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

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 we...

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Published in:International journal of disaster risk science 2018-12, Vol.9 (4), p.530-540
Main Authors: Bignami, Daniele F., Dragoni, Alessio, Menduni, Giovanni
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analytics
Climate Change
Community disaster risk awareness
Decision making
Digital media
Disaster management
Disaster risk reduction
Disasters
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Emergency preparedness
Environment
Environmental risk
Floods
Geological hazards
Hazard knowledge indicators
Hazards
Italy
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
Landslides
Landslides & mudslides
Natural Hazards
Risk management
Risk reduction
Risk reduction Web platform
Social aspects
Social media
Social networks
Sustainable Development
Technology application
Web sites (World Wide Web)
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2095-0055
2192-6395
DOI:10.1007/s13753-018-0199-0