The Influence of Potential Flood Hazard Areas for Urban Adaptation to Climate Change

Abstract

In the modern context of climatic uncertainty, the management of the resilient transformation process of the city emerges as a priority challenge for urban planning to develop a multidisciplinary and inter-scalar approach, transferring knowledge between sectors and encouraging the whole system thinking. In detail, the present work investigates the interferences between the potential flood hazard areas and the emergency planning of the municipality of Potenza. Critical nodes have been identified in the infrastructure network as essential features for coordinating rescue interventions to protect the population in a disaster. Indeed, the plan must be flexible in all emergencies, including unexpected ones. Therefore, a new perspective of risk management aims to reduce sources of risk and strengthen the ability to reduce the variability of performance, and complement the risk analysis with frameworks and practices that support system-wide resilience.