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Flood risk management in Italy: challenges and opportunities for the implementation of the EU Floods Directive (2007/60/EC) |
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J. Mysiak, F. Testella, M. Bonaiuto, G. Carrus, S. Dominicis, U. Ganucci Cancellieri, K. Firus, P. Grifoni |
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Englisch
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| ISSN |
1561-8633
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In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ; 13, no. 11 ; Nr. 13, no. 11 (2013-11-19), S.2883-2890 |
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250085557
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-13-2883-2013.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Italy's recent history is punctuated with devastating flood disasters
claiming high death toll and causing vast but underestimated economic, social
and environmental damage. The responses to major flood and landslide
disasters such as the Polesine (1951), Vajont (1963), Firenze (1966),
Valtelina (1987), Piedmont (1994), Crotone (1996), Sarno (1998), Soverato
(2000), and Piedmont (2000) events have contributed to shaping the country's
flood risk governance. Insufficient resources and capacity, slow
implementation of the (at that time) novel risk prevention and protection
framework, embodied in the law 183/89 of 18 May 1989, increased the reliance
on the response and recovery operations of the civil protection. As a result,
the importance of the Civil Protection Mechanism and the relative body of
norms and regulation developed rapidly in the 1990s. In the aftermath of the
Sarno (1998) and Soverato (2000) disasters, the Department for Civil
Protection (DCP) installed a network of advanced early warning and alerting
centres, the cornerstones of Italy's preparedness for natural hazards and a
best practice worth following. However, deep convective clouds, not uncommon
in Italy, producing intense rainfall and rapidly developing localised floods
still lead to considerable damage and loss of life that can only be reduced
by stepping up the risk prevention efforts. The implementation of the EU
Floods Directive (2007/60/EC) provides an opportunity to revise the model of
flood risk governance and confront the shortcomings encountered during more
than 20 yr of organised flood risk management. This brief communication
offers joint recommendations towards this end from three projects funded by
the 2nd CRUE ERA-NET (http://www.crue-eranet.net/) Funding Initiative:
FREEMAN, IMRA and URFlood. |
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