1. Preventing flooding RIsks by Making resilient communitiES
PRIMES
Preventing flooding RIsks by Making resilient communitiES
Kick-off meeting Ancona, Febbraio 2016

2. UNIVPM Higher education institutions in Ancona since 1562;
Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM) found in 1959;
Five colleges: agriculture, economics, engineering, medicine, science.
Among the various degrees:
Undergraduate degree in Environmental Sciences and Emergency Management;
Master degree in Environmental Sustainability and Civil Protection;
Ph.D. program in Civil and Environmental Protection.

3. Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
Research laboratories
Disaster Risk Reduction and Civil Protection (DisasterLab)
Collaboration with various research institutions from around the World (USA, Canada, EU, France, Spain, UK, Germany, Austria, Greece, Croatia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Singapore, Israel, etc.).
Research activities focus on both local and global issues of environmental sustainability as well as hazard and disaster prevention.

4. DisasterLab Coordinator: Fausto Marincioni Research subjects include:
Vulnerability and resilience to disasters
Hazard and Risk Perception
Adaptation to climate change
Multidisciplinary approach
Besides the traditional physical sciences research methods, socio-cultural approaches are also carried out.

5. PEOPLE

6. UNIVPM - PRIMES ACTION
D. Monitoring of the impact of the project actions
D.1
Risk Perception and Community Resilience Analysis
D.2
Analysis of Expected Impacts
on the Local Economy
and Environment
D.1.1
Risk perception analysis
D.1.2
Community resilience analysis

7. f.marincioni@univpm.it (coordinator)
(research fellow)
(administrative ref.)