scholarly journals Geology, slow-moving landslides, and damages to buildings in the Verbicaro area (north-western Calabria region, southern Italy)

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Borrelli ◽  
Gianfranco Nicodemo ◽  
Settimio Ferlisi ◽  
Dario Peduto ◽  
Silvio Di Nocera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Calabria Region ◽  
Slow Moving ◽  
Area North ◽  
North Western

scholarly journals Small-scale analysis to rank municipalities requiring slow-moving landslide risk mitigation measures: the case study of the Calabria region (southern Italy)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Gullà ◽  
Gianfranco Nicodemo ◽  
Settimio Ferlisi ◽  
Luigi Borrelli ◽  
Dario Peduto
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Phase Method ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Landslide Risk ◽  
Calabria Region ◽  
Slow Moving ◽  
Gis Environment

AbstractThis paper proposes a three-phase method that combines multi-source (i.e. topographic, thematic, monitoring) input data in a GIS environment to rank—at small (1:250,000) scale—administrative units (e.g. municipalities) based on their exposure to slow-moving landslide risk within a selected area (e.g. a region) and, accordingly, detect those primarily requiring mitigation measures. The method is applied in the Calabria region (southern Italy) where several municipalities are widely affected by slow-moving landslides that systematically cause damage to buildings and infrastructure networks resulting in significant economic losses. The results obtained are validated based on the information gathered from previous studies carried out at large (municipal) scale. The work undertaken represents a first, fundamental step of a wider circular approach that can profitably facilitate the decision makers in addressing the issue of the slow-moving landslide risk mitigation in a sustainable way.

Assessing Seismic Resilience of School Educational Sector. An attempt to establish the initial conditions in Calabria Region, Southern Italy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cora Fontana ◽  
Eleonora Cianci ◽  
Massimiliano Moscatelli
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
Calabria Region ◽  
Structural Improvement ◽  
First Case ◽  
School Sector ◽  
Seismic Resilience

<p>School education constitutes one of the strategic functions to be recovered after an earthquake. The structural improvement of school buildings together with the strengthening of the administrators’ capacity to react positively following an earthquake are key factors that contribute to social vulnerability’s reduction. Nevertheless, in Italy, the issue of risk reduction policies related to school sector is not yet consolidated in the institutional agendas. Observing the last major Italian earthquakes what remains predominant is school buildings’ damage degree with consequent interruption of the system functionality. Among the causes: the building heritage vulnerability and the lack of risk mitigation policies, capable of building a resilient community for future earthquakes. That of resilience is considered a relevant paradigm to address the issue of how to strengthen the school sector’s capacity to ensure the buildings physical safety and to guarantee the maintenance of the school function, looking at pre and post-event phases.</p><p>The paper proposes a set of indicators and a methodology for a preliminary assessment of the educational sector’s seismic resilience, in terms of initial conditions. The method has been tested on a first case study: Calabria Region, Southern Italy. The results show that spatial differences in the educational sector’s seismic resilience are evident. Except for some large urban areas, the less resilient areas are grouped mainly in the southern part of the Region, while the most resilient ones are located mostly in the central-northern sector. The ambition is to identify a repeatable approach, useful as guidelines for school seismic prevention policies.</p>

Early and Middle Holocene Antler Tools With Holes From the Gravel Pits of the Smarhon Area, North-Western Belarus

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-110
Author(s):  
Aliaksandr Vashanau ◽  
Anna Malyutina ◽  
Maryia Tkachova ◽  
Maxim Chernyavskiy ◽  
Evgeniya Tkach
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Complex Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Gravel Pits ◽  
Area North ◽  
Mesolithic Period ◽  
Early And Middle Holocene ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
North Western ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The present article focuses on artefacts made of antlers with holes drilled for the haft, both those available in physical collections and those known only from archaeological literature. This category of items is held by a number of central and regional museums in Belarus, as well as in private collections. Such ‘dispersion’ of the items makes their study problematic. Until now, no comprehensive study of antler artefacts with drilled holes from gravel pits located in Smarhon has been conducted. Publications have so far considered only the specimens that are most representative from the point of view of comparative typology. Michal Chernyavskiy and Piotr Kalinovskiy invariably associated tools with drilled holes with the Mesolithic period. However, this group of tools is more diverse and chronologically complicated than previously thought. The authors of the present article propose a new typological scheme for this item category which is part of a pan-European cultural and chronological context based on a complex analysis of antler artefacts with drilled holes.

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