61 research outputs found
Methodological framework for an integrated multi-scale vulnerability and resilience assessment
The deliverable illustrates the methodological framework to assess vulnerability and resilience across different temporal and spatial scales, acknowledging the different domains where the latter may manifest, and in particular in the natural and the built environment, allocating a large importance to the so called “critical infrastructures”, in social and economic systems. A set of four matrices has been developed to identify what aspects should be looked at before the impact, that is to say what shows the potential ability or inability to cope with an extreme; at the impact, addressing in particular the capacity (or incapacity) to sustain various types of stresses (in the form of acceleration, pressure, heat…); in the time immediately after the impact, as the ability (or inability) to suffer losses and still continue functioning; and in the longer term of recovery, as the capacity to find a new state of equilibrium in which the fragilities manifested during and after the impact are addressed.
Developing the framework, a particular attention has been paid to the relationships among systems within the same matrix and among matrices, across spatial and temporal scales. A set of matrices has been developed for different natural hazards, including in particular landslides and floods, trying to include as much as possible what past cases, the international literature and prior experience of involved partners have indicated as relevant parameters and factors to look at. In this regard, the project builds on the state of the art, embedding what has been learned until now in terms of response capacity to a variety of stresses and in the meantime identifying gaps to be addressed by future research
Early stage sinkhole formation in the acque albule basin of central Italy from geophysical and geochemical observations
Sinkhole occurrence along the Tyrrhenian margin of the Central Apennines is of great importance
for applied research, land management and civil protection. This study reports on GPS-altimetry
magnetic, gravity, geoelectric, seismic, and soil gas measurements of a rapidly developing sinkhole
near the Guidonia military airport. The measurements revealed an elliptical 2-m depression
elongated 220 m in the NNE-SSW direction with the minor axis of 110 m. In spring of 2013, two
vertical cavities formed in the eastern and northeastern flanks of the depression whose depths and
shapes are rapidly evolving with the formation of widespread fracturing along the same side. The
geophysical observations image the developing sinkhole to a depth of some 50 m, the presence of
the Travertino lithotype around the depression (down to at least 40 m), and the lack of this lithotype
below the lowered area. The sinkhole's evolution appears to be structurally controlled by local and
regional faulting. These results are useful for designing further geophysical, geotechnical and
geochemical studies to monitor the sinkhole's evolution and to assess the hazard it presents in
densely urbanized area.Published36-477A. Geofisica di esplorazioneJCR Journalreserve
The environmental effects of the 1743 Salento earthquake (Apulia, southern Italy): a contribution to seismic hazard assessment of the Salento Peninsula
Corso di perfezionamento a distanza in valutazione degli apprendimenti e autovalutazione d'istituto nella scuola dell'autonomia. Flussi informativi e processi decisionali
Prometeo 2000. Corsi di formazione per il conferimento della qualifica dirigenziale ai capi di istituto delle istituzioni scolastiche. Flussi informativi e processi decisionali
La geologia dei Monti Cornicolani
Viene descritta la geologia dell'area dei Monti Cornicolani
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