SH0022 - RISK PLANNING

courses

ID:

SH0022

Duration (hours):

60

CFU:

SSD:

URBANISTICA

Located in:

PESCARA

Url:

Course Details:

SUSTAINABLE HABITAT SCIENCES/CORSO GENERICO Year: 3

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (29/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)

Course Objectives

The training course aims to enable the student to acquire:

• knowledge of sector legislation and the main methodological-applicative references in terms of risk response planning;

• the ability to read and interpret the main planning tools;

• the ability to develop an operational proposal applied to the case study.

Course Prerequisites

None

Teaching Methods

The course includes lectures, meetings and application activities.

The lectures will mainly concern the methods of reading and interpreting environmental risks; planning risk mitigation strategies; the formulation, design, implementation, management and evaluation of the actions necessary to govern and mitigate the effects of risks on the territory.

The meetings are aimed at making the student aware of the innovation aspects of the main risk response planning experiences in Italy and abroad through the voice of the protagonists (administrators, designers, scholars, etc.).

The application activity coincides with a planning exercise relating to one or more areas of the Maiella National Park.

Assessment Methods

The exam consists of an oral test on the following topics:
• knowledge of the lectures (handouts made available on the Teams channel);• knowledge of the following reference texts:

MANDATORY TEXTS
1. Angrilli M. (2018) Piano progetto paesaggio. Urbanistica e recupero del bene comune. Milano: Franco Angeli.
2. Gisotti, G. (2005) Paesaggio e dissesto idrogeologico: le risposte dell’uomo. In SILVAE – Anno VI n.14.
3. APAT Agenzia per la protezione dell’ambiente e per i servizi tecnici, INU Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (2003) Gestione delle
aree di collegamento ecologico funzionale. Indirizzi e modalità operative per l’adeguamento degli strumenti di pianificazione del
territorio in funzione della costruzione di reti ecologiche a scala locale.
4. ISPRA (2011) Tematiche in primo piano. Annuario dei dati ambientali 2011. Capitolo 9: Pericolosità ambientale. ISPRA, Roma.
5. Sargolini M. (2020) “La preparazione ai disastri naturali per accrescere la resilienza delle aree interne”, in Paesaggi Instabili.
Esplorazioni del disegno urbano contemporaneo nelle aree interne, a cura di M. Morrica, Roma: Aracne.
RECOMMENDED TEXTS
6. Beck U. (2000) La società del rischio. Verso una seconda modernità. Roma: Carocci Editore.
7. Settis S. (2010) Paesaggio Costituzione Cemento. La battaglia per l’ambiente contro il degrado civile. Roma: Einaudi editore.

Texts

1. Angrilli M. (2018) Piano progetto paesaggio. Urbanistica e recupero del bene comune. Milano: Franco Angeli.
2. Gisotti, G. (2005) Paesaggio e dissesto idrogeologico: le risposte dell’uomo. In SILVAE – Anno VI n.14.
3. APAT Agenzia per la protezione dell’ambiente e per i servizi tecnici, INU Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (2003) Gestione delle
aree di collegamento ecologico funzionale. Indirizzi e modalità operative per l’adeguamento degli strumenti di pianificazione del
territorio in funzione della costruzione di reti ecologiche a scala locale.
4. ISPRA (2011) Tematiche in primo piano. Annuario dei dati ambientali 2011. Capitolo 9: Pericolosità ambientale. ISPRA, Roma.
5. Sargolini M. (2020) “La preparazione ai disastri naturali per accrescere la resilienza delle aree interne”, in Paesaggi Instabili.
Esplorazioni del disegno urbano contemporaneo nelle aree interne, a cura di M. Morrica, Roma: Aracne.
6. Beck U. (2000) La società del rischio. Verso una seconda modernità. Roma: Carocci Editore.
7. Settis S. (2010) Paesaggio Costituzione Cemento. La battaglia per l’ambiente contro il degrado civile. Roma: Einaudi editore.

The Risk Planning course is aimed at deepening the concepts of danger and risk with reference to protected areas and according to an integrated and multidisciplinary approach.

In particular, environmental risk will be taken into consideration, understood as the result of the product of three parameters according to the well-known equation R = P x V x E, where P indicates the danger, V indicates the vulnerability, i.e. the propensity of an exposed natural asset to suffer damage following a certain calamitous event, and E the exposure, i.e. the value of all the elements at risk within the exposed area.

Based on this methodological-operational approach, the course will delve into the tools and methods for risk response planning, understood as the process that defines a series of risk response actions with the aim of reducing the threats of negative risks and to increase the opportunities associated with positive risks.

Specifically, the course aims to analyze the risks normally associated with the areas in order to maximize opportunities (positive outcome risks) and limit the probability and impact of possible threats (negative outcome risk).

Case study

The Maiella National Park and the risks associated with it, such as fire risk, will be taken as the field of application of the course; geological risk; earthquake risk; risk of avalanches etc.

These themes will be at the center of the project experience conducted within the course and developed, in the second semester, with the Risk Planning Laboratory.

Course Language

Italian

More information

The course takes place in the first semester.

In order to constantly monitor student learning, the following are planned: individual and collective meetings to be held in the classroom; exercises and research to be carried out in the classroom and at home.