TITLE:
A Proposal for a Geospatial Database to Support Emergency Management
AUTHORS:
Ivan Frigerio, Stefano Roverato, Mattia De Amicis
KEYWORDS:
Emergency Management; Geospatial Database; Civil Protection; Emergency Planning
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geographic Information System,
Vol.5 No.4,
July
30,
2013
ABSTRACT: The basic procedure of the Italian Civil Protection Department aims at
reducing disaster losses by giving prominence to a proactive strategy, focusing
on prevision and prevention of hazard events rather than postdisater
activities. Italian law commits municipalities to produce Emergency Plans that
include risk scenarios as well as all data required for emergency management,
such as structures, infrastructures and human resources. However the law in the matter of Civil Protection does not supply
information about how to produce and archive necessary data for emergency
planning and management. For this reason, we propose a standard methodology to
create a geodatabase using GIS software, to collect all data that could be used
by municipalities to create Emergency Plans. The resulting geodatabase provides
a tool for hazard mitigation planning, allowing not only the identification of
areas at risk, but also the structures, infrastructures and resources needed to
overcome a crisis, thus improving all strategies of risk reduction and the
resilience of the system [1].