Olga Petrucci

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed eight paired floods, that is, consecutive flood events that occurred in the same region, with the second flood causing significantly lower damage, and found that lower damage caused by the second event was mainly due to significant reductions in vulnerability, for example, via raised risk awareness, preparedness, and improvements of organizational emergency management.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new flood database that is being developed within the framework of HYMEX project is presented, focusing on four regions representative of the NW sector of Mediterranean Europe: Catalonia, Spain, the Balearic Islands, Spain; Calabria, Italy; and Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrenees and PACA, France.

TL;DR: In Italy males are more vulnerable to floods and landslides for most of the age categories, and the over-representation of males compared to the females, both for landslide and flood is statistically significant and does not vary in time, indicating a different propensity towards the risk taking and a different degree of exposure between males and females.

TL;DR: A method for the regional-scale evaluation of future variations in the occurrence of rainfall-induced landslides, in response to changes in rainfall regimes is proposed and can be applied in similar regions, where adequate landslide and rainfall information is available.

TL;DR: In this article, an interdisciplinary research agenda is proposed to uncover the paradoxical dynamics of risk, such as the safe development paradox or safety dilemma, in the context of structural flood protection.