The soil consumption, hydrogeological instability and urban growth.ISPRA report 2015

The soil consumption, hydrogeological instability and urban growth will be the topics of the seminar organized by the collaboration between ISPRA and the "Fondazione Giuliani" to be held in Cosenza  next June 12 at Villa Rendano. The meeting will be an opportunity to develop a fundamental debate involving politics, culture and civil society  of Cosenza and Calabria.

The seminar will be attended by Bernardo de Bernardinis, President of ISPRA;  Massimo Veltri, professor of Hydraulics, University of Calabria; Michele Munafò, ISPRA,Director of the project land use in Italy; Saverio Putortì, Designer Coordinator Regional Territorial Landscape, Calabria.

In Italy, in the last two decades, nearly forty percent of major urban transformations took place through the creation of low-density areas, while over a third took place with the building of new commercial centers, industrial and service sectors. A typical process of urban growth where the distinction between urban and rural is cancelled,  amplifying the impacts on natural ecosystems and increasing exposure to hydrogeological  instability phenomena.

Italy due the geological, morphological and for the significant human settlement of its territory, is a country with high geological risk, both for landslides that flood. Landslides are extremely widespread, even considering that seventy-five percent of the national territory is mountainous-hill

Reducing soil consumption is possible, through the develop of ‘green belts’ around the perimeter of the city and defining new cohesive concept of the outskirts.

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Soil Consumption in Italy - 2015 Edition