International Day for Natural Disaster Risk Reduction
The International Day for Natural Disaster Risk Reduction, known worldwide as the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, is celebrated on October 13.
The day was born at the behest of the United Nations General Assembly in 1989.
The objective of establishing this day is to send an important signal to the Governments of all the countries of the world as well as to international organizations and the global population, to reflect on the increasing frequency and consistency with which natural disasters occur.
Among the institutional tasks of ISPRA there is the collection, processing and dissemination of maps and data on hydrogeological instability referring to the entire national territory, making them available to the country for risk prevention and mitigation.
In particular, ISPRA in collaboration with the Regions and Autonomous Provinces, creates the Inventory of Landslide Phenomena in Italy, in which, to date, over 634,000 landslides have been recorded, representing 2/3 of those in Europe.
- https://www.isprambiente.gov.it/en/news/international-day-for-natural-disaster-risk-reduction
- International Day for Natural Disaster Risk Reduction
- 2024-10-13T00:00:00+02:00
- 2024-10-13T23:59:59+02:00
- The International Day for Natural Disaster Risk Reduction, known worldwide as the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction , is celebrated on October 13. The day was born at the behest of the United Nations General Assembly in 1989. The objective of establishing this day is to send an important signal to the Governments of all the countries of the world as well as to international organizations and the global population, to reflect on the increasing frequency and consistency with which natural disasters occur. Among the institutional tasks of ISPRA there is the collection, processing and dissemination of maps and data on hydrogeological instability referring to the entire national territory, making them available to the country for risk prevention and mitigation. In particular, ISPRA in collaboration with the Regions and Autonomous Provinces, creates the Inventory of Landslide Phenomena in Italy, in which, to date, over 634,000 landslides have been recorded, representing 2/3 of those in Europe.
- When Oct 13, 2024 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
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94% of Italian municipalities are at risk from landslides, floods or coastal erosion, 1.3 million inhabitants are at risk of landslides and 6.8 million inhabitants at risk of floods (ISPRA Report, 2021). ISPRA is working on the 2024 edition which will be published early next year.
All data is published on the national IdroGEO platform, an easy tool to use, even with smartphones, to promote greater awareness of the risks affecting one's territory and informed decisions on where to buy one's home or locate new economic activities.
In the National Repertoire of Soil Defense Interventions (ReNDiS) ISPRA manages information relating to all soil defense interventions financed with resources under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, from 1999 to today. In ReNDiS, approximately 25,000 interventions are currently registered for a total of more than 17 billion euros in financing.
ISPRA also carries out a series of thematic insights such as, for example, the Report on flood hazard conditions in Italy and associated risk indicators, dedicated to providing a cognitive framework on flood hazard and risk conditions in Italy.