Civil protection and Damaging Hydrogeological Events: comparative analysis of the 2000 and 2015 events in Calabria (southern Italy)
Olga Petrucci
National Research Council of Italy, Research Institute for
Geo-hydrological Protection (CNR-IRPI), Rende (CS), 87036, Italy
Tommaso Caloiero
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Agriculture and
Forest Systems in the Mediterranean (CNR-ISAFOM), Rende (CS), 87036, Italy
Angela Aurora Pasqua
National Research Council of Italy, Research Institute for
Geo-hydrological Protection (CNR-IRPI), Rende (CS), 87036, Italy
Piero Perrotta
Calabrian Civil Protection Unit, Catanzaro, 88100, Italy
Luigi Russo
Calabrian Civil Protection Unit, Catanzaro, 88100, Italy
Carlo Tansi
Calabrian Civil Protection Unit, Catanzaro, 88100, Italy
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This work presents a methodological approach to perform the comparative analysis of 2 events affecting the Calabria region (southern Italy), by collecting all the qualitative and quantitative features useful to describe both rain and damage.
The first event occurred between 8 and 10 September 2000 while the second event occurred between 30 October and 1 November 2015.
We concluded that, in the 2015 event, the management of pre-event phases allowed to reduce the number of victims.
This work presents a methodological approach to perform the comparative analysis of 2 events...