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Landslide Ischia: In the last 15 years, 15 hectares of soil have been consumed on the island of Ischia: on average, 10,000 m2 of new buildings per year

Nearly a third of this new land take is located in landslide-prone areas. In the image, the map of Casamicciola with data relating to soil consumption (on the left) and those relating to landslide hazard (on the right). All maps are available on the ISPRA EcoAtlante:  

ecoatlante.isprambiente.it 

Exploration of the underground world. The scientific challenge with darkness

In the era in which every corner of the planet's surface is observed by satellites, the underground environments are still a frontier of human exploration on the land. Although these ecosystems are isolated from the outside world, they have always attracted human curiosity, and only recently have they been the subject of studies that address the challenges and risks of these remote places to contribute to scientific progress.

ISPRA participates in the XXXIX Annual Anci Assembly

The XXXIX National Assembly, entitled “The voice of the country. The word to our communities”, will be held in Bergamo from 22 to 24 November 2022. It is an important appointment that involves Mayors, administrators and representatives of the institutional and business world in a focus of dialogue on the main issues of interest to the Municipalities .

The three days of work are accompanied by the ANCI EXPO review, an opportunity for the world of business and public administration to meet, for the growth and development of ambitious projects and solutions that increase the efficiency of municipalities and the well-being of citizens.

EcoAtl@nte, maps and data with a click

A new way to learn to "read" maps and data, to discover our territory. The project "At school for the environment with EcoAtl@nte, organized by ISPRA, offers a series of workshops aimed at high school students. The lessons, both theoretical and practical, will see the involvement of the participants through the use of a series of thematic maps contained in the new interactive platform created by ISPRA. A training course that helps to know and read territorial data, to understand the environmental challenges of our time.

ISPRA participates at the Science Festival of Rome

Pandemics, climate change and environmental crises demonstrate how much we need new outlooks on the present and new visions for the future. And, therefore, how much we need to explore, starting from what we know and opening up to what we don't know.

The Rome Science Festival is the ideal context to analyze the various themes, meet different people and disciplines, because it offers a rich variety of events.

In the seventeenth edition of the Festival we will talk about exploration in all areas of science, including new frontiers of art, photography, literature, with a curious look on all aspects of contemporaneity.

Regeneration and bioeconomy to protect the landscape and safeguard the agricultural soil of Rome

Starting from an in-depth study of current trends, the intention is to open a discussion on the path to quickly stop soil consumption in Rome. The goal is to propose regeneration alternatives, first of all preserving the Agro Romano, its extraordinary landscape and ecosystem services.
The participation of an ISPRA expert is expected with the intervention "The state of the soil in Italy and in Rome".

Intervention priority criteria in the Regional Reclamation Plans: start of the experimentation phase

On November 17 there will be a meeting of the Technical Roundtable, that include  15 Regions, 1 Autonomous Province and 13 ARPA. Thus begins the second phase of the activities to define the risk assessment criteria aimed at identifying the order of priority of the interventions in the Regional Plans for the Reclamation of Polluted Areas (PRB). In fact, the art. 199, paragraph 6, letter a) of Legislative Decree 152/06 assigns this task to ISPRA which has decided to share the work with the bodies involved in the matter: Regions/Autonomous Provinces and Agencies for the environmental protection.

The Table aims to test the flexibility of the methodology already identified in the first phase of the activities, presented in the workshop last May and illustrated in the Report Risk assessment criteria for priority setting of the remediation interventions (365/2022)

Copernicus: transforming data into value. The benefits for the public and private sectors

The webinar will be held on November 16 as part of the Maker Learn Festival 2022 event. The meeting will be an opportunity to talk about the Copernicus program and the enormous potential it offers in terms of job creation, innovation and growth, that is economic, social and environmental benefits.
Through a myriad of its applications, it is possible to have significant increases on the activities and operations, ordinary and extraordinary, of companies and organizations.

National Soil Hub. Comparing experiences for a national soil monitoring network

As part of the activities included by the European Joint Program on Soil (EJP Soil) and the national Soil HUB project, the meeting "National Soil Hub, Comparing experiences for a national soil monitoring network" will take place. The event, which will be dedicated exclusively to Stakeholders, is proposed as a moment of discussion and coordination for the construction of a national monitoring network to strengthen regional soil services.

Kick-off Meeting of the PNRR project "Monitoring Earth's Evolution and Tectonics - MEET

The Kick-off Meeting of the PNRR project "Monitoring Earth's Evolution and Tectonics - MEET" will start on November 15th.
ISPRA is Co-Proponent and partner of the project. Through the Work Package "Strengthening the national networks data production" ISPRA will consolidate and develop the Hydrogeochemical Platform of a continuous national hydrogeochemical network, while through the Work Package "Italian Platform for Solid Earth Science" ISPRA will develop this platform providing 3D geology data , of tectonics and faults capable of correlating with seismogenic sources.

The memory of the Territory as a guarantee of the future: The CARG Project

On Monday 14 November 2022 at 09:00 in Rome at the Wedekind Palace, the conference entitled 'The memory of the territory as a guarantee of the future: the CARG Project' dedicated to the need to complete and update the Geological Map of Italy will take place , fundamental and essential tool of knowledge of the territory, produced within the CARG Project.

ISPRA participates in Ecomondo 2022

Ecomondo is the reference event in Europe and the Mediterranean for technological and industrial innovation in the green and circular economy sector within the framework of the NGEU.
An international fair with an innovative format that unites in a single platform all sectors supporting the ecological transition: services and integrated solutions for the enhancement of waste into resources, integrated water cycle, land reclamation and regeneration, renewable energy, energy efficiency , mobility and green infrastructures, circular economy models and the safeguarding of natural resources for sustainable development.
The traditional performance in the presence of the event is enhanced by the innovative digital platform tool, already tested in the last edition, to multiply business and meeting opportunities.

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2022 Straits Earthquake Exercise

The exercise on seismic and tsunami risks takes place in Calabria and Sicily
From 4 to 6 November, the Calabria and Sicily regions are the protagonists of the exercise "Sisma dello Stretto 2022" which aims to test the operational response of the National Civil Protection Service to a seismic event, in a highly dangerous area. The coordination of the exercise is by the Department of Civil Protection, in agreement with the Regions involved and the Prefectures - UTG of Reggio Calabria and Messina. There are numerous components and operational structures that participate in the test, among these the Department's competence centers play a fundamental role for their activity of technical and scientific support to the activities.

The geology and human activities

In many areas of the earth's surface, seismic and volcanic events and geo-hydrological instability affect human activities and require a great effort from the community in activating risk prevention and mitigation actions. Applied geology provides scientific technical support to address and solve the problems connected to human-territory interaction both in relation to geological risks and to the effects induced by climatic variations.

Second National Conference on Backfill: technical and legal aspects of environmental relevance

Backfill material, understood as terrigenous material of non-natural origin that is present in the subsoil of vast Italian urban and industrial areas, has over time acquired a mainly legal profile that removes it from the waste regime and unites it to that of the soil. The legal framework was recently renewed in an attempt to clarify the legal situations and technical solutions to be adopted in terms of environmental protection and protection.

Second edition on City Conference on Agriculture

The Conference will bring together all the actors involved in the project to revive the agricultural vocation of the municipality of Rome, one of the largest in Europe. The rural heritage, in the years of ecological transition, must be valued to contribute to the economic growth of the city and provide a response to the ongoing climate crisis.
Faced with the challenges of our time for the circular economy, environmental protection and a more equitable society, agriculture plays a leading role in the evolution of the city.

Urban Geology Expert Group

From 24 to 26 October ISPRA - Department for the Geological Survey of Italy, will host the second half-yearly meeting of the Urban Geology Expert Group of Euro Geo Surveys, the European federation of geological services.

Urban geology is an emerging branch of earth sciences that studies urbanized contexts and their interactions with the subsoil on which they arise. Several projects are being carried out in this area by the various European geological services, ranging from three-dimensional modeling of the urban subsoil to communication activities aimed at increasing citizens' awareness of: both the problems that may arise from the subsoil and the resources that it can make available to cities, also with a view to mitigating and adapting to climate change.

In this context, ISPRA coordinates and manages the Urban Geo-Climate Footprint project, the peculiarities of which will be presented in a public event on the last day of the meeting, or 26 October.

80th Anniversary of the Urban Planning Law n.1150: From the city to the territory for the Ecological Transition

III Edition "The Mediterranean and Sustainable Development. Territory and Climate, Energy, Water, Food: from Emergencies to Integrated Ecological Development

The III Edition of the Mediterranean Events for the 2022 Sustainable Development Festival, whose purpose is to spread the culture of sustainability and bring about a cultural and political change that allows Italy to implement the United Nations 2030 Agenda and achieve the 17 Goals of sustainable development (SDGs), is dedicated to the emergencies that the post-pandemic and war events have made evident, namely Energy, Water, Food, Climate and Territory. Elements that from Emergencies can and must be the engines of the Ecological Transition, necessarily Integrated, of anthropization and strongly linked to the two cornerstones of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan - PNRR, i.e. digitization and greenery, key points of the scientific and institutional reference or the EU Green Deal.

Relationship between remediation and containment of land consumption in the context of urban regeneration

In line with its aims and in continuity with the study of reclamation as a function of the remediation and recovery of degraded areas and contaminated sites, the Research Center for Environmental Remediation and Recovery of degraded areas and contaminated sites pays particular attention to the analysis how the reclamations themselves relate, in regulatory and technical terms, with the issues of containing land consumption and urban regeneration.

International day for disaster risk reduction

The International day for natural disaster risk reduction will be celebrate the 13th October. The day was created for the will of the General Assembly of UN in 1989. The target of that day is to send a  signal to the Governments of all the World, to the international organization and the global population, to make aware about the major frequency and consistency in which natural disasters happens.

ISPRA: "Italy is a country with hydrogeological risk, reducing it means acting on four fronts: knowledge, awareness, preparation, interventions".

Watch the video produced by ISPRA

International day for disaster risk reduction 2022. Starts in Rome the project PNRR GeoSciences IR

Officially today started in Rome the project GeologiciSciences IR, funded by MUR with the mission 4 of the PNRR which will realize an infrastructure for the Italian Network of Geological Service. This tool will provide data and services needed to carry out the monitoring and control functions of the territories in the different sector of Earth Sciences.
Coordinated by ISPRA and which 16 partner participate (13 Universities and 3 Body Research) GeoSciences IR will focus on 12 priority topics: mining activities, soil protection, land use and consumption, sinkholes, landslides, active tectonics, geological heritage, marine geology, Copernicus and operational geology services, 3D geological modeling, geological and geothematic cartography, databases, metadata and services.
The work, started the 1st October 2022, should last 30 months and at the end the infrastructure will must be operative for at least 10 years.

New geographies: cities, territories and public policies in the ecological transition

The initiative interrogates the scientific communities and technical structures that produce descriptions and information on a territorial scale with the aim of building the capacity to work on the network, sharing data and information and cooperating in the definition of production and interoperability standards and in the construction of centers for sharing elaborations and interpretations.

50 years lost, how is the soil?

The first part of the event reminds us that 2022 is a special year: 50 years have passed since the 1972 UN Conference in Stockholm, where the economic and environmental dimensions were first connected; 50 years have passed since the publication of the famous report "Limits to growth" of the Club of Rome; 30 years have passed since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit; the world is halfway to achieving the 2030 Agenda Goals set in 2015. The panel aims to show the unsustainability of an economic model that continues to guide the action of governments around the world, despite being at least 50 years that the consequences dictated by business as usual are known.
In the second part of the event the issue of soil degradation will be addressed.

CARG project: natural risk prevention tool

The purpose of the event is to highlight the importance of the CARG Project as it represents a sophisticated research infrastructure,
strategic for Italy. In particular to pursue eco-sustainable development and conscious planning of the territory, for the mitigation, reduction and prevention of natural risks (seismic, hydrogeological, volcanic and geochemical), for the protection of the environment and for the management of georesources, starting from water ones.

Graduate school for the survey of continental Quaternary deposits

The school, organized by the Italian Association for the Study of the Quaternary (AIQUA) and ISPRA) with the collaboration of the Regional Natural Park of the Simbruini Mountains, with the patronage of the National Scientific Committee of the CAI, aims to provide an update on the geological survey. of quaternary units in the context of national geological cartography (CARG project). It also provides educational excursions in the area and lessons at the Porta del Parco, in Subiaco. The lectures will be held by university professors and researchers from research Institutes.

Environmental geology at the service of the Country

Celebration of the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the Italian Society of Environmental Geology (SIGEA) - Aps

ISPRA is sponsoring and participating in the conference "Environmental geology at the service of the Country" promoted by SIGEA Asp, the association founded in 1992 by a group of academics, professionals, public officials for the promotion of the role of Earth Sciences with the target of protecting the health and safety of the territory

X edition of the Week of Planet Earth - Excursion "The Saline di Tarquinia: a treasure of geodiversity and biodiversity"

As part of the 10th edition of the Planet Earth Week (2-9 October 2022) ISPRA will organize, in cooperation with the Carabinieri of the Biodiversity Protection Unit of Rome, the excursion "The Saline di Tarquinia: a treasure of geodiversity and biodiversity".

Treccani Festival of the Italian language

The 5th edition of the Treccani Festival of the Italian language takes place in Lecco from 7 to 9 October, with a series of thematic meetings, workshops, shows and educational workshops, which will focus on the importance of the word as a means of expression and sharing

The use and consumption of land of Roma Capitale

Land cover analysis in the territory of Rome - 2021 Report
The UO of Statistics - Open Data, Digital Transformation Department of Roma Capitale in collaboration with ISPRA organizes the conference "The use and consumption of land of Rome Capital" on 5 October. The 2021 Report "Analysis of the soil cover in the territory of Rome" will be presented.

Training Workshop 2022 - The Earth seen from the sky: methodological and application aspects of the InSAR technique for the analysis of ground motion

The 2022 Workshop takes up the 2021 theme oriented to information on operational ground motion services based on satellite interferometry. The aim of this edition is to provide administrators and professionals with the operational elements to correctly interpret the products of the InSAR technique in relation to the monitoring and remediation of territorial instability.