From 26 to 30 September the multidisciplinary training to manage disasters and reduce the risks of natural disasters promoted by REDI will start in Camerino
Floods, increasingly frequent heat waves, fires, earthquakes, and even health emergencies such as Covid-19, which has resulted in a pandemic and is still not entirely over. The list of dangers listed above is not exhaustive, but represents at least in part the map of the Italian risk. But is there a way to prevent or manage these dangers in a coordinated, cohesive and timely manner? And what can academic research do? The group of scientists and researchers who have given life to REDI (English acronym for Reducing Risks of natural DIsasters) have tried to answer these questions, a research, innovation and training center whose mission is to contribute to the development of interdisciplinary approaches to improve disaster preparedness and response by communities, decreasing the time for recovery and recovery.
For the first time, REDI proposes an innovative and multidisciplinary school that will bring together around twenty students and as many professors and experts in Camerino (Macerata) from 26 to 30 September.
The multidisciplinary training will be a true "gym" for doctoral students and researchers, aiming to train new minds capable of better managing potentially very damaging situations. The program and the school were developed by the founders of the REDI consortium – theIstituto nazionale di geofisica e vulcanologia, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, the Gran Sasso Science Institute, and the University of Camerino (home of the school)—in collaboration with the Bank of Italy. Numerous topics will be addressed through seminars, case studies, and workshops. These include the hazards of natural events; the vulnerability of buildings, infrastructure, and historical and artistic heritage; as well as disaster risk assessment and socioeconomic consequences and post-event reconstruction. This horizontal fusion of disciplines encompasses engineering, urban and regional planning, earth sciences, life sciences, environmental sciences, health sciences, and even social and economic disciplines.
"The seismic events of 2016 dramatically affected the Apennine territory of central Italy already characterized by demographic and economic dynamics that were causing its rapid abandonment – adds Graziano Leoni, full professor of Construction Techniques, Deputy Rector of UNICAM and member of the REDI organizing committee, – TKeeping this school in Camerino means entering a significant case study, in which the dangerousness of the site, the fragility of the built heritage and its inestimable historical-landscape value determine a condition of extremely high risk”.
"Italy is one of the European countries most affected by a varied series of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods or tornadoes – explains Marco Modica, associate professor in Applied Economics at GSSI and member of the REDI organizing committee – in disaster management, however, the lack of an integrated and multidisciplinary vision necessarily reverberates on the ability to face risks, and this necessarily increases the harmful potential of these extreme events, as the recent pandemic crisis has demonstrated in the health sector . The goal of the training school is therefore to fill this gap in order to give a global vision of all risk management, integrating information and knowledge of disciplines that are also very distant from each other".
"Students will have the opportunity to approach disciplines and topics that are rarely part of the specialist training of the individual doctoral discipline, or to expand the field of knowledge of their research activity. The teachers will bring their own knowledge and experience, including those made on the field in the field of emergency management, risk communication and post-earthquake reconstruction of 2016", concludes Lucia Luzi, director of the INGV section of Milan and coordinator of the REDI school.
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REDI: http://www.redi-research.eu/it/homepage/
Image - From 26 to 30 September, in Camerino (Macerata), REDI proposes an innovative and multidisciplinary school that will bring together around twenty students and as many professors and experts.