Corrado Tumaini

Environmental problems have a common element: it is the critical and alarming Feature › (true or supposed, sustainable or full-blown) that the single case automatically covers from the very same instant you approach it.

Whatever the level of Danger › laying around the environmental emergency case, it ends up concentrating in tension (meant as excitement, anxiety, effort) which is a condition for the development of the operations since the beginning.

In this situation, you guard, you investigate and you project.

Corrado Tumaini, Senior geologist › and environmental consultant ›, free-lancer , will intervene to:

• promote his Customers’ instances
• ease development of the procedure
• remove the problem

by a sequential process of analysis\/synthesis › based on four leading elements:

1. situational assessment,
2. choice of the management Strategy ›,
3. control of the tension around the case,
4. risk communication.

Enquiries for intervention come from private and public subjects, who need to confront with environmental management problematics.  Noxious production- Factories ›, Vacant sites ›, landfills, but also Farms › “at risk”, quarries and mines, impacting infrastructures which cross prestigious areas, structural interventions and industrial development plans all represent the most common cases.

Causes and responsibilities are often linked to previous management, run in moments featured by a lack of norms and, in general, by a lack of sensibility towards the Environment ›. Historical memory of the site is missing and tension grows, contradictions rise and weaknesses derived from superficial evaluations which can be transformed into “traps” are stressed: these all make the search of consensus more complicated and favour the conflicts among the interested subjects.

It is necessary to link legal aspects to technical ones, the main principles to the planning intentions, which are divisions with different aims and ways to proceed.

Norms can be differently interpreted, following the approach, preferring public health objectives (reflected on the health field) or environmental preservation (management of resources).

The individuation of a correct balance, to allow the adoption of proportioned operations, which are not to be discriminatory but transparent and consistent, requires a structured procedure to make decisions on the basis of particularised and objective informations. On the contrary, if it is true that a certain number of recent facts has demonstrated that public opinion perceives the risks that populations or Environment › are potentially subjected to more intensively than in the past, it is also incontestable that, at the same time, the extraordinary development of media favours this new capacity, to understand the coming of new risks before scientific research has completely clarified over them.
Repercussions on the spread of news through media are causes of an increase in tension around the case, with lapses which are not difficult to imagine.

It is necessary to operate with common sense and trust › in others’ use, exercising listening capacities and favouring active silence, seizing opportunities which hide coincidences, working with optimistic approach, with courage › and active prudence.

intuition ›, patience, coordination, synthesis, fantasy in scenario management, trust › in choices, a certain rigour in prescriptions, encourage, help others to intelligently recognize their own interests, dealing with difficult topics with disenchantment and ease: these are all  abilities that Tumaini pours out in his profession to solve the problems.