Abstract
The project SISMI-Tecnologie per il miglioramento della Sicurezza e la ricostruzione dei centri Storici in area sisMIca (technologies for the improvement of safety and the reconstruction of historic centres in the seismic area)–aims to provide tools and methods for risk reduction and seismic improvement of Lazio’s cultural assets and centres, causing research, intervention policies, and planning to interact in order to support reconstruction choices and foster dialogue with local parties and enterprises. One of the SISMI project’s main elements of innovation consists of preparing modes of integration of knowledge and assessments relating to the various components of a territory’s vulnerability and seismic hazard that can be used in other seismic territories. SISMI project, tested in seismic territories of Central Italy, is a methodology of integrated, multidimensional, and transdisciplinary investigation, in the conviction that the safety of the territory and of historic and cultural assets is the result of a dynamic risk reduction process capable of guaranteeing and promoting the local communities’ resilience, in which both physical/structural and sociocultural elements collaborate.
Highlights
In Italy, the past 50 years alone have seen 18 major seismic events with magnitudes equal to or upwards of 5.8, and eight of them have been catastrophic [1]
In order to support choices and activities of local administrations for the seismic improvement of historic centres, the SISMI project proposes a methodology of integrated, multidimensional, and transdisciplinary investigation, in the conviction that the safety of the territory and of historic and cultural assets is the result of a dynamic risk reduction process capable of guaranteeing and promoting the local communities’ resilience, in which both physical/structural and sociocultural elements collaborate
The SISMI project, according to the aims of the Centre of Excellence for the Lazio Region DTC, promotes the use of innovative technologies, favouring their transfer and dissemination in favour of the multiple stakeholders involved in the improvement of the safety of Cultural heritage in seismic areas
Summary
In Italy, the past 50 years alone have seen 18 major seismic events with magnitudes equal to or upwards of 5.8, and eight of them have been catastrophic (greater than or equal to degrees IX–XI on the Mercalli scale) [1]. The financing allocated for the rescue, emergency management, and reconstruction phases during the 1968–2016 period, from the Belice earthquake to the more recent one that struck Central Italy, is estimated at about €125 billion. In Irpinia, for example, these processes will continue at least until 2023 (43 years after the event); in Emilia, Abruzzo, and Central Italy, until 2047, with an additional €35 billion committed to being spent [3]. The post-seismic reconstruction of the internal areas of Central Italy is, a serious and recurring problem
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