## 4 Thematic Analysis of the Conducted Review
The decision-based modelling approaches were related to issues such as safety measure system development in underground coal mines [45], information uncertainty [46], or the evaluation of safety of coal mining above a confined aquifer [47]. Decision-making problems were also analyzed in works [48; 49]. The authors in [48] introduced a method using a multi-goal fuzzy cognitive map (FCM) and multi-criteria decision making based on sensitivity analysis to assess the risks associated with working accidents in underground collieries. The second work [49] was focused on the characteristics of concepts and methods for evaluating sequential information gathering schemes in spatial decision situations. Moreover, in the analyzed thematic group, the problem of geological uncertainty was identified. In work [50], the authors proposed a new systematic framework to quantify the risk of kriging-based mining projects due to the geological uncertainties. The second interesting view of this problem was given in [51], where the authors provided guidelines for designing and organizing a geotechnical risk assessment process to satisfy the underground mining needs. The second analyzed group is focused on the environmental issues and is the most represented. The relationships between the environment and the mines are bilateral. On the one hand, the mine, while carrying out its mining activities, directly influences the environment and generates certain negative effects on the environment in the form of, e.g., pollution of the air, water, and soil, health problems, and mining damages. The identified papers in this area were focused on two main issues: building damages and ecological problems, and were assigned to the group _impact of mines on environment_. On the other hand, however, the environment may also have a negative impact on the activities of the mine through natural processes that interfere with its proper operational performance, such as earthquakes or flooding with groundwater. The articles related to the risk assessment for this area were classified in the second group--_environmental impact on mines_. Building damages were under the investigation of the authors of work [52]. They presented an approach to building damage risk assessment in mining induced areas, which is based on a comparison between buildings strength and terrain deformation. In another work [53], the authors proposed an integrated system comprising deep mining, coal-gangue dressing, and underground backfill mining. They also developed many numerical models for buildings aimed at studying the surface subsidence and deformation. The second area mostly regarded public health issues (see works [27; 54; 55; 56; 57; 58; 59; 60; 61; 62; 63; 64; 65; 66; 67; 68; 69; 70; 71; 72]) and the impact of heavy metals on the environment in the area where the mine operates (see works [62; 64; 68; 73; 74; 75; 76; 77; 78; 79; 80; 81; 82; 83; 84; 85; 86; 87; 88; 89; 90] for soil contamination investigation and works [54; 64; 91; 92; 93; 94; 95; 96; 97] for water contamination problems). In this group, there is also identified the general sub-group, where issues such as, among others, sustainability [98], environmental resource management [99; 100], mining dilution [101], acid rock drainage [102; 103], landscape scale risk assessment [104], or ecological risk assessment [105; 106; 107; 108] were analyzed. In the environmental thematic group can be defined the second approach, where the environmental impact on mining operation performance was investigated. In this area, research works were focused on seismic risk assessment (e.g., [109; 110]) and water risk assessment (water inrush problems [111; 112; 113], water resources in mining [114], and surface water contamination [115]). Another thematic group regards human factor issues. In this group, two main research areas were identified, namely social risk and health and safety. In work [2], the problem of environmental and social risk management during the process of colliery liquidation was considered.