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January 2019

Municipality of Cesenatico: a bright example of flood risk prevention and communication to citizens

January 2019

We have had the pleasure to talk to Matteo Gozzoli, mayor of Cesenatico, a municipality of the Riviera of Romagna, Italy, affected by the risk of sea storms and flooding caused by temporary rises in sea level. The local Administration has consistently invested for years to create a prepared and resilient community. The first automatic early warning system dates back to the end of 2000, but today the municipality can count on a series of integrated and advanced solutions in order to limit the effects of flooding, make the right choices and alert the population on time.

CAE goes to the second edition of COWM aiming at a more active generation of citizens

January 2019

The second edition of the Citizen Observatories for Natural Hazards and Water Management (COWM 2018) has just taken place in Venice. Guido Bernardi from CAE presented his intervention entitled: “Flash-floods, landslides and urban inundations: integration of Large Scale Monitoring Networks and Local Early Warning Systems”.