HERCULES - Towards Geohazards Resilient Infrastructure Under Changing Climates (DTA.AD003.312)

Thematic area

Earth system science and environmental technologies

Project area

Structure responsible for the research project

Research institute for geo-hydrological protection (IRPI)

Project manager

ALESSANDRO PASUTO
Phone number: 0498295800
Email: pasuto@cnr.it

Abstract

HERCULES brings together a multidisciplinary team crossing boundaries to develop a step change in the understanding and monitoring geohazards and develop new methods to boost the resilience of current infrastructure under changing climates. The programme will undertake fundamental research to ascertain the pathways and grow our capacity to assess and predict risks due to geohazards. The proposed study will employ a range of novel approaches across multiple scales, including the integration of EO, laboratory investigation and by investigating the ground behaviour at the scale of soil particles experimentally using tomography and numerical techniques such as the DEM. Our approach is unique in that the design and implementation of the technology is informed not only through the combination of laboratory and field studies, data interpretation and numerical simulations, but also coproduced through consultation with the local community. We will use crowdsourced geographic information with real-time environmental data and models to provide a decisionmaking framework to be adapted to local needs for the monitoring and EWS of geozahards to improve urban resilience.

Goals

The goals of the project are to: i) exchange knowledge in a multidisciplinary environment between academia and industry; ii) develop new insights, approaches and technologies that support the needs of end-users to make both the built environment and infrastructure more resilient to the increasing threat of natural hazards due to the effect of a more variable climate; iii) train Early Stage Researches (ESRs) during their secondments between Institutions who will form the next generation of researchers leading academic and industrial technological developments in this field.

Start date of activity

01/03/2018

Keywords

Infrastrutture, Rischio, Resilienza

Last update: 01/05/2024