Territory management

We speak of a disaster or catastrophe when a natural phenomenon (Danger) affects an area, a region (Exposure) causing intense alterations to people, goods, services and the environment (Vulnerability), exceeding the response capacity of the affected community or society. So that this does not happen, it is necessary to carry out a correct planning of the territory according to the natural phenomena that can affect each specific area.

Today's society lacks risk pedagogy that affects the field of prevention at all levels of society. We must know how to protect ourselves, and for this reason, we offer you our experience in land management based on the zoning of the land against the different geological risks that may affect you.

It is essential to learn and accept coexistence with tolerable levels of natural risk (zero risk does not exist). Knowledge, technology, information, education and regulation are needed; in other words, awareness is needed. In this sense, we can provide you with all the necessary support so that you can live with risk in the best possible way, avoiding incursions into highly dangerous areas, and managing the territory to prevent potentially dangerous areas from being invaded.

The phenomena that occur in the present may have produced the same effects in the past and may also produce them in the future. This principle is only valid under homogeneous geological and geomorphological conditions, and always under the same morphoclimatic context. This principle applied to instability in slopes means that future instabilities will probably occur in slopes where there have been instabilities in the past, and more likely in areas where they have occurred more frequently.

This does not mean that phenomena cannot occur in areas where they have not previously occurred; if the geomorphological conditions of an area change, its stability may also change.

According to the predictive models of climate change, analyzed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), precipitation tends to become more and more seasonal, and to be stormy in nature and localized in space, which suggests episodes of intense and localized precipitation in the future , so alluvial phenomena / floods / floods, etc. they may be more frequent in the future, as well as landslides. Extreme seasonal bipolarism is being observed more and more, going from intense cold to extreme heat abruptly.

Taking these predictive models into account, zoning is especially important in the analysis of alluviums / floods / floods... on the one hand, and in the location of areas susceptible to generating landslides and rockfalls on the other.

Aim

Manage risk in urbanized or potentially developable areas exposed to different natural phenomena

The proposed procedure basically consists of:

1. Zoning the land according to hazard classes.
2. Attribute a meaning of the levels of danger according to their possibilities of urbanization: Buildable map

Hazard assessment method based on multidisciplinary techniques: geomorphology and numerical analysis.

Result

Classes of land according to its buildability:

1. Not buildable: Intended for the installation of protection measures.
2. Buildable with protection actions
3. Buildable with light performances
4. Buildable without restrictions