Flood risk management in Italy: challenges and opportunities for the implementation of the EU Floods Directive (2007/60/EC)
Italy's recent history is punctuated with devastating flood disasters claiming high death toll and causing vast but underestimated economic, social and environmental damage. The responses to major flood and landslide disasters such as the Polesine (1951), Vajont (1963), Firenze (1966), Valtelin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/13/2883/2013/nhess-13-2883-2013.pdf |