“There Resilience to the landslides cannot be based exclusively on Technical knowledge, technological abilities And organization: you need a cultural change involving the population he is Political decision makers” Cadorewhere a new landslide has made access to Cortina difficult.
The document, drawn up following the conference on the topic organized in Rome on 5 June last, highlights the criticality still present. “Although the knowledge and forecasting skills have improved, the Knowledge of landslide phenomena remain incomplete. An obstacle – reads the report – is the lack of systematic and homogeneous mapping of the landslides, fundamental to develop reliable forecast models and for one informed planning“.
The authors of the document bring the events of the May 2023 in Emilia-Romagnawhen there were over 80 thousand landslides in 6 thousand square kilometers, many areas that until then had not been identified as unstable.
To improve the ability to defend territory and population from landslides, i steps to take highlighted in the relationship are many still: from the need for recognize and map the landslides immediately after they took place to exploit all the technologies available, like those satellitefrom the improvement of the monitoring up to financing of the structures necessary and the insertion of New qualified staff.
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