A5068183042- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Landslides and related hazards
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Dam Engineering and Safety
- Hydraulic flow and structures
- Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
- Plant responses to water stress
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
University of Bologna
2022-2024
The combination of climate change and social ecological factors will increase risks societies face from hydrometeorological hazards (HMH). Reducing these is typically achieved through the deployment engineered (or grey) infrastructure but increasingly, nature-based solutions (NBS) are being considered. Most risk assessment frameworks do not allow capturing well role NBS can play in addressing all components risk, i.e., hazard characteristics exposure vulnerability social-ecological systems....
Floods and droughts are the events that most threaten crop production; however, impact of floods on crops is still not fully understood often under-reported. Nowadays, multiple sources information approaches support estimation agricultural losses due to floods. This study aims understand differences in loss estimates provided by two conceptually different (crop models expert-based models), evaluating their sensitivity flood hazard inputs. We investigated challenges assessments referring a...
Increasingly frequent and intense flood events, combined with the remarkable industrialization process of cities, are placing transportation networks under stress. The loads that roads railways must resist nowadays often greater than those considered for their design; furthermore, state ageing is such any disturbance (flood, earthquake, landslide) could cause a total or partial interruption traffic resulting in socio-economic losses.Bridges represent most vulnerable component transport...
Abstract. The Po River District Authority promoted the MOVIDA project with aim to define appropriate methodologies for flood risk assessment and being compliant European Floods Directive (Directive 2007/60/EC). A dedicated Open Source Geographic Information System (i.e. QGIS geoprocessing modules) has been developed mapping expected damages in all areas at significant (Northern Italy), considering five categories of exposed elements (population, infrastructures, economic activities,...
Floods are one of the most frequent and widespread natural hazards globally. Over past 20 years, number floods has more than doubled from previous two decades, resulting in annual losses around $40 billion worldwide. Among various sectors exposed, agriculture is certainly vulnerable to events this type, given its close dependence on weather conditions. However, although constitute second serious threat agricultural areas, causing total production up 20%, their impacts still difficult assess....
<p><span>The estimation of flood damage plays a key role for planning and implementing risk prevention mitigation measures. While many contributions can be found in the scientific literature about inundation to buildings infrastructures, losses agricultural sector is currently poorly discussed. Even if different conceptual or physically based models have been proposed as well, studies testing their application real cases are still not sufficiently abundant due...
<p>The Po River District Authority has recently signed a research agreement with 20 Italian Universities and the National Research Council (CNR) for updating Flood Risk Management Plan, in compliance European Floods Directive (2007/60/EC). Specifically, MOVIDA project envisages efforts of consortium dedicated to flood damage modelling (8 CNR) provide an Information System capable perform analytical evaluation mapping expected damage, overcoming limitations present maps where...
<p>With the intent to be compliant with European Floods Directive (2007/60/EC) duties, Po River District Authority gathered expertise of 20 Italian Universities and National Research Council (CNR) active on hydrology (including climate change effects), hydraulics damage modelling. Within this research framework, MOVIDA project is developed by a consortium dedicated flood modelling (8 CNR) intends provide an Information System capable perform analytical evaluation mapping...