From 17 to 19 September, the three-day event organized by INGV to discuss prevention and protection measures against the risks of extreme events
Extreme natural events, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, climatic excesses have an increasingly dramatic impact on people's lives, local economies and our extraordinary cultural heritage.
Italy has significant levels of danger from potentially calamitous events, but the size and severity of the losses depend on the vulnerability of the inhabited area: non-seismic-resistant building construction, uncontrolled construction on the slopes of volcanoes, overbuilding of river beds, etc. Many losses are due to lack of knowledge of risks and prevention.
The conference "Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Clouds: from forgotten vulnerability to a culture of safety", which will be held from 17 to 19 September in Ischia, aims to give an effective response to future calamitous events, both in terms of prevention and education new culture of risks and therefore of safety.
"To fill this lack of knowledge, not only with the memory of natural disasters, which have historically affected the island, but also through the study and debate on the most current prevention and protection measures against the risks of extreme events," says Graziano Ferrari, co-organizer of the initiative and INGV research manager, "is the first step to take".
On 17 September, the opening day of the conference, organized by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), will be entirely dedicated to forgotten vulnerability, through the extreme natural events that have affected the island and the history of science in response to them .
Speakers will be experts in the seismic, volcanic and meteorological history of Italy and in particular of the island of Ischia. Among these, the Director of the INGV Vesuvius Observatory, Francesca Bianco, the President of CREA, Salvatore Parlato and local and regional administrators.
September 18 will be the turn of the culture of safety: the answers of today's science, the open questions and the challenges for tomorrow's science. The topics addressed will be geology, seismology, volcanology and seismic engineering. On this occasion, the main scientific products aimed at estimating hazards, created by the scientific world and supported by the Civil Protection Department (DPC), will also be presented.
Towards a more resilient society will be the theme of the last day, 19 September, dedicated to society, to the resilience of the territory, to people. In particular, the relationship between science, institutions and society for a safer and more resilient community.
A round table between representatives of the scientific world, journalists, local administrators, representatives of the National, regional and local Civil Protection, as well as scholars who have historically dealt with the geology and geodynamics of the island. This session was opened by the President of INGV Carlo Doglioni.
“September 19 will mark the ninetieth anniversary of the death of Giulio Grablovitz”, adds Ferrari, “an eclectic scientist who at the turn of the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries designed and directed the geodynamic and meteorological observatories of Casamicciola and Ischia Porto and where he conducted some of the most innovative scientific experiences of his time. Experiences that brought the observers to the attention of the most important seismologists of the time”.
The final event will be dedicated to him. Paolo Capuano, great-grandson of Grablovitz, together with Ferrari, will tell pieces of scientific and personal life, as well as some anecdotes, of this great scientist and man.
Image taken from the program of the initiative