Abstract

Intense and/or prolonged rainy periods can lead to the development of territorial crisis during which landslides andfloods simultaneously trigger on wide areas. During these crises the possibility to manage the emergency phasesand ensure the maintenance of man activities which are usually carried out in the hit area is mainly tied to the roadnetwork efficiency.Unfortunately, in areas characterized by rugged morphology, long road tracks pass through unstable lands whichare frequently affected by landslide phenomena. At the same time, on coastal areas the road network is most intenselyexposed to the action of rivers, especially if the bridges crossing them are not enough wide to convey alsoordinary river floods.This situation can be easily recognized in many areas all around the world: in the present work we present themethodological approach and an exemplificative case study on a test area located in Calabria (South Italy). Here,also because of a low efficiency of the road network, during heavy rainfall periods, landslides and floods causeseveral traffic interruptions which hinder or set back the movements of people and stuffs and, in the most severecases, make difficult emergency management actions.Data concerning damage caused to the road network by landslides and floods have been extracted from a widearchive containing data on historical landslides and floods occurred through the past centuries all over the region.For the selected study area these data have been uploaded in a GIS, in order to obtain the phenomena/damagedistribution during the most severe rainfall events occurred through the past century. Data concerning triggeringrainfall, extracted from a regional rainfall database, have been treated in order to schematize some main models ofrainfall/phenomena distribution which occurred in the past and can be used for preventive measures.The results of this activity can be exploited for practical purposes, to define scenarios and strategies for risk management,to suggest priorities in policy towards disaster mitigation and preparedness and to predispose defensivemeasures and civil protection plans ranked according to the type's situation to cope with.

Autore Pugliese

• Polemio Maurizio

Tutti gli autori

• Petrucci O.; Polemio M.; Pasqua A.A.

Titolo volume/Rivista

Geophysical research abstracts

Anno di pubblicazione

2010

ISSN

1029-7006

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