Giulia Dotta

University of Florence | UNIFI · Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra

Landslide risk in Italy is one of the highest worldwide. The strategy to face this problem largely relies on early warning systems. A national early warning system based on weather forecast is regulated by a national law, although each of the twenty regions composing Italy has a high degree of autonomy. For example, in Emilia-Romagna Region, rainfa...

Risk communication is a mutual process of understanding the risk among stakeholders and represents a measure to integrate lay knowledge into measures to prevent, mitigate, and deal with risk. Flood crisis communication, which takes place in the face of incoming danger, needs a practical and operative approach to cope with potentially destructive, l...

The shipwreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which ran aground on 13 January 2012 on the northwestern coast of Giglio Island (Italy), required continuous monitoring of the position and movement of the vessel to guarantee the security of workers and rescuers operating around and within the wreck and to support shipwreck removal operations. Furt...

On October 24th 2015, following a period of heavy rainfall, a landslide triggered in the Calatabiano Municipality (Sicily Island, Southern Italy) causing the rupture of a water pipeline transect of the aqueduct supplying water to the city of Messina. This event, caused critical water shortages for several days to a large part of the city inhabitant...

Landslides represent one of the most frequent geo-hazard, not only causing a serious threat to human lives, but also determining socio-economic losses, countable in billions of Euros and expressed in terms of damage to property, infrastructures and environmental degradation. Recent events show a significant increase in the number of disasters with...

On 24 October 2015, following a period of heavy rainfall, a landslide occurred in the Calatabiano Municipality (Sicily Island, Southern Italy), causing the rupture of a water pipeline supplying water to the city of Messina. Following this event, approximately 250,000 inhabitants of the city suffered critical water shortages for several days. Conseq...

On January 13 th 2012, the cruise ship Costa Concordia was stranded in front of Punta Gabbianara, in the NorthWestern coast of Giglio Island (Tuscany, Italy). To support the Search and Rescue (SaR) and removal operations, a sophisticated monitoring system was implemented. The Terrestrial Laser Scanner device was integrated in a ground-based monitor...