1. Urban Resilience to severe storms.
An Italian case-history of local
community response to natural disasters.
Università di Torino
Doctoral School in Strategic Sciences
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
2. Varazze
Where !
Tyrrhenian Liguria
14.000
47
inhabitants
km2
Social Framework
Strong family ties wide
neighbourhood relationships,
civil protection bodies,
volunteer groups.
Risks Scenario
complex orography, storms,
heavy rainfall (orographic lift),
debris floods and flash floods.
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
4. What happened
Varazze 4/10/2010
storm with a peak rate
35 mm/10min
177.4 mm/h
300 mm of rainfall in 6h
floods landslides
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
5. What happened
Varazze 4/10/2010
storm with a peak rate
35 mm/10min
177.4 mm/h
300 mm of rainfall in 6h
floods landslides
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
6. ?
Questions
Did the alert and warning systems worked well?
Was Local Civil Protection responsive?
Did the population cope with the event?
To what extent web 2.0 tools and approaches could
have been helpful to inform the population and to
increase situational awareness of the rescue teams?
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
7. 04/10/2010 The Story Telling
The Municipality of Varazze is hit by an
extraordinarily heavy rainfall.
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
8. 03/10/2010 | the day before The Story Telling
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
9. 03/10/2010 | the day before The Story Telling
Turin
150 km
Varazze
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
10. 03/10/2010 | the day before The Story Telling
Turin
150 km
Varazze
«Tomorrow I will have a meeting in Turin.
Let’s have a look at the weather forecast.»
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
11. 03/10/2010 | the day before The Story Telling
Turin
150 km
Varazze
«Tomorrow I will have a meeting in Turin. !
Let’s have a look at the weather forecast.»
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
12. 03/10/2010 | the day before The Story Telling
Turin
150 km
Varazze
«Tomorrow I will have a meeting in Turin. «Not too bad. Just 30mm in 12 hrs. The
!
Let’s have a look at the weather forecast.» usual grey and rainy day.»
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
13. 03/10/2010 | the day before The Story Telling
Turin
150 km
Varazze
«Tomorrow I will have a meeting in Turin. «Not too bad. Just 30mm in 12 hrs. The
!
Let’s have a look at the weather forecast.» usual grey and rainy day.»
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
14. 03/10/2010 | the day before The Story Telling
Turin
150 km
Varazze
«Tomorrow I will have a meeting in Turin. «Not too bad. Just 30mm in 12 hrs. The
!
Let’s have a look at the weather forecast.» usual grey and rainy day.»
Civil Protection alert is low (alert 1), the
basic level on a scale of 3.
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
15. 03/10/2010 | the day before The Story Telling
Turin
150 km
Varazze
«Tomorrow I will have a meeting in Turin. «Not too bad. Just 30mm in 12 hrs. The
!
Let’s have a look at the weather forecast.» usual grey and rainy day.»
Civil Protection alert is low (alert 1), the
basic level on a scale of 3.
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
16. 03/10/2010 | the day before The Story Telling
Turin
150 km
Varazze
«Tomorrow I will have a meeting in Turin. «Not too bad. Just 30mm in 12 hrs. The
!
Let’s have a look at the weather forecast.» usual grey and rainy day.»
Civil Protection alert is low (alert 1), the Media: Local and light rains, the alert
basic level on a scale of 3. until 04/10/2010 12 pm
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
17. 10/04/2010 | the event day The Story Telling
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
20. Q&A
Did the alert and warning
systems worked well?
Was Local Civil Protection
responsive?
Did the population cope with
the event?
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
21. Q&A
To what extent web 2.0 tools and approaches
could have been helpful to inform the population
and to increase situational awareness of the
rescue teams?
In Japan after the earthquake and tsunami, crowd-sourced maps have
helped give local relief workers a clearer picture of the situation on the
ground as they set priorities for food, shelter and sanitation services.
Online Mapping Shows Potential to Transform Relief Efforts
By STEVE LOHR, NYTimes
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
22. Web 2.0 | the perspective SHARED TRACKING
School busses and children
SEND ALERTS AND
COMMUNICATIONS
DEVICES
CITIZENS AS SENSORS
geolocated alerts and reports from
the population; citizens, public
administrators, emergency managers
can better monitor and share
information on the overall situation
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
28. The 2.0 Actors
Institutions Communications Volunteers
ss
Ma
ne
na
d
are
emg
ep
Risk
en
Pr
t
Relief
Media Citizens
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
29. 2.0 Information Tips
Communications
geolocazion crowdsourcing
ss
Ma
ne
na
d
are
emg
ep
Risk
en
Pr
t
Relief
tag & taxonomy data format
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
30. Actions
Collecting Communicating
Remote Decision
information with the Talk
monitoring making
from the field population
Send two ways
Share
SMS to wide Geolocate
Training information, Planning
groups of information
files, images
people
Tracking
Collaboration
operators, Update in real Broadcasting
in Documents Informing
volunteers time video - audio
editing
teams
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
32. Web 2.0 | blog.salaoperativaprociv.org
Civil Protection Intermunicipality Plan
Geolocated data, shared and published [embed]
Downloadable maps
Meteo Alerts
Information, News and Feeds
Knowledge sharing to allow other to implement the same tools
Crowdsourcing Map to send and receive alerts
iGoogle for the municipalities civil protection centres and
Volunteers
geo tracking [google latitude]
google talk
google documents for collaborative work
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
33. SWOT: Web 2.0 and Risks
Strength Weakness
Opportunities
Emotional Participation
Scientific Knowledge
Proactive Collaboration
Distributed Knowldege
Threads
Elites Knowledge
Sharing Knowledge
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
34. SWOT: Web 2.0 and Risks
Strength Weakness
Local Social Ties
Opportunities
Global Social Networks
Emotional Participation
Scientific Knowledge
Proactive Collaboration
Distributed Knowldege
Volunteers Commitment
Web 2.0 Community
Threads
Elites Knowledge
Sharing Knowledge
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
35. SWOT: Web 2.0 and Risks
Strength Weakness
Local Social Ties
«Web Divide»
Opportunities
Global Social Networks
Common Approach
Emotional Participation
Scientific Knowledge
Proactive Collaboration
Distributed Knowldege
Volunteers Commitment Low Budget
Web 2.0 Community Free web 2.0 platforms
Threads
Elites Knowledge
Sharing Knowledge
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
36. SWOT: Web 2.0 and Risks
Strength Weakness
Local Social Ties
«Web Divide»
Opportunities
Global Social Networks
Common Approach
Emotional Participation
Scientific Knowledge
Proactive Collaboration
Distributed Knowldege
Volunteers Commitment Low Budget
Web 2.0 Community Free web 2.0 platforms
Lack of common approaches
Web Standards
Threads
Elites Knowledge
Sharing Knowledge
Reliable Sources
Participation and Collaboration
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
37. SWOT: Web 2.0 and Risks
Strength Weakness
Local Social Ties
«Web Divide»
Opportunities
Global Social Networks
Common Approach
Emotional Participation
Scientific Knowledge
Proactive Collaboration
Distributed Knowldege
Volunteers Commitment Low Budget
Web 2.0 Community Free web 2.0 platforms
Lack of common approaches Low Web litteracy
Web Standards Past Dependencies
Threads
Elites Knowledge Low Collaboration
Sharing Knowledge Slow pace of change
Reliable Sources Low Budget
Participation and Collaboration Lack of Continuance
venerdì 8 aprile 2011
39. Università di Torino
Doctoral School in Strategic Sciences
Massimo Lanfranco Elena Rapisardi
massimo.lanfranco@unito.it e.rapisardi@gmail.com
venerdì 8 aprile 2011