Events and News

The hydrogeological instability. Technical aspects and socio-economic effects

The conference is the first of a cycle of events that will concern the analysis, monitoring and mitigation of hydrogeological instability with a focus on landslides, floods and urban flooding.

NET scientific aperitif - Our green gold: urban forests in the city of the future?

Cities are where business is concentrated and half of the world's population lives with further growth prospects. Urban areas therefore have a high impact on environmental quality. Solutions based on the functioning of ecosystems are a tool for sustainable land management, to address in an integrated way the environmental and social problems caused by global and climatic changes in progress. By assessing the impact of land consumption on ecosystem services provided by vegetation, the problems and solutions that the synergy between research and active citizenship can find to future challenges will be analyzed.

INHIGEO 2021 Conference

The 46th Conference of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO), due to the Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic, will be held online by the Polish Geological Institute.

Presentation of the Report "Soil consumption, territorial dynamics and ecosystem services. Edition 2021"

Next 14 July will be presented the SNPA report "Soil consumption, territorial dynamics and ecosystem services. Edition 2021" After the presentation of the report, a video survey on land consumption will be shown at 12.00, carried out by ISPRA, as part of the European project Soil4Life.

SNPA web site

Programme of report presentation

Press conference (ita) 

Programme of the press conference

Report; Main data at regional, provincial and municipalities level and fact-sheet on regional data 

Visualize the cartography and the main data

Download the cartography and the complete data

Streaming live of the report presentation time 10.30  on channel Youtube ISPRA and www.ricicla.tv

Streaming live press conference time 12 sul channel Youtube ISPRA

Environmental statistics for cohesion policies 2014-2020

Since May 2018 ISPRA has been a beneficiary of the project aimed at expanding the set of territorial indicators today released by public statistics on the environment, satisfying on the one hand the new international information requests (for example SDG indicators )and at the same time aligning the availability of data and indicators to the information needs of policy makers.

City' Scape: City_Brand&Tourism Landscape

the International Symposium City 'Scape: City_Brand & Tourism Landscape aims to reflect on the future of the urban landscape in search of best practices to promote, in the field of Landscape Architecture, effective design strategies capable of attributing new ethical, economic and social values ​​to territories.

From soil degradation to soil recovery

On June 17, the Research Unit on Desertification of the University of Sassari organizes an online webinar in two sessions on the occasion of the World Day for the Fight against Desertification. The first, entitled From degradation to soil recovery, to analyze with experts the point on the remediation of industrial and mining areas

Desertification and Drought Day 2021

The theme chosen this year for Desertification and Drought Day, in analogy with the start of the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration, will focus on the transformation of degraded land, which guarantees economic resilience, creates jobs, increases income and food security, helps restore biodiversity, stores carbon, slows down climate change and reduces its impacts, and supports green recovery from the pandemic.

XIII edition of Mines National Day

The National Day of Mines, promoted to spread the value and cultural significance of geological tourism, has achivied its thirteenth edition this year, registering an increase interest throughout the whole national territory.

What future for urban landscapes? Challenges and perspectives

The Italian Society of Landscape Ecology is organizing a series of online seminars. An ISPRA expert will participate in the meeting "Innovative approaches for urban landscape management" on 27 May.

A new tool from the research to address land consumption

LANDSUPPORT Technical dissemination workshop

In the framework of the Horizon2020 project LANDSUPPORT  a new innovative system has been developed to support sustainable agriculture and forestry, evaluate trade-off between land uses and contribute to the development and implementation of land use policies in Italy and Europe.
It is a smart Geospatial CyberInfrastructure designed to support the decisions of administrations, urban planners and local communities and to raise awareness of this serious threat of degradation in Italy.
The LANDSUPPORT platform is web-based and open-access, freely usable to support sustainable management of land resources with the aim to stop land consumption.

Public consultation on SNPA guidelines for landslide monitoring

It's open from 18 may the public consultation on the SNPA guidelines for landslide monitoring

Italian technological innovation in anti-seismic construction

Focus on ongoing post-earthquake reconstruction
Earth Tech Expo will be held in Florence from 13 to 16 October 2021. The first Expo of the "digital and ecological transition" to expose the Italian technological leadership with exhibitions, conferences, presentations, links, all the news from the Italian Space Agency, research bodies, universities, companies and companies, spin offs, start-ups, regions and local authorities in all sectors.

Cooperation agreement between ISPRA, SIGEA, Majella Global UNESCO Geopark and Superintendence of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Chieti and Pescara

Launched the cooperation agreement between ISPRA, SIGEA, Majella Global UNESCO Geopark and Superintendence of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Chieti and Pescara aimed at the census, in-depth study and dissemination of knowledge related to the sites of geological memory present in the Abruzzo region.

Signed agreement between ISPRA and the municipality of Bracciano

The agreement will have as its object the study and census of the underground cavities of artificial origin below the historic center of Bracciano.

Online Geonews 2/2021

The second number 2021 of the newsletter of the Geological Survey of Italy is available online.

World Earth Day: the importance of the soil!

ISPRA, in the whole of the project Soil4life and in occasion of the World Earth Day, produced a video on the connection between soil and climate change. 
The exploitation of the soil disrupts the natural balance of the Earth and causes the loss of ecosystem services. Overbuilding over the last 7 years has prevented the soil from storing over 2 million tons of carbon. And losing ecosystem services means seeing an increase in natural phenomena (floods, heat islands, climate change) both in economic terms.

Contaminated Sites. The characterization and remediation procedures in light of Legislative Decree no. 76 of 16 June 2020

The remediation of contaminated sites is ruled by Italian law in Title V to Part IV of Legislative Decree no. 3 April 2006 no. 152. Alongside the initial legislation, there are various interventions by the legislator that have disciplined and regulated particular cases.

Environment and health in the contaminated sites. From the scientific research to the decisions

On 13 April it will be presented the book "Environment and health in the contaminated sites" which include the results of a multidisciplinary research dedicated to the effects on the ecosystem and population of the phenomena of environmental degradation produced by human activities.

Civil Protection: with RETRACE-3D three-dimensional geological reconstruction of the area hit by the earthquake in central Italy

A 3D model of the volume of the earth's crust in which was produced the Amatrice earthquake of 24 August 2016 and the subsequent seismic sequence: this is one of the results of the RETRACE-3D project (central italy EarThquakes integRAted Crustal model; www.retrace3d.it), a work carried out by the Department of Civil Protection together with the research institutes CNR-IGAG, CNR-IREA, INGV and ISPRA for the development of original products that represent an innovative point of view on the seismic area of ​​the Central Apennines.

Online the summary sheet of the CARG Project, the Geological Cartography project at a scale of 1: 50,000

The document proposes the strategic lines of the activities implemented by the CARG Service, its progress, the partners, the public and the tools, including the Database, which citizens can use to consult the data and the geological sheets.

Ecological transition and soil consumption. The Soil4life project

The ecological transition includes also the natural resources protection and their restoration in degraded areas. That means to stop the consumption of soil and the re-naturalization of unused waterproofed areas.

Learn the subsoil: methods and applications the sustainable development

Avalaible the streaming of the workshop: "Geological modeling 3D".
The improvement of the geological knowledge of the subsoil allows to support the evaluation and correct management of strategic resources for the society, the correct and safe design of infrastructures, planning in urban areas, the best knowledge of important geological hazards.

Earth Tecnology Expo

Geo-spatial observation of the Earth. Satellites, scientific instruments and technologies made in Italy in orbit for the control of the territory and the reduction of natural risks.

Journey to mining Italy

Today 4 March at 18:00  streaming live on the Facebook pages of ReMi, Fondazione ISEC e Musil (Musil Brescia - Sistema Museale dell'Industria e del Lavoro di Brescia) the Network coordinator ReMi- ISPRA will present “Journey to mining Italy", the luxurious volume totally dedicated to parks and mining museum reconverted and enhanced.

Workshop "State of remediation of contaminated sites: a look at the regional sites"

First Report ISPRA-SNPA on the state of remediation at regional level, as a results of the cooperation between SNPA and Regions/Autonomous Provinces. What is the state of remediation in Italy on the sites of regional competence? How many contaminated and restored sites are there? Are there good practices?
The first report about the remediation of regional sites is the result of the joint activities of the SNPA and the Regions and Autonomous Provinces, which provides an overview of the information data available. The Report aims to support decisions in the management of contaminated sites.

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4th Conference of the Italian Marine Geologists

The 4th Conference of Italian Marine Geologists will take place on 25 and 26 February under the aegis of the Italian Geological Society, CNR, INGV, OGS, ConISMa and ISPRA. The aim is to bring together all researchers active in the field of marine geosciences in a discussion informal and open to all.

Caring for soil is caring for life

On the 24 Febraury in the frame of Horizon Europe activities, the Italian Ministry University and Research in cooperation with Santa Chiara Lab - University of Siena, APRE and Re Soil foundation is organizing the event: "Caring for soil is caring for life".

Land consumption of Roma Capitale Municipality

Land cover analysis in the territory of Rome. Report 2020
The report, which contains the results of the study carried out in cooperation with ISPRA and the Universal Civil Service, aims to provide useful tools for decision makers in the perspective of sustainable urban development. Specifically, the 2020 update reports a detailed analysis of the land cover in the Municipality of Rome, with a complete mapping of the territory and the reconstruction of the historical series of recent years.

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Brochure

Report

Land and rocks from excavation – D.P.R. 120/2017

The Order of Geologists of Campania will organize the webinar "Lands and Rocks from excavation - D.P.R. 120/2017" on February 12. ISPRA experts are participating.