The present initiative comes one year after the seminar “Flood damage survey and assessment: which priorities for research and practise?” held at Politecnico di Milano on 24-25 January 2013. On that occasion, researchers and practitioners from Italy and Europe met to identify critical issues and priorities for future research and practice on flood damage and post disaster needs assessments.
The first objective of the seminar is to analyse which is the state of art one year after the first meeting; to understand whether or not things are improved; if priorities and needs have changed, also taking into consideration requirements and challenges placed by the next deadline of the European Floods Directive (i.e. Flood Risk Management plans are required by 2015) and by the recent flood events which hit the Italian territory in the last year. Indeed, recent events stressed again the unsuitability of actions so far adopted to mitigate hydrogeological risk and the need for a more efficient and effective risk management, based on good quality, high standard and reliable data.
The second objective of the seminar is to extend the network of people created in the first meeting, increasing the sharing of experience and knowledge among both practitioners and scientists in Italy and worldwide. For this reason, several contributions are planned on the first day of the seminar (11 April, afternoon) by representatives of universities, research centres, civil protection agencies, local authorities and insurance companies. On the second day (12 April, morning) instead a round table is planned to develop the backbone of an updated version of the white paper which may represent a starting point for future research and applications.
The seminar is organised by the Monitoring and Warning Centre of the Umbria Region (i.e. Centro Funzionale Decentrato, CFD) and by Politecnico di Milano. The seminar will be held during and thanks to the sponsorship of EXPO Emergenze, the Italian exhibition for emergency and security.
PEARL involvement at the Seminar
The activities of PEARL related to flood damage assessment and operational flood management are presented at the seminar on damage assessment.
The flyer of the seminar is available here.
