PROGRAMMAZIONE DIDATTICA COORTE A.A. 2020/2021
CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE in 10553 ENGINEERING FOR NATURAL RISK MANAGEMENT (classe LM-26)

SCHEDA INFORMATIVA

Sede amministrativa:  SV
Classe delle lauree in: 

Classe delle lauree magistrali in INGEGNERIA DELLA SICUREZZA (classe LM-26)

Durata:  2 anni
Indirizzo web:  www.natrisk.unige.it
Dipartimento di riferimento:  DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA NAVALE, ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE TELECOMUNICAZIONI

PIANO DI STUDI

1° anno (coorte 2020/2021)

Codice Disciplina Settore CFU Tipologia/Ambito Obiettivi Formativi Propedeuticità
94635 ENVIRONMENTAL AND TERRITORIAL RISK LAWS AND REGULATIONS: IUS/10 10

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  94636 - BASIC JURIDICAL NOTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENT LAW IUS/10 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ambito Giuridico-Economico
The course will examine the main principles of law, the different juridical acts, the organization of public powers in Italy, the fundamental human rights, the relationships between Italian law and international law as well as European Union law. These notions are useful to understand problematical issues about environment.

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  94637 - PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES, LIABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY IUS/10 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ambito Giuridico-Economico
The course will focus on the system of International, European and Italian environmental Laws and Regulations, also from a comparative law perspective, as well as it aims to provide an introduction to some of the key issues of territorial management in those Law and Regulation. First of all the course is underpinned by the main principles in environmental matter (such as prevention, precaution, best environmental protection and sustainable development). Secondly the course deals with the governance of risk (particularly in respect of natural hazard, various kinds of pollution and emerging technologies), providing students with an understanding of how the law seeks to regulate pollution control, conservation of the built and natural environment, and risk assessment and management, in particular through environmental authorisations and public planning policies. Finally the course aims to deepen the consequent liabilities and responsibilities, in particular of public powers or technicians, according to Laws and Jurisprudence.

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94632 WEATHER RELATED HAZARDS ICAR/02 10

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  94633 - ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS + IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ICAR/02 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria della Sicurezza e Protezione Civile, Ambientale e del Territorio
The aim of the course is to introduce the fundamentals of atmospheric circulation that govern weather and climate from synoptic scale to mesa-alfa scale. Attention will be paid to the extremes, climate change impacts on the environmental risks, impacts on the intensity and frequency of extreme meteorological and hydrological events (floods, droughts, hurricanes, wind storms, heat waves, etc). A review on formulation and parameterizations used in numerical weather prediction models will be presented. The concept of uncertainty in numerical modelling of the extreme events will be presented with idealized and real cases applications. Students will learn to treat numerical and observational atmospherical data using MATLAB.

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  94634 - HYDRO-METEOROLOGICAL HAZARDS ICAR/02 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria della Sicurezza e Protezione Civile, Ambientale e del Territorio
The aim of the course is to introduce the student to the basic concepts and techniques for flood hazard mapping. These include: - the basics of flood hazard mapping: common terminology, indicators of hazard magnitude, basics of mapping techniques - elements of the statistical analysis of the hydrological extremes (river discharge and rainfall). Source of data and common statistical techniques to derive rainfall and river flow quantiles - elements of hydrological models: common simple rainfall-runoff and flow routing models. - flood hazard mapping: empirical, physically based and geomorphological models At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to - understand the meaning of flood hazard magnitude and interpret flood hazard maps - retrieve and manipulate series of hydrological extremes and apply basic statistics deriving rainfall and flood quantiles - apply simple hydrological modelling to the result of the statistical analysis of extremes - draw a flood hazard map for a small river basin using geomorphological methods

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94638 GEOHAZARDS 10

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  94639 - SEISMIC HAZARD AND RISK GEO/10 5 5 CFU AFFINI O INTEGRATIVE Attività Formative Affini o Integrative
The course is designed to provide the fundamental principles of seismic hazard and risk mitigation. Basic concepts of seismology, earthquakes, and strong ground motion will be firstly presented to introduce procedures of deterministic and probabilistic seismic hazard analysis. Subsequently, methods for ground response analysis will be discussed in order to provide insight into problems as site effects and seismic slope stability. The course will end presenting procedures and systems for seismic monitoring and earthquake early warning.

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  94641 - LANDSLIDE HAZARDS GEO/05 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria della Sicurezza e Protezione Civile, Ambientale e del Territorio
The course deals with hazards posed by landslides and erosional processes resulting from natural phenomena and/or man-made actions. Firstly, the geotechnical bases and the principles of landslide classification, investigation and mapping, as well as the basic approaches to assess slope stability conditions will be presented. Later, the various techniques of slope monitoring and the methods available for the assessment of landslide susceptibility will be discussed. At last, the course will deal with aspects of landslide risk management, namely prevention and mitigation measures.

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94626 ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS MODELLING 10

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  94627 - DYNAMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS ING-INF/04 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria della Sicurezza e Protezione dell'Informazione
This course is designed to provide the fundamental principles of the dynamic nature of environmental systems, and to provide students with basic conceptual tools for quantitative analysis of change for the most significant environmental problem areas. The course will provide the student with a unique combination of theoretical and conceptual basis for modelling environmental risks and sustainability, and hands-on knowledge on how to approach the modelling of complex environmental systems, often described as a system of systems with natural and anthropogenic interacting components.

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  94628 - MODELS AND METHODS FOR DECISION SUPPORT MAT/09 5 5 CFU AFFINI O INTEGRATIVE Attività Formative Affini o Integrative
The Course introduces to optimization models and methods for the solution of decision problems,  with  case-studies from environmental systems. It is structured according to the basic topics of problem modelling, its tractability, and its solution by means of algorithms that can be implemented on computers. 

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94629 TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS AND DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC SYSTEM 10

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  94630 - COMMUNICATION NETWORKS FOR EMERGENCY AND MONITORING ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria della Sicurezza e Protezione dell'Informazione
Basic concepts on modern Network and Internet technologies; introduction to the architecture and protocols for wireless communication; basic concepts on Radio Cellular Networks , WiFi, Bluetooth and sensor networks technologies. Machine to Machine standards. Laboratory practical and simulative experiences.

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  94631 - DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING ING-INF/01 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria della Sicurezza e Protezione dell'Informazione
Basic concepts on technologies for modern electronic embedded systems. Introduction to sensor devices and sensing methods. Embedded electronic sensing systems for Internet of Things (IoT) and for distributed monitoring. Basic concepts of radio transceivers. Distributed wireless sensing networks for environmental monitoring. Application examples.

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94667 SYSTEM MANAGEMENT FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT ING-IND/09 5 5 CFU AFFINI O INTEGRATIVE Attività Formative Affini o Integrative
The course will cover the topics related to the management of Large Combustion Plants, LCP, and their interaction with the environment. Fuel properties and associated risks are presented, with a focus on the Utilities network monitoring. Combustion process and its environmental impact will be investigated and the Best Available Technology to reduce pollutant emissions in LCP will be analyzed on the base of the 2016 European IPCC BrEFDocument. LCP pollutant monitoring and control strategies will be presented.

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94662 RANDOM PROCESSES FOR INFORMATION REPRESENTATION AND DECISION SUPPORT ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria della Sicurezza e Protezione dell'Informazione
The course introduces the key concepts related to stochastic modeling in the framework of disaster risk prevention and assessment. Basic knowledge will be provided about probability theory, random variables, stochastic processes, and Bayesian decision theory. Examples of applications to problems of data modeling and analysis associated with risk applications will be discussed.

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2° anno (coorte 2020/2021)

Codice Disciplina Settore CFU Tipologia/Ambito Obiettivi Formativi Propedeuticità
94656 RISK IN NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS 10

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  94657 - IMPACTS OF DISASTERS ON COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS ICAR/02 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria della Sicurezza e Protezione Civile, Ambientale e del Territorio
The course will be developed on three main areas: Hydraulic Maritime and Coastal Engineering, Marine Pollution and Marine ecosystem monitoring. In particular, they will address the following themes:prediction wave, action on the coasts, numerical models of simulation and forecasting, numerical models for the wave action on the morphology of the coast, wave river mouths interaction, analysis of the formation of coastal currents and their action on the coasts. The pollutant transport phenomena, numerical models for the transport of passive and chemically active substances in the coastal environment. The effects on the ecosystem as a result of input of pollutants, the creation of works, fluvial-marine system interactions, modeling and simulation of the dynamics of these ecosystems, interaction between coastal and ecosystem dynamics currents.

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  94658 - WILDFIRE RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT ING-INF/04 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria della Sicurezza e Protezione dell'Informazione
The course will provide the knowledge needed to understand the processes related with fire occurrence in the agro-forest environment. An overview of the problem of wildfires at global level will be introduced focusing on the several aspects involved in this kind of risk, including climate change. Firstly, the main aspects related with wildfire hazard will be analyzed. Techniques for assessing wildfire danger maps will be approached. In addition, the effects of meteorological variability will be described in order to predict local extremes in wildfire danger conditions. Tools and methodologies for the prediction of wildfire danger will be used and described. Finally, exposed elements and vulnerability will be introduced in order to evaluate risk and emergency scenarios through the application of simulation tools. The students will be able to make use of the knowledge acquired during the classes in order to provide support to decision makers both in prevention phase and suppression.

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94659 RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT 10

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  94660 - INTEGRATED RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT ICAR/02 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria della Sicurezza e Protezione Civile, Ambientale e del Territorio
The aim of the course is to introduce the student to the concept of risk management with and provide basic tools to draw risk maps starting from any hazard map. The topics include: -the analysis of risk management cycle and of the official terminology associated to it - the basic concepts and the phases of risk assessment, differences between risk and disasters, classification of risks. - Elements of country risk profiles: sources of data and applications to real cases - Elements of mapping risk scenarios and Basic methods and sources of information for the Estimation of Exposure and Vulnerability at different spatial scales. - general methodologies for the calculation of standard parameters in the risk assessment procedures (eg. PML and AAL) and examples of applications - practical examples of real time risk management and disaster risk reduction At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to: - describe conceptually the phases of the risk management cycle, understanding the differences among them - interpret and understand the information provided by any risk map - know and describe the most common methodologies for exposure and vulnerability assessment - know and describe common examples of real time risk management and disaster risk reduction policies - draw a risk map starting from a categorized hazard map at block and municipality scale.

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  94661 - ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT OF CHEMICALS ING-IND/24 5 5 CFU AFFINI O INTEGRATIVE Attività Formative Affini o Integrative
The purpose of this course is to disseminate the basic principles and methods to characterize the nature and magnitude of health risks to humans and of ecological risk to organisms and receptors due to chemical contaminants that may be present in the environment, and released during Natural Events or from Human and Industrial Activities. Common environmental investigation scenarios are discussed together with the evidence collection strategies. Models to evaluate the transport and fate of pollutants in different environmental matrices and source/ pathway/receptor models are presented. Different methods for assessing risk (HHRA and ERA), with particular attention to the exposure assessment step, are discussed and compared (Tier I,II,III,IV level).

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94663 REMOTE SENSING AND ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNIQUES FOR RISK MONITORING 10

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  94664 - ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNIQUES FOR MONITORING STRUCTURES AND PROTECTING SYSTEMS ING-INF/02 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria della Sicurezza e Protezione dell'Informazione
The course provides the fundamental skills related to radar remote sensing and electromagnetic techniques for monitoring structures and protecting systems. In particular, approaches based on radar concepts, impedance and capacitance tomography, inverse scattering, and microwaves tomography will be discussed with particular reference to civil and environmental applications. Basic concepts of electromagnetic compatibility, including examples of electromagnetic interference, radiated and conducted emissions and susceptibility, crosstalk, shielding and system design will be provided.

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  94666 - REMOTE SENSING OF NATURAL DISASTERS ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria della Sicurezza e Protezione dell'Informazione
The course introduces the key concepts related to information extraction from remote sensing images in the framework of disaster risk prevention and assessment. Basic knowledge will be provided about remote sensing image acquisition through passive sensors; land cover mapping through remote sensing image classification in the application to risk prevention; detection of ground changes from multitemporal remote sensing images in the application to damage assessment; and data representation in a geographic information system (GIS).

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94673 MASTER THESIS 15 15 CFU PROVA FINALE Per la Prova Finale

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94674 STAGE 5 5 CFU ALTRE ATTIVITA' Tirocini Formativi e di Orientamento

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10 CFU tra i seguenti insegnamenti:
94669 CRITICAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURES MODELLING AND SIMULATION ING-IND/33 5 5 CFU A SCELTA A Scelta dello Studente
The course is focused on the modelling and simulation of critical energy infrastructures, such as smart grids, electricity production plants, electrical storage systems and transmission lines, considering also electrical system faults; the planning and the operation of the aforementioned energy infrastructures composed of different interconnected systems will be analyzed and the main characteristics of the electric system will be discussed.

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104394 RISK COMMUNICATION AND PERCEPTION M-PSI/06 5 5 CFU A SCELTA A Scelta dello Studente
The course will address the topic of risk from a psychosocial perspective, as it is perceived by stakeholders and as it is communicated among them. The adequate approach to risk will interpret the events with the proper perspective, allowing the system (i.e., the community, the political and technical administrators) to prevent or reduce the exposure to risk. The Resilience Engineering approach will be proposed, in order to enable the system to adjust its functions prior to, during, or following changes and disturbances, and thereby sustain required operations under both expected and unexpected conditions. In addition, the course will address the issue of risk communication with the community, both in proactive (risk awareness and preparedness) and reactive conditions (emergency management).

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94670 RISK IMPACT ASSESSMENT II: IMPACT OF EXTREME EVENTS ON THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT ICAR/09 5 5 CFU A SCELTA A Scelta dello Studente
The course will address the topic of seismic risk and emergency management. Starting from the basics of seismic hazard, seismic action and dynamic response of structural systems, the effects on environment and structures will be discussed, focusing on the concept of vulnerability of infrastructures, historical, modern buildings, urban aggregates. Evidence will be given to the filling of the forms for the damage, emergency provisions and practicability assessment of buildings and churches, finalized at the expeditious detection in the emergency phase following the earthquake.

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