A5080035912- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Water Systems and Optimization
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Water resources management and optimization
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Dam Engineering and Safety
- Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Landslides and related hazards
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Hydraulic flow and structures
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
University of Florence
2016-2025
Accademia di Belle Arti di Frosinone
2019-2024
Kharazmi University
2022
Civil responders currently have limited information available to them support flood incident planning. A new generation of tools are emerging that produce more detailed understanding impacts on people and accessibility during floods. These typically applied in isolation, proving only a partial assessment impacts. This paper integrates analysis hydraulics, transport human safety explore the impact flooding pedestrians drivers, its implications emergency routes service areas. reference...
Abstract. People's safety is the first objective to be fulfilled by flood risk mitigation measures, and according existing reports on causes of casualties, most fatalities are due inappropriate behaviour such as walking or driving in floodwaters. Currently available experimental data people instability floodwaters suffer from a large dispersion primarily depending variability physical characteristics subjects. This paper introduces dimensionless mobility parameter θP for partly immersed...
Abstract. Effective flood risk management requires a realistic estimation of losses. However, available damage estimates are still characterized by significant levels uncertainty, questioning the capacity models to depict real damages. With joint effort eight international research groups, objective this study was compare, in blind-validation test, performances different for assessment direct residential sector at building level (i.e. microscale). The test consisted common case high...
Abstract Natural hazards pose a significant threat to historical cities which have an authentic and universal value for mankind. This study aims at codifying multi-risk workflow seismic flood hazards, site-scale applications in cities, provides the Average Annual Loss buildings within coherent multi-exposure multi-vulnerability framework. The proposed methodology includes correlation joint probability analysis identify role of urban development re-shaping risk components contexts. is unified...
Abstract. The impacts of floods on environmental assets are often not assessed. In this communication, we reflect issue by analysing the reported consequences 2023 Emilia-Romagna floods. information is constructed collecting data from reports, press releases, and interviews in aftermath events. most frequently damage involves water resources water-related ecosystems, with cultural supporting ecosystem services particularly affected. Indirect effects time space, intrinsic recovery capacity,...
Historic areas have faced escalating risks due to population growth, urbanization, climate change, and increasing public awareness. Existing risk assessment methods often focus on individual hazards, necessitating a more integrated approach. This research introduces comprehensive multi-risk model assess the potential impacts of rainfall earthquakes Lisbon's historic city centre. The considers key components – hazard, exposure, vulnerability providing detailed evaluation. Pluvial flood...
Abstract. The adoption of 2007/60/EC Directive requires European countries to implement flood hazard and risk maps by the end 2013. Flood is product hazard, vulnerability exposure, all three be estimated with comparable level accuracy. route assessment consequently much more than hydraulic modelling inundation, that mapping. While have already been implemented in many countries, quantitative damage are still at a preliminary level. A parsimonious quasi-2-D model here adopted, having...
Evaluating potential consequences of floods on cultural heritage is one the objectives 60/2007/EC Floods Directive. Nevertheless, peculiarities in terms data availability, exposure values and vulnerability, make flood damage risk analyses rarely applied. This work aims at developing a GIS-based Flood Damage Index for Cultural Heritage (FDICH) that (i) weights based level listing, (ii) vulnerability ad-hoc taxonomy, (iii) provides density per unit surface instead than point classification....
Abstract Flood risk assessment is a crucial step for flood management purposes, thus answering the requirements of European Directive 60/2007/EC (European Commission). In this work, census data scale, which has been considered as good compromise between spatial resolution and availability open socio‐economic data, adopted analysis. The damage categories included are structures, household contents most representative economic activities in city Florence (Italy). Moreover, since an important...
Abstract. Floods are one of the most frequent and damaging natural threats worldwide. Whereas assessment direct impacts is well advanced, evaluation indirect less frequently achieved. Indirect not due to physical contact with flood water but result, for example, from reduced performance infrastructures. Linear critical infrastructures (such as roads pipes) have an interconnected nature that may lead failure propagation, so extend far beyond inundated areas and/or period. This work presents...
Abstract Cultural heritage (CH) is threatened by floods; however, the understanding of exposure and vulnerability challenging makes risk resilience assessment rarely practiced. CH crucial for post‐disaster resilience, especially when local economy based on tourism. The work presents a novel framework evaluating flood indirect impacts, associated in art cities. estimated using number visitors as proxy variable social appreciation. A new depth‐idleness function assigning reopening time to...
Ensuring a good ecological status of water bodies is one the key challenges communities and objectives European Water Framework Directive. Although recent works identified most significant stressors affecting quality rivers, ability to predict overall rivers based on limited amount easily accessible geospatial data has not been investigated so far. Most analyses focus detailed local modelling measurements which cannot be systematically applied at regional scales for purposes resources...
Abstract. Environmental assets provide important benefits to society and support the equilibrium of natural processes. They can be affected by floods; however, flood risk analyses usually neglect environmental areas due (i) a lack agreement on what should considered an asset, (ii) poor understanding values, (iii) absence damage models. The aim this work is advance exposure river floods first identifying asset typologies that could in second introducing method, named EnvXflood, estimate...
Achieving a good ecological status for rivers is primary goal under European water protection legislation, and establishing suitable environmental flows (e-flows) key to reach this objective. Typically, statistical hydrologic methods are used determine e-flows at the river basin district scale; however, these often overlook quality critical flow-ecology relationships, i.e., models linking streamflow responses. This study integrates monitoring data with address limitations of hydrological...
Natural hazards pose significant risks to cultural heritage, leading monetary losses and fatalities annually.  Hazard exposure encompasses spatial, quantitative, qualitative aspects of potentially impacted elements. Cultural heritage necessitates the integration both intangible tangible values in risk assessment frameworks for various reasons, including prioritization safeguarding assets effective management. This study introduces a participatory, quantitative approach evaluate...
Among the elements exposed to natural hazards in urban settlements, cultural heritage stands out for its unique intangible values and connection economic activities community resilience. study presents a participatory, quantitative framework assessing exposure of assets hazards, integrating physical risk metrics with values. Conducted historical city Florence, Italy, research focuses on flood seismic employing innovative methodologies prioritize conservation based community-driven insights....
In Europe, water management at the river basin district scale requires to satisfy both human supply and ecological preservation achieve Water Framework Directive (WFD) objectives. Freshwater resources are essential for needs ecosystem balance, but factors like climate extremes, population growth, pollutant pressures pose serious challenges. Environmental flow (e-flow) is defined as required sustain aquatic ecosystems, traditional methods establish e-flow thresholds large spatial scales lack...
The European “Floods” Directive requires river basin district authorities to identify flood prone areas and potential adverse consequences on built natural environments. However, there are few examples of methods assess impact environment at the spatial scale districts. Moreover, lack data concerning environmental impacts occurred during past floods constrains their identification as well definition empirical vulnerability models.This work examines 2023 in Emilia-Romagna...
Bridges are critical infrastructures of the transport network given their high construction costs and limited alternative routes. Flood events most frequent cause damage to infrastructure compared any other natural hazard. Bridge overtopping is a phenomenon with serious safety consequences for drivers leads cascading effects such as traffic disruption reduced efficiency evacuation emergency plans. Whereby, proactive management essential enhance bridge resilience ensure user safety.This work...
Water resources in Mediterranean regions face growing stress due to the combined effects of climate change, land use changes, and anthropogenic pressures. This study investigates sensitivity natural anthropized river flows these factors, focusing on basins Tuscany (Italy) Valencian Community (Spain). The research uses advanced hydrological models (MOBIDIC TETIS) estimate flows, quantify water stress, introduce Ecohydrological Distance Index (EcFI) assess deviations from ecological...
Preserving cultural heritage from natural hazards is of paramount importance due to the role that plays in supporting community resilience and economic activities. Therefore, being able map risk faced by heritage, especially a multi-risk perspective, useful provide policy-making tool which highlights hotspot areas.In this work, we present preliminary version at national scale considering flood, earthquake, landslide wildfire hazards, Italy. The exposure dataset provided Italian Ministry...
ABSTRACT Art cities are characterized by peculiar exposure and vulnerability aspects which rarely addressed in flood risk studies. This works investigates art terms of resilience considering the effects cultural heritage. Flood hazard considers a “what‐if” scenario comparison based on an historical event as it occurred past would occur today future with countermeasures place. The analysis is carried out city Florence (Italy), UNESCO World heritage site, affected last 1966. results show that...