Italy

This article documents positive and negative experiences related to the deadly landslide disaster on 5 May 1998 in Italy, finding a possible link between prevention measures and mortality reduction.

This article examines the policies and institutional arrangements for integrating informal volunteers, the methods and tools for their engagement, and the reported benefits and challenges of involving volunteers in disaster management.

This paper reconstructs and analyses the Central Italy temporary housing supply and delivery process. It combines a meta-analysis of published documents and business process modelling to uncover links between policy, society, and space.

This research advances the understanding of the slope hydrological response in triggering shallow landslides, based on the comparison of results achieved for silty–clayey soils and ash-fall pyroclastic soils mantling slopes in northern and southern Italy.

This report analyses experiences of five EU countries - Croatia, Finland, Germany, Italy and Spain, from the beginning of the pandemic up until COVID-19 vaccines became available at the end of 2020.

The purpose of this preliminary study is to demonstrate that machine learning techniques can be used to analyze monitoring data in order to select the most relevant variables for the triggering of shallow rainfall-induced landslides at regional scale.

This paper presents an innovative method of estimating the relative risk of buildings exposed to seismic and tsunami hazards in volcanic islands is applied to Stromboli (Italy).

This contributing paper aims to examine the need to effectively implement implement the interplay between technical decision-makers and the scientific community to achieve effective disaster risk reduction (DRR).