Combining historical and geological data for the assessment of the landslide hazard: a case study from Campania, Italy

Calcaterra, Domenico; Parise, Mario; Palma, Biagio

doi:10.5194/nhess-3-3-2003

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“…The study area of this paper is situated in Campania, in the Southern Apennines of Italy, a region which in recent decades has been affected by severe flash floods with serious damage and fatalities (Calcaterra et al, 2000(Calcaterra et al, , 2003Santo et al, 2002Santo et al, , 2012Santo et al, , 2015Del Prete and Mele, 2006;Santangelo et al, 2006Santangelo et al, , 2011Santangelo et al, , 2012Chirico et al, 2012;Alessio et al, 2013). The focus of the study consisted of small catch- ments with intermittent flow, generally occurring during and after heavy rainstorms, which can be hydrologically defined as SMCs.…”

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A database on flash flood events in Campania, southern Italy, with an evaluation of their spatial and temporal distribution

Vennari

Parise

Santangelo

et al. 2016

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. This study presents an historical database of flash flood events in the Campania region of southern Italy. The study focuses on small catchments characterized by intermittent flow, generally occurring during and after heavy rainstorms, which can be hydrologically defined as small Mediterranean catchments. As the outlet zones of these catchments (consisting mainly of alluvial fans or fan deltas) are highly urbanized in Campania, the population living in the delivery areas is exposed to high risk. Detailed scrutiny and critical analysis of the existing literature, and of the data inventory available, allowed us to build a robust database consisting of about 500 events from 1540 to 2015, which is continuously updated. Since this study is the first step of a longer project to perform a hazard analysis, information about time and site of occurrence is known for all events. As for the hazard analysis envisaged, collecting information about past events could provide information on future events, in terms of damage and also spatial and temporal occurrence. After introducing the issue of flash floods in Italy we then describe the geological and geomorphological settings of the study area. The database is then presented, illustrating the methodology used in collecting information and its general structure. The collected data are then discussed and the statistical data analysis presented.

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A database on flash flood events in Campania, southern Italy, with an evaluation of their spatial and temporal distribution

Vennari

Parise

Santangelo

et al. 2016

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…As widely reported in literature [28][29][30][31][32], Campania region is very unstable in terms of the Earth's surface deformations. Intense urbanization, active volcanoes, complicated fault systems, landslides, subsidence, and hydrological instability (flooding) are the characteristics of this region [28][29][30][31][32]. 246 out of 652 sinkholes (38%) of the entire Italy are located in Campania region itself [31].…”

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Railways’ Stability Observation by Satellite Radar Images

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Riccio³

et al. 2018

Modern Railway Engineering

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Remote sensing has many vital civilian applications. Space-borne Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar has been used to measure the Earth's surface deformation widely. In particular, Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) is designed to estimate the temporal characteristics of the Earth's deformation rates from multiple InSAR images acquired over time. This chapter reviews the space-borne Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar techniques that have shown their capabilities in monitoring of railways displacements. After description of the current state of the art and potentials of the available radar remote sensing techniques, one case study is examined, pertaining to a railway bridge in the Campania region, Italy.

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“…Case histories are used to understand the interaction of landslide activity and land use practices including mitigation measures (Calcaterra et al 2003;Klose et al 2016). Although case histories are limited to a local area by design, they can be used in the area of the Upper Weser to differentiate landslide mitigation over time in order to identify local construction patterns.…”

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Case Histories for the Investigation of Landslide Repair and Mitigation Measures in NW Germany

Wohlers

Kreuzer

Damm

2017

Advancing Culture of Living With Landslides

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To understand the complex interactions between landslide risk, public and private risk awareness, including land use practices and repair and mitigation measures in a complete manner, case histories were developed and analyzed using the example of the highway network of the Lower Saxon Uplands, NW Germany. The case histories utilize datasets extracted from the German landslide database that includes information of historical and current landslide impacts, elements at risk as well as land use practices and provide an overview of spatio-temporal changes in the exposure and vulnerability to landslide hazards over the past 250 years. For the developed case histories the recorded landslide events were categorized and classified at representative sites, according to landslide types, processes, and damages as well as applied repair and mitigation measures. In a further step, data of recent landslides are compared with historical and modern mitigation measures and are correlated with concepts of risk management. As a result, it is possible to identify some complex interactions between landslide hazard, hazard awareness and damage impact. The case histories show that especially since the last 20 years public risk awareness rose due to an apparent increase in landslide frequency and magnitude at some sites. Before the 1990s landslide mitigation measures were mainly low cost prevention measures such as the removal of loose rock and vegetation, rock blasting, catch barriers, and temporal or perpetual traffic lane closure. Recently there is a shift towards the implementation of expensive mitigation measures in order to minimize landslide occurrence. Local decision makers increasingly invest in expensive long-term stabilization projects like soil anchoring, rock nailing, and steel-reinforced concrete walls.

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Combining historical and geological data for the assessment of the landslide hazard: a case study from Campania, Italy

Cited by 67 publications

References 17 publications

A database on flash flood events in Campania, southern Italy, with an evaluation of their spatial and temporal distribution

A database on flash flood events in Campania, southern Italy, with an evaluation of their spatial and temporal distribution

Railways’ Stability Observation by Satellite Radar Images

Case Histories for the Investigation of Landslide Repair and Mitigation Measures in NW Germany

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