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‘Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice‘ • 24-28 August 2014 • Davos • Switzerland
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Resilience and land use planning on
the provincial territory of Potenza
Alessandro Attolico
Executive director of the Territorial Planning and Civil Protection Office
Advocate and Local Focal Point for the UNISDR “Making Cities Resilient” Campaign
Province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy

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Area of interest

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Area of interest
• Province of Potenza
REGION: Basilicata (580.000 inh)
It counts 2 Provinces: Potenza and
Matera
PROVINCE OF POTENZA:
- AREA: 6.500 sqkm
- POPULATION: 378.000 inh
- POP. DENSITY: 60 inh/sqkm
- MUNICIPALITIES: 100
- CAPITAL CITY: Potenza (67.000 inh)

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Area of interest
• Population distribution and variation
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5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
30,000
35,000
40,000
45,000
50,000
55,000
60,000
65,000
70,000
Potenza
Melfi
Lavello
RioneroinVulture
Lauria
Venosa
Avigliano
Tito
Senise
Pignola
Sant'Arcangelo
Picerno
GenzanodiLucania
Lagonegro
MuroLucano
Marsicovetere
Bella
Maratea
PalazzoSanGervasio
Latronico
Rapolla
MarsicoNuovo
FrancavillainSinni
Pietragalla
Moliterno
Brienza
Atella
OppidoLucano
Ruoti
Rotonda
Paterno
Tolve
SanFele
Tramutola
Viggianello
Viggiano
Filiano
VietridiPotenza
Barile
Rivello
Baragiano
CorletoPerticara
Acerenza
SatrianodiLucania
Trecchina
Forenza
CastelluccioInferiore
VaglioBasilicata
Pescopagano
Chiaromonte
Calvello
Laurenzana
Balvano
Anzi
Ripacandida
Maschito
Montemilone
GrumentoNova
SanSeverinoLucano
Roccanova
Abriola
Spinoso
Nemoli
Castelsaraceno
SanChiricoNuovo
AlbanodiLucania
Episcopia
Sant'AngeloLeFratte
Banzi
Cancellara
Sarconi
TerranovadiPollino
Montemurro
SanChiricoRaparo
SavoiadiLucania
CastronuovodiSant'Andrea
Pietrapertosa
RuvodelMonte
Castelgrande
Rapone
Noepoli
BrindisiMontagna
Gallicchio
CastelluccioSuperiore
Castelmezzano
Campomaggiore
SassodiCastalda
SanMartinod'Agri
SanCostantinoAlbanese
Ginestra
Cersosimo
Trivigno
Carbone
Armento
Teana
Fardella
GuardiaPerticara
Missanello
Calvera
SanPaoloAlbanese
Population(2013)
Municipalities
MEAN: 3.800
2001-2013 Variation

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Main risks (part 1)
The Province of Potenza territory is affected by many natural
risks:
- Earthquakes
- Landslides
- Floods (hydraulic network system and dams)
- Drought/Desertification
- Wild Fires
- Cold/Heat Waves
- … Climate Change

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Seismic Risk
Seismic Hazard classification
The Italian seismic classification foresees 4 zones:
Zone 1: It’s the most dangerous area, where major
earthquakes may occur.
Zone 2: Municipalities in this area may be affected
by quite strong earthquakes.
Zone 3: Municipalities in this area may be subject to
modest shocks.
Zone 4: It is the least dangerous. Municipalities of
this area have a low probability of seismic
damages
Province of Potenza:
45 Municipalities in Zone 1 (red)
55 Municipalities in Zone 2 (yellow)

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Earthquake Simulated Scenarios (2014)
1857 BASILICATA
EARTHQUAKE
M = 6.8
Mw = 7.0
1980 IRPINIA
EARTHQUAKE
M = 6.6
Mw = 6.9
Risk Assessment Analyses have been performed:
Hazard x Vulnerability x Exposure of Pop  R  Disaster “Scenarios”
Province of Potenza Civil Protection Plan (2004)

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Landslides
Province of Potenza Territorial Coordination Plan TCP (2013)

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Municipalities:
Landslides
Cancellara
Corleto Perticara

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Some events recently occurred
Landslides

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2005 “Bosco Piccolo” Suburb (a district in Potenza City)
Landslides

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The Regional and Provincial hydraulic network
Hydraulic risk: Floods

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Some events recently occurred
Hydraulic risk: Floods

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Images from most representative dams and basins:
Dams
Pertusillo: 155 Mcm Monte Cotugno: 530 McmMarsico Nuovo: 7 Mcm

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Desertification
The Val d’Agri badlands

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Desertification
Sant’Arcangelo
municipality

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Forest fires and Cold waves
Low
High

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Main Risks (part 2)
Other risks due to land-use and management policies (human
induced):
- Technical Risk – Industrial settlements
- Urban sprawl
- Soil sealing
- Soil consumption
- Soil degradation

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Oil and natural gas exploitation and production
Technical risks

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Urban sprawl
Potenza City
Viggianello Municipality

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Urban sprawl and Soil consumption
Melfi
Municipality

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Soil consumption and degradation
Examples: RES installations

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Soil consumption and degradation
PV plants installations in Satriano di Lucania Municipality

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What we have done

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Disaster Risk Management and Reduction
DISASTER EVENT
CRISIS MANAGEMENT BUREAU
PREFECTURE
CIVIL PROTECTION OPERATIVE ROOM
PROVINCE
PREFECT
AND PRESIDENT OF THE PROVINCE
PROVINCIAL CIVIL PROTECTION
RESPONSIBLE
OTHER OPERATIVE STRUCUTRES
LOCAL CENTRES FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT
“CRISIS” UNIT
“TECHNIC-SCIENTIFIC” SUPPORT UNIT
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
ACTIVATION OF
COORDINATED BY DIRECTED BY
ACTIVATES ACTIVATES
EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION
ON DISASTER EVOLUTION
“SCENARIOS UPDATING”
COORDINATION
STRATEGY
DRM Organization structure and procedures at Provincial level
Province of Potenza Civil Protection Plan (2004 and updates)

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Disaster Risk Management and Reduction
DRR activities of Provincial competence (10 Essentials):
- Risk Assessment and monitoring
- Active DRR (prevention):
- In the last decade, several Meuros were invested in:
- Provincial road network: about 2.700 km
- High schools building estate: about 80 buildings (the “Safe-Ecologial
Schools” program)
- Manteinance and requalification inteventions on the hydraulic river
network and on the regional forest heritage (in cooperation with the
Basilicata Region)
- “Non-structural” DRR (prevention):
- Preparedness, trainings, information campaigns, drills, participation in
interregional cooperation projects (mostly EU co-funded), etc.

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What we are doing strategic

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Integration of DRR and Resilience in land-use tools
Provincial Territorial Coordination Plan TCP (2013)
National and Regional Land Use / Government Framework
Sub-Provincial
Wide Area
Structural
Plans
Inter-
Municipal
Structural
Plans
Municipal
Structural
Plans
Urban Land-
use planning
Tools
Other tools and interventions
Municipal building codes
Local sectorial development plans
Localization interventions

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The Provincial Territorial Coordination Plan (TCP)
Philosophy
Resilience needs important innovation from the key actors and
stakeholders of local land-use policies: policy makers, municipalities,
communities and citizens
Motivational lever
By implementing Resilience (i.e adopting a “new way of living” in
urban/territorial context), local communities may benefit of specific
advantages and opportunities (from economic, social, cultural,
environmental, etc points of view)
Expectations
The local context can play a fundamental role in this change of
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Contents:
Application of new living models based on a better land use and
government that combine sustainable development and territorial
safety (towards risks and climate change injuries)
A reduction process of the system’s vulnerability and of the exposure of
the population and goods to the territorial risks and climate change by
the combination of different structural and non-structural actions to be
applied at local/urban/community/citizen levels:
1. resilient and sustainable urban planning
2. renovation and performance enhancement of the built environment
3. better use and protection of natural resources including land

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Actions:
Strategic and structural local development action-plans based on
extensive wide-area analysis and programs of governance
interventions on different interacting sectors, including:
- Environment (Natural, Environmental and Landscape systems)
- Settlements and urban structure (urban, periurban and open
land areas)
- Relational system
- Viability, mobility and other Infrastructures
- Energy
- Productive sectors
- Social, cultural, etc. systems
- Territorial data collection and organization (GIS)

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Methodology
1. The “Institutional” channel (institutional commitment)
The TCP provides guidelines, directives and recommendations to be followed
by the Municipalities in land-use planning activities.
During the land-use planning processes, Municipalities are required:
- to demonstrate the compliance with the safety
requirements of higher-level plans and tools;
- to accompany land transformation interventions by
multi-risk and opportunity assessments demonstrating
the improvement of the overall situation and
convenience of the planning choices with respect to risk
prevention and mitigation;
- to accompany the overall land-use planning proposal by
analysis and assessments showing how “Resilient” is the
intervention and the actions to be performed for
assuring this requirement.

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Methodology
2. The “Supportive” or “Cooperative” channel (strategic “subsidiary”
approach)
The interaction is addressed to policy makers, municipalities, communities and citizens, and
is based on:
- Structured institutional partnership and wide
participation in decision-making processes
- Exchanging experiences and knowledge
- Facilitating implementation of best-practices
- Providing support and cooperation in the
experimentation of new land-use and development
policies with a subsidiary approach
- Up/down-scaling the local territorial issues by
working at a wide-area supra-municipal level
- Exploring and setting up measures encouraging new
forms of investments (private) for DRR in urban areas
- Promoting, facilitating, encouraging and
experimenting PPP and PPPP at local level

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Methodology
The Network “Province of Potenza– Municipalities” for Resilience
Website: http://www.provincia.potenza.it
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/provpzresilient
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/provpzresilient
email: provinciapzresiliente@gmail.com

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Added value for the Post 2015 Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction
How did our work support the implementation of the Hyogo
Framework for Action:
– Risk Assessment and Monitoring
– Disaster Risk Reduction & Disaster Risk Management
• Active prevention
• Non-structural prevention
• Operational disaster management models, including the post-disaster phase
– Integration of territorial safety (DRR and Climate change adaptation) into
sustainable development policies at provincial scale
– Support and cooperation with the Municipalities in implementing resilience
policy at local level
– Ensuring communities’ involvement
– Monitoring of the overall implementation action for finding gaps, needs and
solutions for strengthening the Resilience process

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Main gaps, needs and further steps to be addressed in the Post
2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (related to the topic
of the presented work) (1):
– Research:
Main selected gaps regarding the Risk Assessment Analyses to be integrated in
land-use policies:
• Building comprehensive and multi-level scenarios (also by using probabilistic
approaches)
• using open-source, open-data and crowdsourced systems
• ensuring data organization, availability and accessibility to wider public
– Education & Training:
• more skills needed to the local key-actors involved in land-use planning and
government policies
• more education to the communities;
• more emphasis on the socio-cultural aspect: raising communites’ awareness

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Main gaps, needs and further steps to be addressed in the Post 2015
Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (related to the topic of the presented
work) (2):
– Implementation & Practice:
• improving participation of communities in decision-making processes
– Policy:
• need for a major “ground” empowerment (communities, municipalities and Local
Authorities), providing also for pro-active communities’ involvement in decision-
making processes
• need for an improved dialogue among and between the local/regional/national
institutional and non-institutional apparatus
• networking (by using both cooperative and subsidiary approaches)
• involvement of the private sector (Public-Private and Public-Private-Population
Partnerships) in resilient and for Resilience investments
• enhancing communities risk awareness and related political will: this is
fundamental for shifting the attention from the response phase to the DRR and
Resilience implementation

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THANKS FOR
YOUR ATTENTION!
alessandro.attolico@provinciapotenza.it
Resilience and land use planning on the provincial territory of Potenza
… My Province is Getting Ready

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