Papers by Massimo Lanfranco
test of a mobile GIS application to support eld data collection and mapping activities on geomorp... more test of a mobile GIS application to support eld data collection and mapping activities on geomorphosites. Dans G. Regolini-Bissig & E. Reynard (Éds), Mapping Geoheritage (pp. 115–127). Lausanne: Université, Institut de géographie.
Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 7, 2014
ABSTRACT
The presentation illustrates the background and the aim of the research project "Collaborative ma... more The presentation illustrates the background and the aim of the research project "Collaborative management of data for natural risk prevention and civil protection"
It is acknowledged that major and minor disasters are a "reality" to cope with, as they... more It is acknowledged that major and minor disasters are a "reality" to cope with, as they are part of our environment. In the last 20 years the wider debate on disasters preparedness and relief operations underline that our culture should switch from "war" against hazards to "preparedness" in order to decrease the vulnerability of our societies [Wisner et al., 1994]. In this perspective the key word "resilience" fosters a wider cultural change that should drive the risk & emergency management towards a participatory dimension of all the key players: scientific communities experts, civil protection bodies, media, citizens, volunteers, civil society. The aim is to "develop a network between all civil protection actors and interested parties, including the private sector; increasing the knowledge of new prevention, preparedness and response technologies available on the market; and raise public awareness [3rd EU Civil Protection Forum -Bruxell...
Applied Geomatics, 2012
... The main purpose of a local geodatabase consists in the search and storage of all those possi... more ... The main purpose of a local geodatabase consists in the search and storage of all those possible data capable to define the most univocal model of the studied ... 8). ArcPad software generates vector shape-files of large use in GIS project and of great utility in assessments ...
This working paper is a collective effort of a diverse group of professionals and volunteers to p... more This working paper is a collective effort of a diverse group of professionals and volunteers to pull together the most salient issues in care and support for spontaneous unaffiliated volunteers. The hope is that the knowledge, thought leadership, practical tools, case examples and recommendations collected here will contribute to supporting both crisis managers, policy makers and practitioners to provide good care and support for spontaneous unaffiliated volunteers. The single most important point made in this working paper is that it is imperative that crisis management fulfils its duty of care towards spontaneous unaffiliated volunteers. What this looks like in practice will differ significantly from one organization to another, from country to country and from community to community. But the spontaneous unaffiliated volunteers are always there. The care and support they need must be there too.
Since 2010 the term ‘bomba d’acqua’ (water bomb) has developed into an entrenched, popular, media... more Since 2010 the term ‘bomba d’acqua’ (water bomb) has developed into an entrenched, popular, media-defined term for a cloudburst or heavy-to-violent shower in Italy. As a result the term ‘bomba d’acqua’ was used 54 times across 64 Italian newspapers analyzed between 13 July and 16 August 2014 to label the bad weather that characterized the summer of 2014. The result is a confused terminology, with a scientific and journalistic term for the same phenomena. One is standardized, the other is sensationalized. Such terms, introduced by a national media, will
only be recognized by the recipient population, where the term locally exaggerates the nature of the hazard and its disaster frame. The creation and establishment of hazard-related terms driven by persistent mass media usage of, in this case, the “water bomb” also aids in focusing blame on those perceived as responsible for detonating, or failing the predict the impact point of, the ‘bomb.’ Instead, the event is an unpredictable, but common and locally severe natural hazard for which we can predict that there will be a ‘raid’; but we cannot say exactly where the bombs will burst. Unfortunately, our analysis of the French press indicates that the popularity and use of the word ‘bomb’ to describe an event, from terrorist to environmental, is widespread – it having been used 310 times across nine French newspapers during the month of January 2015 alone. It was associated with 17 different categories of information spanning food to weather. The community needs to think hard about the connotations of the new ‘bomb’ terminology, because while it makes scientists and forecasters easier to frame and blame; if has the danger of engendering a false feeling amongst the impacted population that warning can be issued and shelter sought by those responsible for their safety.
Web and mobile emergencies network to real-time information and geodata management
In October 2010 a rainstorm hit some municipalities in Liguria (NW Italy) result-ing in flash flo... more In October 2010 a rainstorm hit some municipalities in Liguria (NW Italy) result-ing in flash floods and debris floods. Rescue operations were carried out without situational awareness due to phone and cellular line failure and civil protection plan deficiency. Relief operations were carried out to recover to previous state with no lesson learned analysis nor legislative upgrade.
A window of opportunity opened to fulfill the disaster management cycle theory.
On October / November 2011, when a wider event struck both Tuscany and Ligu-ria regions causing 12 fatalities, the situation was, more or less, the same as the past year: the window of opportunity closed without a reduction in risk exposure.
After this last event Ligurian Region administration started to re-evaluate hazard mapping and risk assessment methodologies, since debris floods were not consid-ered in official hazard maps and urban planning regulations. But a month later, the temporary building restrictions were reformed to low strict level.
Different to Northwest Italy extensive floods of 1994, that led Italy to a new ap-proach to hazard planning and risk evaluation, Liguria 2010 / 2011 events did not to seemingly involve, bureaucracy and civil society on the new resilience concept and on the use of the emerging technologies and social media.
VALgEO2011 Workshop Proceedings, doi: 10.2788/73045
Major and minor disasters are part of our environment. The challenge we all have to face is to sw... more Major and minor disasters are part of our environment. The challenge we all have to face is to switch from relief to preparedness. Recent events from Haiti to Japan revealed a new scenario: web and mobile technologies can play a crucial role to manage the disasters, increasing and improving the information flow between the different actors and playerscitizens, civil protection bodies, local and central governments, volunteers, media. In this perspective, "the post-Gutemberg revolution" is changing our communication framework and practices. Mobile devices and advanced web data management may ameliorate preparedness and boost crises response in the shadow of natural and man-made disasters, and are defining new approaches and operational models. Key words are: crowdsourcing, geolocation, geomapping. A full integration of web and mobile solutions allows geopositioning and geolocalization, video and photo sharing, voice and data communications, and guarantees accessibility anytime and anywhere. This can also give the direct push to set up an effective operational dual side system to "inform, monitor and control". Starting from the international experiences, Open Resilience Network and Italian Firefighters have carried out tabletop and full scale exercises to test tools and procedures and experiment the use of new technologies to better manage information flow from/to different actors. The paper will focus the ongoing experimental work on missing person emergency, leaded by Italian Firefighters TAS team -Andrea Di Lolli and Davide Lombardoand supported by a multi-competences team from Open Resilience Network and University of Turin -Elena Rapisardi and Massimo Lanfranco. The aim of the paper is to share methods and technologies used, and to show the operational results of the exercise carried out during PROTEC2011, in order to stimulate comments that will be taken into account in the further research steps.
Appl Geomat, DOI 10.1007/s12518-011-0071-z
Geo-information and remote sensing are proper tools to enhance functional strategies for increasi... more Geo-information and remote sensing are proper tools to enhance functional strategies for increasing awareness on natural hazard prevention and for supporting research and operational activities devoted to disaster reduction. An improved earth sciences knowledge coupled with geomatics advanced technologies is here proposed with the goal of reducing human, social, economic, and environmental losses due to natural hazards and related disasters. Research activities lead to the collection and evaluation of data from: global and national literature for the definition of predisposing/triggering factors and evolutionary processes of natural instability phenomena (landslides, floods, storms…) and for the analysis of statistical methods for the prediction of natural disasters; local and regional historical, geological, geomorphological studies of mountain territories of Europe and Developing Countries. Geodatabases, remote sensing, and mobile geographic information systems (GIS) applications were developed to perform analysis of: (1) large, climate-related disaster (Hurricane Mitch, Central America; Zambesi Flood, Mozambique), either for early warning or mitigation measures at the national and international scale; (2) distribution on slope instabilities at the regional scale (Landslide Inventory in the Aosta Valley, NW Italy), to activate prevention and recovering measures; (3) geological and geomorphological controlling factors of seismicity, to provide microzonation maps and scenarios for coseismic response of instable zones (Dronero, NW Italian Alps); (4) earthquake effects on ground and infrastructures, in order to register early assessment for awareness situations and for compile damage inventories (2000, 2001, and 2003 Asti-Alessandria seismic events). The research results has been able to substantiate early impact models by structuring geodatabases on natural disasters and to support humanitarian relief and disaster management activities by creating and testing SRG2, a mobile GIS application for field-data collection on natural hazards and risks.
Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 13, EGU2011-6770-1, 2011
Tyrrhenian Liguria, a region in north-west Italy, is characterised by complex orography, storms, ... more Tyrrhenian Liguria, a region in north-west Italy, is characterised by complex orography, storms, heavy rainfall (due to orographic lift) and flash floods. The subsequent flooding problem impacts the heavily urbanized coastal zone that resides at the exit of any inundated catchment. Heaviest rain occurs in early autumn, when tropical-storm-type convective cells develop due to the high sea surface temperatures experienced offshore of this region. The resulting storms can discharge more up to 500-600 mm of rain in 24h, at rates of up to 100 mm/h. Locally, annual rainfall of up to 2000 mm are typically recorded for the 200 km length of coast between Savona and La Spezia. Across this region as much as 948 mm of rain have been recorded in 24h, as during the 7-8 October 1970 event (this being the highest rainfall ever recorded in Italy, and is the second most extreme rainfall event recorded in Europe).
Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 13, EGU2011-10908-2, 2011
Classical methods for field data collection on geological and geomorphological features are based... more Classical methods for field data collection on geological and geomorphological features are based on the use of relatively simple tools, such as paper notebooks, coloured pencils, base maps, plus old devices as compass, binoculars, photo cameras, . . . together with the personal skills of researchers. So far, data collected on the field had to be interpreted, summarised and redrawn in order to create base geological and geomorphological maps and/or more elaborated geothematic ones. In the last 15 years, the use of computers and other electronic devices for collection, analysis and distribution of field data had a notable development also in the Earth Sciences and their applications to environmental analysis. This originated effective improvements not only in the field activities, but also in the laboratory ones, in terms of enhancement in both rapidity and precision of data processing, interpretation, and representation. Nevertheless, many not-yet-resolved problems concern either the conceptual framework or the practical solutions for field data collection and their transposition into maps. For a complete, faster and more suitable procedure it has been created an application called "SRG" ("Supporto al Rilevamento Geologico": Support to Geological Survey), an extension for ArcPad (ESRI GIS for Windows mobile devices), that consists in a toolbar and a series of vector files usable for surveys and fast digital geothematic mapping. The application, developed in Visual Basic, has a series of functions that allow a fast digital base representation of geological and geomorphological features. Points, polylines and polygons, drawn directly on the screen, allow a fast visualization of mapped features and their influence on civil structure or other geomorphological features. An integrated GPS is used to evaluate the position of the features drawn. Subsequently, the passage of the ground data to a structured and organized data base is automatic, and it almost allows the immediate creation of a "final" and publishable cartography. This way, the field survey becomes an integral part of a complete GIS, without other intermediate passages and can be adjourned in the future. The system has been tested initially in classical geological and geomorphological survey, then adapted for drafting the urban plan of a small town in order to evaluate the geomorphological risk for present and future urbanized areas. New functions were added to survey bridges, levees and other river civil works; here the system was implemented on smartphones based on Windows platform to geotag in the GIS the photos shot during survey. The new research development here presented is inherent geothematic applications in the study of natural heritage, in particular, they need to share, compare and exchange data between researcher and users in unambiguous and accessible ways, possibly following codified standards for map production and user-friendly technologies for results communication. In order to fulfil the above-mentioned requirements, the authors aimed to developed a new application for palm computers to support field data collection and mapping activities on geomorphosites. The paper presents and discusses the result of this research, including some considerations on essentials in mapping activities, attributes of geological/geomorphological features and characteristics of Geomatics tools and methodologies.
Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-9597, 2010, Jan 1, 2010
5) Regione Autonoma Valle D'Aosta, Dipartimento Territorio, Ambiente e Risorse Idriche, Centro Fu... more 5) Regione Autonoma Valle D'Aosta, Dipartimento Territorio, Ambiente e Risorse Idriche, Centro Funzionale, Via Promis 2/a, Aosta, Italy
Conference Presentations by Massimo Lanfranco
Rainstorms and cloudbursts struck the Liguria region (NW Italy) between 2010 and 2014. The
total ... more Rainstorms and cloudbursts struck the Liguria region (NW Italy) between 2010 and 2014. The
total loss of lives in 5 years has been 26, while economic damage is estimated up to 2 billion
Euros. The whole region was hit at different times but the capital city, Genoa, was flooded twice
by the same catchment in 2011 and 2014, resulting in the loss of 7 lives.
In Genoa, the currently estimated flood return time of the main river (Bisagno Torrent) is just
thirty years because of the early 20th century urbanisation and the casing of the final part of the
catchment. The river casing was authorised along the whole Liguria region for "safety" reason
but the failure in estimating the correct maximum water discharge lead to recurrent floods.
Based on the existing data, the increase of floods in Ligurian basins can't be related to the
growing trend of rainfall (although this possibility does exist) but can certainly be linked to
multiplier factors as wild fires, ocean level rise, Mediterranean surface temperature increase and
urban sprawl.
Ligurian Basin Plans (natural risks master plans) don’t consider the sociotechnical dimension of
risk planning in much detail. The passive defence approach leads to the loss of social memory,
driving residents and local officials into a false sense of security. Moreover economic resources
were prioritized toward the "hard" flood protection system, leaving the "soft" part (preparedness,
evacuation plans and emergency response) with little funding. Scientific research was prioritized
similarly, resulting in little scientific support to policymakers on climate change impacts, early
warning systems, resilient urban planning and contingency planning.
Meanwhile “smart cities”, with a holistic approach to planning, are rising to global stage and
Genoa itself joined the mainstream but until now failed to support and reinforce disaster risk
reduction strategies.
This presentation will discuss the impact of bureaucracy and governance on the current and
future disaster scenarios and the possible enhanced action that could be provided by “smart
cities” when used as force multiplier.
While many different actors are involved in crisis management process, one of most effective
appr... more While many different actors are involved in crisis management process, one of most effective
approach for coping with crisis situation is a collaborative crisis management (CCM).
Thus to leverage a flow of information relevant for emergency managers and incident
commanders it is more than crucial to have a reliable and up-to-date information gathered from
credible sources.
A series of crisis management exercises conducted in Poland this year, in framework of FP7
project EDEN could be given as example of practical implementation of CCM.
The paper covers overall outcomes from lessons learned during designing, conducting and
evaluating a series of FP7 EDEN demonstrations in Poland. Each event had its specific
objectives and goals, thus all of them were generally driven by CBRNE hazard crisis situation
scenario. A series of three Virtual Facility (VF) workshops were held at the Main School of Fire
Service early this year.
They were focused on sharing of practical aspects in civil emergency planning process (nuclear
facility emergency scenario) and usage of selected EDEN tools supporting crisis managers.
Thus collaborative and interdisciplinary approach was implemented, enabling different actors to
understand, share and foresight their respective needs. One of most important issues was their
situational awareness in face of emergency radiation incident scenarios. Initial Field Exercise
(IFX) run by Astri Polska in April 2015 enabled the end users to examine specific issues
identified during VF workshops on basis of National Fire Service regional exercise framework.
Realistic CRBNE scenario, allowed sharing and merging data which were crucial for building of
common operational picture. Table Top Exercise (TTX) led by Space Research Centre PAS in
May 2015 was a combined staff training built upon scenarios related to VF workshops and IFX
exercise. One of aim of this exercise was to test and validate different sets of tools supporting
decision-making processes. Therefore, collaborative crisis management approach should be
seen as a way to integrate different actors and build enhanced
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only be recognized by the recipient population, where the term locally exaggerates the nature of the hazard and its disaster frame. The creation and establishment of hazard-related terms driven by persistent mass media usage of, in this case, the “water bomb” also aids in focusing blame on those perceived as responsible for detonating, or failing the predict the impact point of, the ‘bomb.’ Instead, the event is an unpredictable, but common and locally severe natural hazard for which we can predict that there will be a ‘raid’; but we cannot say exactly where the bombs will burst. Unfortunately, our analysis of the French press indicates that the popularity and use of the word ‘bomb’ to describe an event, from terrorist to environmental, is widespread – it having been used 310 times across nine French newspapers during the month of January 2015 alone. It was associated with 17 different categories of information spanning food to weather. The community needs to think hard about the connotations of the new ‘bomb’ terminology, because while it makes scientists and forecasters easier to frame and blame; if has the danger of engendering a false feeling amongst the impacted population that warning can be issued and shelter sought by those responsible for their safety.
A window of opportunity opened to fulfill the disaster management cycle theory.
On October / November 2011, when a wider event struck both Tuscany and Ligu-ria regions causing 12 fatalities, the situation was, more or less, the same as the past year: the window of opportunity closed without a reduction in risk exposure.
After this last event Ligurian Region administration started to re-evaluate hazard mapping and risk assessment methodologies, since debris floods were not consid-ered in official hazard maps and urban planning regulations. But a month later, the temporary building restrictions were reformed to low strict level.
Different to Northwest Italy extensive floods of 1994, that led Italy to a new ap-proach to hazard planning and risk evaluation, Liguria 2010 / 2011 events did not to seemingly involve, bureaucracy and civil society on the new resilience concept and on the use of the emerging technologies and social media.
Conference Presentations by Massimo Lanfranco
| "Elena Rapisardi(1,2); Marco Giardino (1,2) and Massimo Lanfranco(2,3) (1) UNITO - Department of Earth Science(2) UNITO - NatRisk Interdipartimental Centre(3) UNITO - Doctoral School in Strategic Sciences."
total loss of lives in 5 years has been 26, while economic damage is estimated up to 2 billion
Euros. The whole region was hit at different times but the capital city, Genoa, was flooded twice
by the same catchment in 2011 and 2014, resulting in the loss of 7 lives.
In Genoa, the currently estimated flood return time of the main river (Bisagno Torrent) is just
thirty years because of the early 20th century urbanisation and the casing of the final part of the
catchment. The river casing was authorised along the whole Liguria region for "safety" reason
but the failure in estimating the correct maximum water discharge lead to recurrent floods.
Based on the existing data, the increase of floods in Ligurian basins can't be related to the
growing trend of rainfall (although this possibility does exist) but can certainly be linked to
multiplier factors as wild fires, ocean level rise, Mediterranean surface temperature increase and
urban sprawl.
Ligurian Basin Plans (natural risks master plans) don’t consider the sociotechnical dimension of
risk planning in much detail. The passive defence approach leads to the loss of social memory,
driving residents and local officials into a false sense of security. Moreover economic resources
were prioritized toward the "hard" flood protection system, leaving the "soft" part (preparedness,
evacuation plans and emergency response) with little funding. Scientific research was prioritized
similarly, resulting in little scientific support to policymakers on climate change impacts, early
warning systems, resilient urban planning and contingency planning.
Meanwhile “smart cities”, with a holistic approach to planning, are rising to global stage and
Genoa itself joined the mainstream but until now failed to support and reinforce disaster risk
reduction strategies.
This presentation will discuss the impact of bureaucracy and governance on the current and
future disaster scenarios and the possible enhanced action that could be provided by “smart
cities” when used as force multiplier.
approach for coping with crisis situation is a collaborative crisis management (CCM).
Thus to leverage a flow of information relevant for emergency managers and incident
commanders it is more than crucial to have a reliable and up-to-date information gathered from
credible sources.
A series of crisis management exercises conducted in Poland this year, in framework of FP7
project EDEN could be given as example of practical implementation of CCM.
The paper covers overall outcomes from lessons learned during designing, conducting and
evaluating a series of FP7 EDEN demonstrations in Poland. Each event had its specific
objectives and goals, thus all of them were generally driven by CBRNE hazard crisis situation
scenario. A series of three Virtual Facility (VF) workshops were held at the Main School of Fire
Service early this year.
They were focused on sharing of practical aspects in civil emergency planning process (nuclear
facility emergency scenario) and usage of selected EDEN tools supporting crisis managers.
Thus collaborative and interdisciplinary approach was implemented, enabling different actors to
understand, share and foresight their respective needs. One of most important issues was their
situational awareness in face of emergency radiation incident scenarios. Initial Field Exercise
(IFX) run by Astri Polska in April 2015 enabled the end users to examine specific issues
identified during VF workshops on basis of National Fire Service regional exercise framework.
Realistic CRBNE scenario, allowed sharing and merging data which were crucial for building of
common operational picture. Table Top Exercise (TTX) led by Space Research Centre PAS in
May 2015 was a combined staff training built upon scenarios related to VF workshops and IFX
exercise. One of aim of this exercise was to test and validate different sets of tools supporting
decision-making processes. Therefore, collaborative crisis management approach should be
seen as a way to integrate different actors and build enhanced
only be recognized by the recipient population, where the term locally exaggerates the nature of the hazard and its disaster frame. The creation and establishment of hazard-related terms driven by persistent mass media usage of, in this case, the “water bomb” also aids in focusing blame on those perceived as responsible for detonating, or failing the predict the impact point of, the ‘bomb.’ Instead, the event is an unpredictable, but common and locally severe natural hazard for which we can predict that there will be a ‘raid’; but we cannot say exactly where the bombs will burst. Unfortunately, our analysis of the French press indicates that the popularity and use of the word ‘bomb’ to describe an event, from terrorist to environmental, is widespread – it having been used 310 times across nine French newspapers during the month of January 2015 alone. It was associated with 17 different categories of information spanning food to weather. The community needs to think hard about the connotations of the new ‘bomb’ terminology, because while it makes scientists and forecasters easier to frame and blame; if has the danger of engendering a false feeling amongst the impacted population that warning can be issued and shelter sought by those responsible for their safety.
A window of opportunity opened to fulfill the disaster management cycle theory.
On October / November 2011, when a wider event struck both Tuscany and Ligu-ria regions causing 12 fatalities, the situation was, more or less, the same as the past year: the window of opportunity closed without a reduction in risk exposure.
After this last event Ligurian Region administration started to re-evaluate hazard mapping and risk assessment methodologies, since debris floods were not consid-ered in official hazard maps and urban planning regulations. But a month later, the temporary building restrictions were reformed to low strict level.
Different to Northwest Italy extensive floods of 1994, that led Italy to a new ap-proach to hazard planning and risk evaluation, Liguria 2010 / 2011 events did not to seemingly involve, bureaucracy and civil society on the new resilience concept and on the use of the emerging technologies and social media.
| "Elena Rapisardi(1,2); Marco Giardino (1,2) and Massimo Lanfranco(2,3) (1) UNITO - Department of Earth Science(2) UNITO - NatRisk Interdipartimental Centre(3) UNITO - Doctoral School in Strategic Sciences."
total loss of lives in 5 years has been 26, while economic damage is estimated up to 2 billion
Euros. The whole region was hit at different times but the capital city, Genoa, was flooded twice
by the same catchment in 2011 and 2014, resulting in the loss of 7 lives.
In Genoa, the currently estimated flood return time of the main river (Bisagno Torrent) is just
thirty years because of the early 20th century urbanisation and the casing of the final part of the
catchment. The river casing was authorised along the whole Liguria region for "safety" reason
but the failure in estimating the correct maximum water discharge lead to recurrent floods.
Based on the existing data, the increase of floods in Ligurian basins can't be related to the
growing trend of rainfall (although this possibility does exist) but can certainly be linked to
multiplier factors as wild fires, ocean level rise, Mediterranean surface temperature increase and
urban sprawl.
Ligurian Basin Plans (natural risks master plans) don’t consider the sociotechnical dimension of
risk planning in much detail. The passive defence approach leads to the loss of social memory,
driving residents and local officials into a false sense of security. Moreover economic resources
were prioritized toward the "hard" flood protection system, leaving the "soft" part (preparedness,
evacuation plans and emergency response) with little funding. Scientific research was prioritized
similarly, resulting in little scientific support to policymakers on climate change impacts, early
warning systems, resilient urban planning and contingency planning.
Meanwhile “smart cities”, with a holistic approach to planning, are rising to global stage and
Genoa itself joined the mainstream but until now failed to support and reinforce disaster risk
reduction strategies.
This presentation will discuss the impact of bureaucracy and governance on the current and
future disaster scenarios and the possible enhanced action that could be provided by “smart
cities” when used as force multiplier.
approach for coping with crisis situation is a collaborative crisis management (CCM).
Thus to leverage a flow of information relevant for emergency managers and incident
commanders it is more than crucial to have a reliable and up-to-date information gathered from
credible sources.
A series of crisis management exercises conducted in Poland this year, in framework of FP7
project EDEN could be given as example of practical implementation of CCM.
The paper covers overall outcomes from lessons learned during designing, conducting and
evaluating a series of FP7 EDEN demonstrations in Poland. Each event had its specific
objectives and goals, thus all of them were generally driven by CBRNE hazard crisis situation
scenario. A series of three Virtual Facility (VF) workshops were held at the Main School of Fire
Service early this year.
They were focused on sharing of practical aspects in civil emergency planning process (nuclear
facility emergency scenario) and usage of selected EDEN tools supporting crisis managers.
Thus collaborative and interdisciplinary approach was implemented, enabling different actors to
understand, share and foresight their respective needs. One of most important issues was their
situational awareness in face of emergency radiation incident scenarios. Initial Field Exercise
(IFX) run by Astri Polska in April 2015 enabled the end users to examine specific issues
identified during VF workshops on basis of National Fire Service regional exercise framework.
Realistic CRBNE scenario, allowed sharing and merging data which were crucial for building of
common operational picture. Table Top Exercise (TTX) led by Space Research Centre PAS in
May 2015 was a combined staff training built upon scenarios related to VF workshops and IFX
exercise. One of aim of this exercise was to test and validate different sets of tools supporting
decision-making processes. Therefore, collaborative crisis management approach should be
seen as a way to integrate different actors and build enhanced
are a “reality” to cope with, as they are part of our
environment. In the last 20 years the wider debate
on disasters preparedness and relief operations
underline that our culture should switch from
“war” against hazards to “preparedness” in order
to decrease the vulnerability of our societies
[Wisner et al., 1994]. In this perspective the key
word “resilience” fosters a wider cultural change
that should drive the risk & emergency management
towards a participatory dimension of all the key
players: scientific communities experts, civil
protection bodies, media, citizens, volunteers, civil
society. The aim is to “develop a network between
all civil protection actors and interested parties,
including the private sector; increasing the
knowledge of new prevention, preparedness and
response technologies available on the market;
and raise public awareness [3rd EU Civil
Protection Forum - Bruxelles, 2009]. This could be
interpreted as a call to switch from protection
(passive behaviour) to resilience, increasing the
user\citizens\local-bodies responsibility and
proactive behaviour.
since debris floods were not considered in official hazard maps and urban planning regulations. But a month later, the temporary building restrictions were reformed to low strict level. Different to Northwest Italy extensive floods of 1994, that led Italy to a new approach
to hazard planning and risk evaluation, Liguria 2010/2011 events did not to seemingly involve, bureaucracy and civil society on the new resilience concept and on the use of the emerging technologies and social media.