ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relations between ethics and knowledge as a critical bound of freedom, trust and truth which should be guaranteed and supervised by public institutions and politics. It had undergone a long juridical evolution since then, assuming, as a model of reference and guide, the role of the National Service of Civil Protection in cases of environmental catastrophes and social emergencies. According to the risk zoning map of the City of Naples, the area is rated as a very high hydro-geological risk zone. Through the state of exception, the Sovereign State creates the basic condition for Law to exist and function. The ethical dilemma for experts in the planning fields, professionally and morally engaged in the public domain is how to be liable, moving on uncertain terrain where political stakes and social demands clash and conflict, this terrain being a major problems such as environmental and social emergency, public order, national or European government sanctions.
