor of Excavation Engineering at the University of Cagliari, Italy. His main area of expertise is focused on Dimension Stone topics. His research work includes Sustainable Mining, Circular Economy, Geo-heritage and Geoethics. He is a member of both the organizing and scientific committees of the international congress “Global Stone Congress” as well as coordinating international conferences and workshops. Prof. Careddu has been the chief of the project “Reduction of marble waste landfills through the enhancement of CaCO3”, which is fully funded by Sardinian Regional Government.

  • Rossana Bellopede Rossana Bellopede  &

    Rossana Bellopede

    Rossana Bellopede is enrolled at the Politecnico di Torino as Associate Professor in the scientific sector ING/IND 29 (Raw Material Engineering). Author of more than 90 papers published in international journals, conference proceedings and as book chapters, her research activity has been developed on recovery and treatment of solid waste focusing also to the safety issues, durability of natural stone, bowing of natural stone slabs, testing to asbestos content measure. She is expert of Technical Committee of CEN 246 “Natural Stone” inside WG2 “Test Method”.

  • Nuria Fernández Castro Nuria Fernández Castro

    Nuria Fernández Castro

    Nuria F. Castro is a senior Technologist at the Centre for Mineral Technology of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (CETEM/MCTI), currently working in the heritage conservation field, and doctoral student in Geology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Mining Engineer (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) with two specialization courses, a Master's degree in Geology, and over twenty years of experience in Natural Stone research: production, testing, sustainable development and scientific dissemination.

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