CIVIL PROTECTION TECHNICS

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in FOREST AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS

Disciplinary Sector:

Environmental and Health Engineering

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

DELOGU Giuseppe Mariano

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Minimum hours of attendance:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

no particular prerequisite, except for a general and scientific culture of a suitable level to attend a university course such as forest and environmental systems

AF code:

A001694

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

In the exam the papers prepared during the exercises are evaluated jointly with the student. The exam is carried out with an oral test aimed at verifying knowledge of the basic elements, as well as the ability to apply learned techniques.

Teaching period

Single Annual Cycle

Objectives

The course aims to provide students with the basic elements to define the concept of "disturbances" and consequent risk, danger, vulnerability of the territory and populations, with particular reference to the concepts of self-protection, prevention and emergency aid; the concepts of "civil prevention" associated with current models of "civil protection" and their necessary differences or additions; the nature of the "risks" of natural or anthropic origin to which the territory of Sardinia is exposed; the subjects involved in the management of prevention and emergency and their integration modules, with particular attention to the experiences not only at a regional level but in the Euro-Mediterranean and international scenario. The method of "lesson learned" as a guide to correct planning and emergency errors. Furthermore, adequate training must be given on the historical and current laws on civil protection, on the intervention methodologies (operational protocols, languages, internal communication aimed at the public, professionals involved, etc.). Methodologies on a theoretical and operational basis in emergency planning, prevention planning, in emergency scenarios with reference to the alert procedures contained in the regional civil protection and fire prevention plans.

Contents

1. Introduction on the "civil protection cycle"
    Danger, risk, vulnerability
    Living with risk and knowing how to manage it.
    The concept of planning and scheduling of interventions
    Sendai Framework for disaster mitigation (UNDDR)
    "Crisis management cycle"
    General normative references
2. Types of "natural" risks:
hydraulic
hydrogeological
wildfire
earthquake, volcans, tsunamis
other "perturbations" (wind, ice, snow, insects, drought, storms)
3. Types of "anthropic" risks (strictly speaking)
Industrial (Seveso directive and succ.)
Nuclear and chemical
Bacteriological
Major accidents (rail / airports / ships)
Free time accidents (hiking, missing, rescue in remote mountain areas)
4. Integration and overlapping of risks: aspects of health emergencies
5. Plan prevention
6. Learning from mistakes. Lesson learned experiences
7. Organization and organizations in civil protection:
The European Civil Protection Mechanism.
    Italian regulatory framework and comparisons with other European countries
Regional framework:
The CFVA
The Ag. Forestas
Volunteering
The "barraccelli"
The State component: the CNVVF, the police, the CCs,
Methodological references:
a) the "Augustus" method
b) the Incident Command System
How and when should they integrate?
8. Operating rooms (state, regional, local)
The "advanced command post"
Coordination problems and opportunities
Leadership in the chain of command: essential figures and their relationship in the PCA.
9. The information cycle: technologies, methods, selection and dissemination of news
The risk of "infotoxication".
          10. Post-emergency, restoration, return to normality
          11. Mitigation, preparadness, resilience
          12. Prepare for new events as part of the climate change scenario.

Recommended Bibliography

Recommended readings:
- Teacher's notes
- (for a general introduction to the Italian system):
"La nuova protezione civile" vol. 2, Maggioli ed., 2013 (vol. 1 not available)
"Disastri e catastrofi" Marotta and Zirilli, Maggioli ed., 2015
(for legal details):
La protezione civile nella società del rischio. La responsabilità penale nell'ambito dell'attività di protezione civile, ed. ETS, 2017
- (for thematic analysis):
"Dalla parte del fuoco, ovvero il paradosso di Bambi "Giuseppe Mariano Delogu, ed. the Maestrale, Nuoro, 2013
- web site (to be updated):
http://www.protezionecivile.gov.it/home
https://www.unisdr.org/we/coordinate/sendai-framework

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Theoretical lectures, with thematic exercises and guided tours at the Civil Protection structures of Sardinia.
Possible collaboration with technicians to exchange experiences

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