Terraced landscapes: From an old best practice to a potential hazard for soil degradation due to land abandonment

P Tarolli, F Preti, N Romano - Anthropocene, 2014 - Elsevier
Among the most evident landscape signatures of the human fingerprint, the terraces related
to agricultural activities are of great importance. This technique is widely used in various …

A geochemical and sedimentological perspective of the life cycle of Neapolis harbor (Naples, southern Italy)

H Delile, JP Goiran, J Blichert-Toft… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Since the discovery of the ancient harbor of Naples in 2004 during construction work on an
underground railway, geoarchaeological studies undertaken on the archaeological …

X-band radar system to detect bathymetric changes at river mouths during storm surges: a case study of the Arno River

F Raffa, I Alberico, F Serafino - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Storm surges are natural events that influence the dispersion of sediment along coasts,
leading to sudden morphological changes in the seabed. From this perspective, we focused …

UAV close-range photogrammetry for breakwater damage assessment in a Tyrrhenian coastal site

A Florio, D Di Luccio, U Robustelli… - Coastal Engineering …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Assessing breakwater damage following intense storm events is crucial for preventing
failures that can compromise safety and service quality. This study focuses on assessing the …

Paesaggi terrazzati d'Italia: Eredità storiche e nuove prospettive

L Bonardi, M Varotto - 2016 - torrossa.com
E-book FrancoAngeli Page 1 PAESAGGI TERRAZZATI D’ITALIA Eredità storiche e nuove
prospettive Luca Bonardi, Mauro Varotto CLUB ALPINO ITALIANO SAGGI SULLA MONTAGNA …

The use of documentary sources for reconstructing flood chronologies on the Amalfi rocky coast (southern Italy)

S Porfido, E Esposito, F Alaia, F Molisso… - Geological Society …, 2009 - lyellcollection.org
Documentary source materials are essential for retrospective reconstruction of flood events
occurring in past centuries. This paper presents methods of research and archiving of …

Landslides in coastal areas of Italy

C Iadanza, A Trigila, E Vittori… - Geological Society, London …, 2009 - lyellcollection.org
Of the more than 8000 km of coasts in Italy, about 35% consist of cliffs and rocky shores. On
them many villages are located, some of them dating back to Roman or Greek times. Typical …

Insights into flood-dominated fan-deltas: very high-resolution seismic examples off the Amalfi cliffed coasts, eastern Tyrrhenian Sea

M Sacchi, F Molisso, C Violante… - Geological Society …, 2009 - lyellcollection.org
A high-resolution (IKB-Seistec) seismic survey calibrated with gravity-core data, off the
Amalfi coast, a rocky coastal area on the southern side of the Sorrento Peninsula (Italy) …

Using optimisation meta-heuristics for the roughness estimation problem in river flow analysis

A Agresta, M Baioletti, C Biscarini, F Caraffini, A Milani… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Climate change threats make it difficult to perform reliable and quick predictions on floods
forecasting. This gives rise to the need of having advanced methods, eg, computational …

Rocky coast: geological constraints for hazard assessment

C Violante - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2009 - lyellcollection.org
Geological hazard along rocky coasts is basically associated with processes of rapid
sediment transfers. Massive transport of rock, regolith, sedimentary cover and soil occur …