National policies, plans and risk and governance profile(s)

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The purpose of the paper is to investigate the attitude to risk related to low-probability, high-impact events.
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This paper identifies flood-prone areas with GeoFlood and assesses lessons learned from the Tiber River case study.
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The present work focuses on the use of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), commonly known as drones, for the inspection and assessment of bridge infrastructures.
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The study presented in this paper examines how professionalization manifests itself in the functioning of the organized community groups involved in flood risk management in Italy, Germany, England, and the Netherlands.
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In this article, the researchers explore how emergency management institutions understand the effects of false information and what approaches are used to manage false information during actual crises.
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This G20 Climate Risk Atlas factsheets sheds light on the risks faced by Italy. The G20 Climate Risk Atlas is the contribution of the CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change to ensure attentive and well-informed climate action
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This solutions paper answers the question: what should the G7 do to better avert and respond to crises in order to reduce both human suffering and the overall cost of crisis response? The paper identifies three solutions that the G7 should initiate.
New datasets have been extracted from Regional Climate Models to estimate the frequency of extreme temperatures and precipitation events until 2100.

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