TECHNIQUES FOR HYDROLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT IN CIVIL PROTECTION PLANNING

F. Cipolla & C. Sebastiani
SGA, V.le Cataldi Bombrini 2/3a, 16145, Genova, Italy



Emergency planning represents an essential tool for an effective management with regard to hydrological risk. Through a careful analysis of dangerous conditions a set of possible scenarious was prepared. Scenarious are used to organised the assistance activities and to make previsional system work. Unfortunately, at present, in Italy techniques for hydrological risk evaluation that can be applied in civil protection plannig are not consolidated. Starting from a real civil protection plan a standard procedure, limited to particularly urban conditions, was prepared. The Plan focus on strategies for using physical, social and economical parameters to identify the best strategy in order to minimize the expected damage. The study provides the opportunity to test new procedures for the production of emergency plans and operational sequences that have to be managed by local authorities before, during and after the event. The example provides guidelines to be used in the given urban condition.