ABSTRACT
Emergency management is very complex. In order to reduce the impact on the population and territories, an excellent knowledge of the area and a careful planning of the actions to be applied to the possible scenarios are required.
This research focuses on the effects of the seismic sequence that hit Central Italy in 2016 and 2017 causing hundreds of deaths and several damages in many municipalities. We analyzed the emergency that occurred in the Sibillini National Park area during that period, observing how the crisis was managed and questioning the best practice to limit the consequences of those natural disasters. Considering the experience as a fundamental component for the development of an effective emergency plan, the analysis of the several disasters and social emergencies that affected those areas is the starting point for the evaluation of useful management strategies to overcome the territorial vulnerability. The methodological approach of the analysis is organized by three main thematic focus on different scales: the territory, the community and the cultural heritage. The first theme covers the planning, the monitoring and the managing of the basic emergency facilities from a macro-scale point of view. The analysis of the communities during the emergency is the human scale focus and aims at understanding how to improve people’s response to the emergency, managing the protection of their economic and social life. The in-depth study on cultural heritage concerns all the pre- and post-emergency actions necessary to guarantee the transmission of that heritage to the future generations.
The results of these analyses aim at providing indications on how to reduce future damages in similar emergency scenarios, suggesting a more coordinated way in managing the emergency phases involving all the actors, from institutions to local communities.
