Natural and Technological Hazards in Urban Areas: Assessment, Planning and Solutions

Skilodimou, Hariklia D.; Bathrellos, George D.

doi:10.3390/su13158301

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“…Beyond the economic instruments available for addressing seismic vulnerability at the building scale, it is largely acknowledged that urban planning policies and regulations are important tools for reducing the vulnerability of the built environment as whole, increasing the resilience and safety of cities [3,59,60]. Indeed, urban planning has the power to orient other types of incentives, such as additional volumetric rights, that can boost building retrofitting.…”

Section: The Italian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Planning for More Resilient and Safer Cities: A New Methodology for Seismic Risk Assessment at the Urban Scale, Applied to a Case Study in Italy

Baldassarre,

Conticelli,

Santangelo

2024

Sustainability

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Recent seismic events and the damages related to them have highlighted the crucial role of urban planning in coping with the fragility and intrinsic vulnerability of cities. The paper presents a methodology for assessing seismic risk at an urban scale, expanding from a single-building investigation to an urban-scale analysis by adopting an empirical method for assessing the vulnerability of the urban fabric. Data collection and analysis have been conducted through the Geographic Information System (GIS). The methodology has been applied to the Italian city of Castelfranco Emilia, in the Emilia-Romagna region, where the current regional urban planning law is guiding municipalities towards the development of strategies mostly oriented toward the retrofit of the existing building stock and the overall regeneration of the urbanized territory, in accordance with the target of no net land take by 2050. The novelty of the method stands in the transposition of approaches born in the civil engineering and protection domains to the urban planning sphere, stressing the importance of developing urban planning instruments which are well-integrated with vulnerability assessments and, therefore, able to successfully incorporate risk considerations in the decision making.

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Section: The Italian Contextmentioning

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“…Earthquakes, as other natural hazards, are natural phenomena occurring worldwide, whose associated consequences pose serious threats to natural and man-made environments [1][2][3]. The disruptive energy of an earthquake can harm people, cause severe property damages, damage infrastructures and facilities, and cause monetary losses.…”

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Planning for More Resilient and Safer Cities: A New Methodology for Seismic Risk Assessment at the Urban Scale, Applied to a Case Study in Italy

Baldassarre,

Conticelli,

Santangelo

2024

Sustainability

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“…However, before, during, and after the occurrence of a natural disaster, diverse and complicated information always comes up with the influence of bounded rationality. Thus, it is very hard for stakeholders to predict what exactly will happen around a specific natural disaster (Skilodimou and Bathrellos 2021).…”

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Natural disaster management in Korea: Is it the “best”, or is it just “satisfactory”?

2022

Int Social Sci J

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This research has examined the reality of Korean natural disaster management by considering four analytical factors, namely, the characteristics of natural disasters, government policy, business strategy, and volunteer activity, towards drawing lessons for the international community. Qualitative content analysis has been used to test the following hypothesis: “If Korean natural disaster management is not the best but only satisfactory, then there will be implications for the international community.” The success and failure of Korean natural disaster management has been compared from the international perspective. By accepting the hypothesis, this research maintains that the Korean field of natural disaster management has always been surrounded by certain barriers, according to the bounded rationality of human beings.

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“…Their active involvement is the starting point for identifying and construction actions for adaptation. The Joint Research Centre guidelines [31] offer signatories a set of methodological and practical principles to develop a correct and fruitful participatory process for constructing adaptation scenarios and measures in response to climate hazards [32].…”

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“…Different climate hazards may have aspects in common, for example, they can occur in conjunction with the same climate event or intervene on specific vulnerabilities in a given territory. In particular, some territorial or urban vulnerabilities can contribute to the emergence of substantial climatic risks, or they can be boosted with the combination of several occurring hazards such as heavy precipitation, flooding, and droughts [32,42].…”

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The INTERREG Italy-Croatia Joint_SECAP Project: A Collaborative Approach for Adaptation Planning

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With regard to the scientific debate which highlights the potential of joint climate planning, there are few concrete experiences in Europe where this approach has been applied. This contribution focuses on critical methodological and application aspects of the processes underlying the development of Joint Plans for Sustainable Energy and Climate in the supra-municipal area as emerged from the direct participation of the authors in the Joint_SECAP project funded by the Interreg Italia-Croatia programme. This paper presents a comparative analysis of nine case studies in Italy and Croatia with a focus on fundamental aspects of the planning process: the governance model, shared knowledge framework, risk and vulnerability assessment, and participatory process. The analysis and comparison of the Joint_SECAP experiences confirm that joint climate planning, developed in the framework of the European Covenant of Mayors (CoM) initiative, is effective for creating synergy between local authorities and for defining and implementing strategies and actions for adaptation to the territorial scale. Finally, the research indicates some recommendations to overcome the barriers that impede the spread and effectiveness of this approach to climate planning. In particular, it highlights the need to enhance collaboration between local authorities, regions, and CoM coordinators.

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Natural and Technological Hazards in Urban Areas: Assessment, Planning and Solutions

Abstract: Natural hazards are extreme natural phenomena whose associated consequences can lead to damage of both the natural and man-made environment [...]

Cited by 41 publications

References 42 publications

Planning for More Resilient and Safer Cities: A New Methodology for Seismic Risk Assessment at the Urban Scale, Applied to a Case Study in Italy

Planning for More Resilient and Safer Cities: A New Methodology for Seismic Risk Assessment at the Urban Scale, Applied to a Case Study in Italy

Natural disaster management in Korea: Is it the “best”, or is it just “satisfactory”?

The INTERREG Italy-Croatia Joint_SECAP Project: A Collaborative Approach for Adaptation Planning

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