Law, Science and Community in the bradyseismic crisis: integrated intervention strategies for the safety of the population and the stability of infrastructures

The catastrophic events linked to natural phenomena that periodically affect Italy have generated the image in the world of a virtuous Country in terms of post-disaster solidarity, but negligent in prevention policies.

On the intense bradyseismic activity currently taking place in the Campi Flegrei’s Area, the monitoring of the phenomena is constant for the continuous commitment in the field of geologists, volcanologists, seismologists and other technical subjects. However, the problem concerns the administrative legal aspect because the local administrations are unable to implement the technology that exists today within a reasonable time and make it available to technicians, thus not taking advantage of the wide possibilities for risk prevention that science offers. Advanced digital tools, in fact, are useful not only for monitoring the evolution of bradyseismic activity, but also for capturing the minimal reactions, apparently imperceptible but substantially relevant, on the static nature of buildings, keeping them safe and prolonging their "useful life".

Another problem is the lack of knowledge among citizens of best practices of Civil Protection that tell what to do in event of calamity. The active involvement of the population with exercises, simulations and information activities would be fundamental not only for the good performance but also for the result of the administrative prevention action. Citizens must be considered as stable and valuable partners of the public administration and of the technical subjects. In fact, their connection whit the territory can make the organization more efficient and the action more effective in ordinary times, often also ensuring a saving of public resources.

Today is necessary a continuous dialogue between "law" and "science" in which the community must be involved: three interlocutory subjects whose action must be aimed to build a structured reaction not in the emergency phase but in an ordinary context, for to make an effective process of resilience of people, territories and public and private building heritage.