Assessing and Improving Flood and Landslide Community Social Awareness and Engagement via a Web Platform: The Case of Italy

Daniele F. Bignami; Alessio Dragoni; Giovanni Menduni

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Daniele F. Bignami, Alessio Dragoni, Giovanni Menduni. Assessing and Improving Flood and Landslide Community Social Awareness and Engagement via a Web Platform: The Case of Italy[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2018, 6(4): 530-540. doi: 10.1007/s13753-018-0199-0

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Daniele F. Bignami, Alessio Dragoni, Giovanni Menduni. Assessing and Improving Flood and Landslide Community Social Awareness and Engagement via a Web Platform: The Case of Italy[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2018, 6(4): 530-540. doi: 10.1007/s13753-018-0199-0

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Daniele F. Bignami, Alessio Dragoni, Giovanni Menduni. Assessing and Improving Flood and Landslide Community Social Awareness and Engagement via a Web Platform: The Case of Italy[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2018, 6(4): 530-540. doi: 10.1007/s13753-018-0199-0

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Assessing and Improving Flood and Landslide Community Social Awareness and Engagement via a Web Platform: The Case of Italy

doi: 10.1007/s13753-018-0199-0

1 Project Development Department, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy;
2 SciamLab S. r. l, 00193 Rome, Italy;
3 Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy

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The work presented in this article is supported by AGID, the Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale (Agency for Digital Italy). Many of the input data used in the work are provided by the Italian ISPRA, the Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (Institute for Environmental Protection and Research). Data are also provided by the Dipartimento della Protezione Civile (Civil Protection Department) and the Dipartimento per le Politiche di Coesione (Cohesion Policy Department) of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic, and by the Agenzia per la Coesione Territoriale (Territorial Cohesion Agency) of the Italian government. The institutional coordination of the work has been possible mainly thanks to the support afforded by the Struttura di Missione Contro il Dissesto Idrogeologico e per lo Sviluppo delle Infrastrutture Idriche (Special Office for Hydrogeological Disaster Prevention), and the collaboration of the Ministry for the Environment and Land and Sea, and of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport of the Italian government. The authors are grateful to all the colleagues of the above-mentioned bodies for their constant and valuable assistance.

Available Online: 2021-04-26

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Italy is significantly affected by ever-present flood and landslide risks and has experienced many disasters. Local social awareness and engagement, however, differ and need to be increased by decision makers and citizens through improvements in risk preparedness. With this aim, the #italiasicura web platform was developed by Fondazione Politecnico di Milano and released in 2015 to show country to local level hazard maps and risk reduction projects in Italy. Any stage of the user experience with the platform can be shared via social media. Using this tool, an awareness-oriented web analytics process was structured to develop a set of indicators for the increase of knowledge linked to flood and landslide hazards. In so doing, it is possible to measure community disaster awareness actions and competence in the area of hazard knowledge. This article presents the results obtained by using data from the platform.
- Community disaster risk awareness,
- Disaster risk reduction,
- Hazard knowledge indicators,
- Italy,
- Risk reduction Web platform

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