A comprehensive framework tool for performance assessment of NBS for hydro-meteorological risk management

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A new pattern of risk management: The Hyogo Framework for Action and Italian Practise

On January 2005, the World Conference on Disaster Reduction adopted the ‘‘Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2025: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters’’ [UN-ISDR (United Nations, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction), Disaster Risk and Sustainable Development: understanding the links between development, environment and natural hazards leading to disasters, World Summit on Sustainable Development, August–September 2002, Johannesburg, 2002]. This ‘‘white paper’’ seeks to promote ‘‘an effective integration of disaster risk considerations into sustainable development policies, planning and programming at all levels’’ outlining a strategic and systematic approach to reduce vulnerabilities and risks to hazards. The current paper discusses each aspect of the Hyogo approach in relation to the Italian experience. Italy represents an interesting case because of its multiple hazard environment, and the fact that it has developed an integrated approach to risk reduction planning. Strengths and weaknesses of the ‘‘Italian way’’ of dealing with risk are identified, and compared with the theoretical processes suggested by the framework. Implementation of selected key actions in Italy has helped identify a series of obstacles to progress, further defining the gap that still exists between theoretical framework and actual practise. The various activities constituting ‘‘risk management’’ (viz., assessment, prevention, mitigation, monitoring, early warning, preparedness) are here considered in a comprehensive framework wherein each phase is connected to the others.The paper focuses on natural hazards, which are more frequent in Italy (landslides, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, natural soil erosion). The main results include: - A new process for dealing with risk, using the framework for guidance, is identified. We track the reasons for Italy gradually adopting this process in dealing with her vulnerabilities to natural hazards. - Those factors that appear to interfere with an integrated approach to risk management are identified as a function of selected experiences. - Guidelines for analysing vulnerabilities to disaster in a multi-hazard, integrated context are proposed

Landscape at Risk

The European Landscape Convention (ELC) allowed achieving important results through the promotion of approaches oriented to landscapes safeguard and valorization. Nevertheless, in the present context, risks and hazards able to threaten landscapes resources have been increasingly growing: environmental risks intensified by a wild urban development, climate change, excessive landscape exploitation or, on the other hand, landscape abandonment and depopulation. Twenty years on from ELC enactment, this special issue wants to take a stock of how much is still required to cope with all the different form of risk threatening “the significant or characteristic features of a landscape, justified by its heritage value derived from its natural configuration and/or from human activity” (ELC, 2000). The special issue aims is to deal with all the different reasons that could produce alteration, decay, depletion or loss of material and immaterial assets that mark out landscapes. Therefore, risk is also understood as risk of alteration or interruption of the relationship between community and places, which lead to landscape’s features creation according to ELC. Therefore, the issue “Landscapes at risk” will be addressed considering its multiple meanings, starting from landscapes affected by natural risks, moving to the ones suffering shrinking or gentrification risk or even overexploitation and/or congestion, up to landscape in transition

La città di Eduardo

Il saggio è incentrato sull'idea di città, di spazio urbano e di napoletanità espressa da Eduardo nelle sue opere. La città di Napoli è co-protagonista di quasi tutte le opere di Eduardo, attraverso la sua lingua, le sue pratiche sociali e spaziali, i suoi valori e i suoi spazi. Con grande sensibilità egli mette in scena il profondo legame che esiste tra ogni contesto sociale e il proprio spazio di vita

Morfologie dello spazio neo-metropolitano

L'analisi degli spostamenti sistematici che avvengono su un territorio evidenziano diversi pattern di mobilità cui corrispondono specifiche tipologie di organizzazione dell'urbanizzato. Il paper individua sette configurazioni di base che descrivono le principali modalità di interazione tra sistemi insediativi