The CER directive of the European Union on the Critical Entities Resilience (CER) seems to offer some useful indications on the subject of the administrative management of the risk, with a view to overcoming the emergency paradigm. This is a directive whose objective is to respond to the need, also prioritised in the European Union's agenda, to ensure the security of infrastructures in order to improve their ability to prevent, withstand and recover from significant disruptions. A directive that radically changes the approach adopted with regard to infrastructures, shifting the focus from the structure to the entity that manages it, so as to implement the capacity of operators to strengthen their ability to prevent, protect, respond, mitigate, absorb adapt and restore their operational capabilities following incidents that may disrupt the provision of essential services, in order to define a general regulatory framework to address the resilience of critical actors to all risks, natural and man-made, accidental and intentional, overcoming the peculiarities and gaps of specific sectoral disciplines. Starting from this assumption, we must rethink the paradigm of the approach starting from an inversion that requires us to reflect on the objective fact of the risk and not on who is in charge of managing it, with all the implications that this entails.
How to cite: Giani, L. N. E.: Risk and infrastructure. Critical actors' perspective, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-4373, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-4373, 2025.
The necessity of addressing the effects of climate change, the awareness of the natural risks to which certain territories are constantly exposed, as well as the complex systemic consequences arising from the increasing availability of knowledge and information by public decision-makers regarding the state and evolution of these territories, make the administrative law of risk a particularly interesting and dynamic field of research. Within this field, indeed, it is possible to observe, in the management of specific issues, the evolution of the general categories of the legal system.
An example of this dynamic can be clearly seen in the influence that new technologies exert on classical models of public management of natural risks. These models increasingly rely on the large volume of environmental and territorial information that can be acquired through various available environmental monitoring methods, the forecasting models based on this information, and, finally, the communication tools (including automated ones) used to convey risks to the public.
This research specifically focuses on the latter aspect, delving into the sensitive issue of institutional communication of natural risks: the tools dedicated to this purpose, the organizational models that can be employed, and the conditions for their effectiveness.
In particular, based on the “operational guidelines for the issuance of public warning messages for volcanic events and related tsunamis” (adopted by the Department of Civil Protection pursuant to Article 5 of the Directive of the President of the Council of Ministers of October 23, 2020, as amended
and supplemented by the Directive of the Minister of Civil Protection and Maritime Policies of February 7, 2023), some legal considerations will be made regarding early warning systems (including with specific reference to the recently introduced IT-Alert system), framing them within the classical principles of risk law, with particular attention to the relationship with the precautionary principle.
Having defined the scope of the discussion, and based on the analysis of the precautionary model, the potential administrative legality consequences of institutional communication of natural risks will be analyzed, with particular emphasis – following the doctrine that has dealt with the topic – on the role that public involvement and participation play in making communication measures effective, ensuring that these measures are actually integrated into a “social process” of continuous risk management, rather than being, ultimately, another fragmented emergency response.
How to cite: vipiana, P., botto, G., timo, M., paire, A., and scazzola, S.: Institutional communication of natural hazards: gli early warning systems, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-12884, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-12884, 2025.
Involving private entities for rational volcanic risk management is a need that can no longer be postponed and that must be pursued through the awarding of contracts for monitoring and direct control by the commissioning entity. This could be a renewed declination of the public-private relationship, but from a risk perspective, i.e. starting from a critical situation, which must be addressed through the precautionary paradigm. This way, the risk of power capture by private actors is avoided, because fruitful dialogues are established starting from the criticality itself. It is a knowledge and integration process that, through public commissioning, enables a fruitful exchange between subjects, skills and knowledge. It makes use of transversal partnerships, programme agreements and all the instruments that allow and legitimise a fruitful integration of knowledge and resources, but starting from a precise choice of the public entity that remains in control of the entire chain of choice. Public planning also isolates the components in order to avoid the recent diversion to the insurance sector, which turns into a risk game far from an appropriate response to the unexpected event.
How to cite: Police, A.: Private involvement to enhance governance in volcanic risk reduction, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-12974, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-12974, 2025.
Planning tools represent the right ‘place’ where to lay the pillars to identify and deepen the most suitable prevention actions to be put into a system because they allow a detailed and integrated knowledge of all the territorial and landscape components. With this in mind, the planning tools of must be interpreted as tools from which to define strategic protection and prevention actions, and not only dialogue but also the necessary contamination (even with emergency planning) is necessary. This makes it possible to assess the characteristics, constraints and values of the territory in order to decide how and where to intervene with long-term prevention actions and a precautionary approach. To delineate the content of actions, however, it is necessary to understand how the principles of prevention and precaution ‘behave’. On this point, administrative jurisprudence comes to the rescue, according to which the application of the precautionary principle concerns the risk that is in any case identifiable following a preliminary objective scientific assessment, which must be preceded, logically and chronologically, by the identification of the potentially negative effects arising from a phenomenon and comprises, essentially, four components: the identification of the hazard; the characterisation of the hazard; the assessment of exposure; the characterisation of the risk. It is therefore a scientific process that must necessarily be carried out by experts in the field.
Once the risk has been correctly assessed (by recognised experts), it is up to policy and administration to manage it in a balanced manner.
Applying the principles sanctioned by jurisprudence to planning, it can be deduced, therefore, that the prior assessment and characterisation of risk and, therefore, the analysis of vulnerability must be an integral part of territorial planning instruments, since only in this way can they constitute a constraint for the public decision-maker in defining the discipline of the different areas of the territory. From this point of view, the planning system of the so-called Phlegraean Fields Decree, which includes the Extraordinary Plan for the vulnerability analysis of the areas directly affected by the bradyseismic phenomenon, the Plan for communication to the population and the Rapid Emergency Plan, can represent a first idea of a system strategy even if it should be implemented, as mentioned, with the obligation for the public decision-maker to make the vulnerability analysis an integral part of the territorial planning instruments.
How to cite: Iacopino, A.: Precaution and prevention in the jurisprudence of the administrative judge: impact on land planning tools, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-4201, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-4201, 2025.
This paper aims to highlight how the Italian Court of Auditors can help to detect the costs of the recent pandemic emergency.
The Court of Auditors is assigned the scrutiny of the economic-financial balance of the Public administrations in order to protect the economic unity of the Italian Republic. Such prerogatives have a great importance in the framework outlined by art. 2 §1 of the Constitutional Law n.1/2012, which, in line with the European Union legal system, recalls the Public Administrations as a whole to ensure balanced budgets and the sustainability of the public debt.
This means that the surveys of the Court of Auditors in the performance of its functions (judicial, control and advisory) should indirectly also reveal the emergency costs.
The paper will examine some fundamental documents such as the Report on the financial management of the local authorities 2019-2021, the deliberations of the Regional Audit sections of the Court on budgets of the local health authorities, as well as the Reports on the result of the controls on the financial management of the companies subject to the control of the Court of Auditors ex art. 12 of the Law n. 259 of 1958.
The exam will also focus on the controls that the Regional Control Sections of the Court of Auditors carries out on the budgets and final accounts of Local Authorities to verify the compliance with the annual objectives set by the Internal Stability Pact and the compliance with the obligation provided by article 119 § 6 of the Italian Constitution. These controls aim also to verify the debt sustainability and the absence of irregularities that could jeopardize the balance economic-financial aspects of the Local Authorities.
An important perspective to better quantify the costs of the emergency is also identified by article 103 of the Italian Constitution which attributes to the Court of Auditors the jurisdiction on public accounting, civil, military and war pensions, as well as the jurisdiction on the liability of public accountants, public administrators and public officials in judgements concerning the management of the public money. This approach could also lead to reflect on the relationship between public debt and emergency, and on the possibility of judgments raised by a party before the Court of Auditors. Lastly, the examination of the Opinions drawn up by the Court of Auditors in the exercise of its advisory function could be also useful to trace the unclear perimeter of the costs of the emergency. The work consists of two parts: a general part carried out by Professors Giovanna Colombini and Vanessa Manzetti and a part of analysis of case studies carried out by Professors Giovanna Colombini and Vanessa Manzetti, Dr. Francesca Carpita and Dr. Letizia Colangelo.
How to cite: Manzetti, V., Colombini, G., Carpita, F., and Colangelo, L.: The costs of the emergency and the role of the Court of Auditors, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-4122, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-4122, 2025.
The Science of Volcanology traditionally begins with the first text that more or less fully describes a volcanic eruption: the two letters of Pliny the Younger to Tacitus following the explosive eruption of 79 AD that destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae and gave the name of Plinian to this type of eruption. In Italy in the following centuries there have been many eruptions of the many active volcanoes that reside there and many of them have been observed and described, with particular interest in Vesuvius after the Plinian of 1631 entered into semi-continuous activity for more than three centuries, at the gates of Naples, Capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and one of the most culturally lively and attractive cities in Europe, at least in that period that ends with the Unification of Italy. The attention to volcanoes that have derived from these peculiarities has made Italy the cradle of Volcanology both in the past and in times closer to us and has posed the problem of how to use the enormous paper and iconographic heritage that today we possess together with a few other countries in the world such as Japan, Indonesia, and Iceland. Over time the approach to this problem has gone from an uncritical reading, to disinterest, to pure conservation, to the partial rediscovery of one or a few chronicles and their improper use, to a more correct use of these sources, also including the historical context, to a more modern multidisciplinary approach, up to considering the possibility of an automatic extraction of the data of interest, which represents the challenge we are facing today. The historical data will allow us to improve the description of the volcanic phenomena of past eruptions and to realize a better comprehension of which territories were affected by past volcanic events and which were the problems that the institutional actors of the time had to face and how they did it, so as not to fall into the same possible errors. In relation to these issues, the correct use of historical data combined with all the various types of volcanological data has already proven to be fundamental both in the definition of eruptive scenarios and in the formulation of emergency management plans. This is the case of the description of the maximum expected explosive eruption and the inclusion of an effusive and fissural scenario never taken into consideration until now in the event of a reactivation of Vesuvius volcano.
How to cite: Principe, C. and Marini, C.: The use of historical sources in the assessment of volcanic scenarios and risk management, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-21244, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-21244, 2025.
Volcanic risk lives a composite soul when analysed by those who must prevent it or respond to the consequences it may bring for the population, rights, and activities on the ground. It is a question of establishing the point of convergence between administration and technical activity for the optimal implementation of a prevention system adapted to the changes, appropriate to the individual administrative systems on which the risk affects or may affect.Boundaries, assignments and responsibilities must be established to avoid escapes from events and systems that are unable to respond to unforeseen events in a timely and effective manner. The aim of this contribution is to study the possible systemic convergences and differences that the events presented in Italy.
How to cite: Brigante, V.: Volcanic risk prevention within shared availability of science and administration, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-2143, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-2143, 2025.
The volcanic risk prevention system requires proper coordination with the civil defense system, because it is necessary to provide a response model to deal promptly and rapidly with emergency situations that may result from volcano eruption. Especially in areas with high population density, it is important not only to monitor the geological and seismic status of the volcano, but also to organize effective interventions to protect the safety of local communities. The Italian experience, which features two large urban centers-Naples and Catania-in close proximity to two volcanoes, one inactive and the other active, may offer some interesting insights into civil defense emergency response models, with a view also to comparison at the international level.
How to cite: Gullo, N.: Volcanic risk prevention and civil protection system, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-5206, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-5206, 2025.
Abstract EGU 14- 19 aprile 2024 Vienna
Barbara Accettura - Gabriella De Giorgi- Francesco Fabrizio Tuccari - Marco Brocca - Marco Francesco Errico - Vittoria Giannini - Carla Saracino - sara Ciccarese
Environmental protection and volcanic risk prevention tools
The goal of reducing the impacts produced by eruptive events on habitat and habitati in
areas exposed to volcanic risk is linked to coherent planning, supported by a regulatory
apparatus that, leaving room for local guidelines, orients urban design according to safety
criteria, risk mitigation standards and sustainability objectives. In the light of an approach
oriented toward the reversal of the principles of prevention and precaution, an effective
urban planning policy assumes importance, more than as a policy of emergency
management and ex post reconstruction, as the anticipatory and thoughtful preparation of
adequate prevention tools, elaborated on the basis of an accurate risk assessment
analysis and suitable to produce positive externalities on the protection of the environment
and the territory, within the perimeter of an adequate economic and ecological
sustainability of the choices adopted
How to cite: Accettura, B., De Giorgi, G., Tuccari, F. F., Brocca, M., saracino, C., giannini, V., ciccarese, S., and errico, M. F.: Tutela dell'ambiente e strumenti di oprevenzuiobne del rischio vulcanico, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-9332, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-9332, 2025.
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.
How to cite: Cimini, S. and Valentini, F.: Law, Science and Community in the bradyseismic crisis: integrated intervention strategies for the safety of the population and the stability of infrastructures, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-9178, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-9178, 2025.
Post-disaster reconstruction represents a crucial challenge, requiring a balance between speed of action, transparency and compliance with the principles of the rule of law. This contribution analyses the legal and institutional framework governing reconstruction interventions following natural disasters, highlighting the role of administrative authorities in the elaboration and implementation of recovery plans. Particular attention is paid to the interaction between national and European legal sources, as well as to the use of transnational financing and coordination instruments, such as the European Union Solidarity Fund. Through a comparative and multidisciplinary analysis, the critical points of current legislation are explored, including the risk of bureaucratic inefficiency, respect for fundamental rights and the management of public resources. The study proposes strategies to strengthen institutional resilience, promoting an integrated approach that combines the urgency of interventions with the need to ensure sustainability, inclusiveness and stakeholder participation, and examining the role of civil protection.
How to cite: Canciani, S.: Multi-level governance: post-calamity reconstruction, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-11491, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-11491, 2025.
The work aims to undertake a research effort to envision new and effective models of shared management of volcanic risk in Italy, thereby expanding the range of actors involved in this activity. The research starts with the study of the regulatory framework outlined by the current Civil Protection Code (Legislative Decree No. 1/2018), which expressly provides for the participation not only of public and private institutions and organizations but also of individual and associated citizens in the process of developing civil protection plans. The idea is that effective risk prevention in a territory requires, first and foremost, a correct assessment and understanding of the risks, the extent of which, however, is influenced by a variety of factors, not all of which are technical or scientific in nature. For instance, local risk perception and the socio-cultural context of the territory can significantly affect the impact of a volcanic eruption.It is precisely from this awareness that the work seeks to verify whether the shared administration tools recognized by our legal system, as expressions of the principle of horizontal subsidiarity, can effectively guide competent administrations in formulating functional strategies for risk management in high-vulnerability areas, or whether new tools need to be conceived.
How to cite: Interlandi, M., Napolitano, C., Tomassi, L., Giannandrea, M., Cappabianca, C., and speranza, S.: “The role of the local community in the administrative management of volcanic risk.” , EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-18564, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-18564, 2025.
This poster explores the critical role of public participation and institutional transparency in volcanic risk management, with a focus on legal and governance frameworks. By examining recent initiatives, including the Italian Vulcano 2022 and Exe Flegrei 2024 exercises, it highlights how transparent communication tools like the IT-Alert system and collaborative evacuation drills can improve preparedness and resilience in high-risk areas. The findings emphasize the importance of integrating local knowledge with scientific expertise while maintaining institutional clarity in communication and decision-making processes. Key challenges such as misinformation and limited public awareness are addressed alongside practical recommendations for policymakers, disaster management professionals, and public authorities to strengthen participatory approaches and ensure compliance with legal standards in volcanic risk management.
How to cite: Fratto Rosi Grippaudo, E.: Empowering Communities: Institutional Transparency and Public Participation in Volcanic Risk Management, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-12798, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-12798, 2025.
Tutela dell'ambiente e strumenti di prevenzione del rischio vulcanico. testo precedente inserito
L’obiettivo di riduzione degli impatti prodotti da eventi eruttivi su habitat e habitati nelle aree
esposte a rischio vulcanico è legato ad una pianificazione coerente, supportata da un apparato
normativo che, lasciando spazio alle linee guida locali, orienti la progettazione urbanistica secondo
criteri di sicurezza, standards di mitigazione del rischio e obiettivi di sostenibilità. Alla luce di un
approccio orientato all’inveramento dei principi di prevenzione e precauzione, un’efficace politica
urbanistica assume rilievo, oltre che come politica di gestione dell’emergenza e di ricostruzione ex
post, come predisposizione anticipatoria e ponderata di adeguati strumenti di prevenzione,
elaborati sulla scorta di un’accurata risk assessment analysis e di servizi ecosistemici idonei a
produrre esternalità positive sulla tutela dell’ambiente e del territorio, nel perimetro di una
adeguata sostenibilità economica ed ecologica delle scelte adottate.
Environmental protection and volcanic risk prevention tools
The goal of reducing the impacts produced by eruptive events on habitat and habitati in areas
exposed to volcanic risk is linked to coherent planning, supported by a regulatory apparatus that,
leaving room for local guidelines, orients urban design according to safety criteria, risk mitigation
standards and sustainability objectives. In the light of an approach oriented toward the reversal of
the principles of prevention and precaution, an effective urban planning policy assumes
importance, more than as a policy of emergency management and ex post reconstruction, as the
anticipatory and thoughtful preparation of adequate prevention tools, elaborated on the basis of
an accurate risk assessment analysis and suitable to produce positive externalities on the
protection of the environment and the territory, within the perimeter of an adequate economic
and ecological sustainability of the choices adopted.
How to cite: ciccarese, S.: Tutela dell'ambiente e strumenti di prevenzione del rischio vulcanico, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-17208, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-17208, 2025.
L’obiettivo di riduzione degli impatti prodotti da eventi eruttivi su habitat e habitati nelle aree esposte a rischio vulcanico è legato ad una pianificazione coerente, supportata da un apparato normativo che, lasciando spazio alle linee guida locali, orienti la progettazione urbanistica secondo criteri di sicurezza, standards di mitigazione del rischio e obiettivi di sostenibilità. Alla luce di un approccio orientato all’inveramento dei principi di prevenzione e precauzione, un’efficace politica urbanistica assume rilievo, oltre che come politica di gestione dell’emergenza e di ricostruzione ex post, come predisposizione anticipatoria e ponderata di adeguati strumenti di prevenzione, elaborati sulla scorta di un’accurata risk assessment analysis e di servizi ecosistemici idonei a produrre esternalità positive sulla tutela dell’ambiente e del territorio, nel perimetro di una adeguata sostenibilità economica ed ecologica delle scelte adottate.
The goal of reducing the impacts produced by eruptive events on habitat and habitati in areas exposed to volcanic risk is linked to coherent planning, supported by a regulatory apparatus that, leaving room for local guidelines, orients urban design according to safety criteria, risk mitigation standards and sustainability objectives. In the light of an approach oriented toward the reversal of the principles of prevention and precaution, an effective urban planning policy assumes importance, more than as a policy of emergency management and ex post reconstruction, as the anticipatory and thoughtful preparation of adequate prevention tools, elaborated on the basis of an accurate risk assessment analysis and suitable to produce positive externalities on the protection of the environment and the territory, within the perimeter of an adequate economic and ecological sustainability of the choices adopted.
How to cite: Errico, M. F.: Tutela dell'ambiente e strumenti di prevenzione del rischio vulcanico , EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-18047, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-18047, 2025.
The adoption of low-cost technologies for geographic observation and environmental monitoring enables the development of a distributed and systematic participatory system for managing natural hazards, including volcanic risks. This approach integrates local observers, that we may call "On-Site Sentinels," selected from residents in monitored areas. These actors, leveraging their continuous presence in the territory, can collect relevant data using accessible tools such as flying drones, rover drones, thermal cameras, and open-source GIS platforms.
Bottom-up information can support local authorities and civil protection organizations in planning, prevention, and emergency management, facilitating decisions based on up-to-date and contextualized data. Documentation and mapping efforts can be further enriched by participatory platforms (APPGIS, WEBGIS) and early warning systems integrated with social networks.
However, to ensure the effectiveness of this grassroots involvement, it is crucial to develop structured synergies between local communities and relevant authorities. This process requires clear protocols, operational standards, and continuous dialogue. Monitoring and information methodologies based on low-cost technologies and integrated data collection can be successfully applied, enhancing the monitoring and protection of territories facing complex risks and various forms of natural hazards.
Effectively implementing these tools can overcome current regulatory and organizational challenges, transforming local communities into active partners in safeguarding the territory.
How to cite: Casagrande, G. and Rodelli, R.: The Potential Role of Local Communities and Low-Cost Technologies in Monitoring and Protection against natural hazards, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-19187, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-19187, 2025.
Bottom-up risk management can be achieved through the use of on-sight sentinels, operational figures that monitor the territory and provide real-time alerts. This contribution focuses on the authorisation profiles related to their establishment and operation, analysing the European and national regulatory framework. In particular, issues relating to the granting of authorisations, the regulation of competences and the technical and training requirements necessary to ensure the reliability and effectiveness of their activities are examined. The legal implications of data collection and management by non-institutional parties are also examined, with reference to privacy protection and liability for errors or omissions. The analysis highlights the limitations of the current authorisation system and proposes solutions to harmonise legislation, while ensuring effective coordination between local actors and central institutions. The aim is to outline a legal framework that enhances the role of on-sight sentinels as an integral part of the public risk management system, while respecting the principles of legality and proportionality.
How to cite: De Angelis, L.: Bottom-up risk management: on-sight sentinels and their authorisation profiles, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-11540, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-11540, 2025.
L’obiettivo di riduzione degli impatti prodotti da eventi eruttivi su habitat e habitati nelle aree
esposte a rischio vulcanico è legato ad una pianificazione coerente, supportata da un apparato
normativo che, lasciando spazio alle linee guida locali, orienti la progettazione urbanistica secondo
criteri di sicurezza, standards di mitigazione del rischio e obiettivi di sostenibilità. Alla luce di un
approccio orientato all’inveramento dei principi di prevenzione e precauzione, un’efficace politica
urbanistica assume rilievo, oltre che come politica di gestione dell’emergenza e di ricostruzione ex
post, come predisposizione anticipatoria e ponderata di adeguati strumenti di prevenzione,
elaborati sulla scorta di un’accurata risk assessment analysis e di servizi ecosistemici idonei a
produrre esternalità positive sulla tutela dell’ambiente e del territorio, nel perimetro di una
adeguata sostenibilità economica ed ecologica delle scelte adottate.
Environmental protection and volcanic risk prevention tools
The goal of reducing the impacts produced by eruptive events on habitat and habitati in areas
exposed to volcanic risk is linked to coherent planning, supported by a regulatory apparatus that,
leaving room for local guidelines, orients urban design according to safety criteria, risk mitigation
standards and sustainability objectives. In the light of an approach oriented toward the reversal of
the principles of prevention and precaution, an effective urban planning policy assumes
importance, more than as a policy of emergency management and ex post reconstruction, as the
anticipatory and thoughtful preparation of adequate prevention tools, elaborated on the basis of
an accurate risk assessment analysis and suitable to produce positive externalities on the
protection of the environment and the territory, within the perimeter of an adequate economic
and ecological sustainability of the choices adopted.
How to cite: Brocca, M.: Tutela dell’’ambiente e strumenti di prevenzione del rischio vulcanico, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-19230, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-19230, 2025.
In the Italian legal system, the analysis and investigation of volcanic risk requires dealing with the evolution of the organization and monitoring, surveillance and prevention activities of the national and local civil protection system, but it cannot be considered exclusively a "geological" theme, since it depends and is also conditioned by the impact of human activities on the territory. From this perspective, it is necessary to integrate the field of research with an in-depth study of the concurrent relevance of the theme of landscape protection and the parks regime. In particular, in the Italian experience and in the Sicilian region, the presence of volcanoes and the related management of volcanic risk within the territory and the complex dimension of the activities of the parks of Etna, Pantelleria and the Aeolian Islands take on importance. We therefore propose a development of analysis that takes into account, in the short and long term, the integrated vision of human activities in the territory, in order to guarantee the coherence, effectiveness and sustainability of risk prevention and good management together with indispensable profiles of protection and enhancement of the landscape also through the use of parks.
How to cite: Ventimiglia, C., Immordino, M., and Armao, G.: Protected areas and volcanoes, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-21138, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-21138, 2025.
