Safety for Territorial Resilience

Dear Colleagues,

The issue aims to define, as a specific goal, the interaction between concepts of risk analysis and territorial resilience, in terms of the development of risk assessment models that integrate the definition of the ethical–legal criterion—societal–economic–technical “acceptability” of residual risk. The proposed goals enrich the knowledge and understanding of these concepts by means of production strategies’ analysis (in terms of goods and services) and the use of innovative technologies applied to territorial vulnerability monitoring (i.e., seismic risk evaluation). According to the transversal nature of risk concept and safety, applications concerning territorial vulnerability with regard to critical infrastructures and complex systems and the impact of accidents can be explained for the integrated risk analysis model related to the management of natural critical events. The aim of this Special Issue is, therefore, to map a theoretical conceptual scheme to identify synthetic indicators starting from territorial risk components by means of the holistic representation model, according to which this dimension is positively correlated with factors of territorial vulnerability and negatively with factors of resilience. We intend to describe the local system in its specific dimensions (defined as cindinic hyperspace) to investigate how exposure to risk is determined by environmental factors. The analysis of territorial factors, relevant from the point of view of the exposure of the territory to the risk of a disturbing condition, allows creating a map of territorial resilience on a regional scale. Logical, ethical–axiological, epistemic–statistical criteria will allow the components identified to be traced back to the macro-categories “vulnerability” and “resilience”—by identifying attributes that involve structural heterogeneity, redundancy, availability of resources, and adaptation of the territorial system.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Territorial resilience evaluation;
• Territorial risk modeling;
• Vulnerability analysis;
• Damage quantification;
• Management and planning of ordinary and emergency conditions;
• Acceptability criteria definition.

Prof. Dr. Mara Lombardi
Guest Editor

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• emergency planning
• quantitative risk analysis
• risk and uncertainty
• safety target
• societal acceptability criteria
• sustainable development
• territorial resilience evaluation
• vulnerability analysis