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An Extensive Italian Database of River Embankment Breaches and Damages
- Michela Marchi,
- Ilaria Bertolini,
- Laura Tonni,
- Luca Morreale,
- Andrea Colombo,
- Tommaso Simonelli and
- Guido Gottardi
River embankments are critical flood defense structures, stretching for thousands of kilometers across alluvial plains. They often originated as natural levees resulting from overbank flows and were later enlarged using locally available soils yet ra...