Lattari mountains
Italy
The area includes 32 municipalities. The “Amalfi coast” and the “Sorrento coast” are world-famous for the beauty of their coastal environmental. The cultural heritage of this area is globally recognized as well; a best practice largely characterizing the landscape is the art of dry-stone walling inscribed in 2018 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Millions of foreign tourists (vs about 200,000 inhabitants) are hosted in the area each year.
Investigated climate extremes
The population and assets are under severe threat from weather conditions. Effects include: debris flows; flash floods in very small, orographically complex basins; rock slides and falls onto roads and railways; hail and storms over crops; and forest fires (often human-induced but aggravated by dry soil and heatwaves).
Main needs
- To improve the assessment and the observation of weather forcing and associated impacts on the ground.
- To make stakeholders more aware of the risks (in a special way, tourists completely unfamiliar with such hazards).
- To support climate-proofing design and planning.
Safe Haven – Landslides
Play wisely, beat the odds, and keep your city safe.
In southern Italy’s Campania Region — and in every place where landslides threaten lives and landscapes — The HuT is turning risk awareness into a game. “Safe Haven – Landslides” is a board game designed for high school students and curious adults to explore how decisions, planning, and chance shape a city’s resilience to landslide hazards.
Developed within the philosophy of The Human-Tech Nexus: Building a Safe Haven to Cope with Climate Extremes (The HuT), the game transforms complex concepts of disaster risk reduction (DRR) into an interactive learning experience. Players take on the role of decision-makers managing a city under threat. Each round challenges them to allocate limited resources, reduce hazard, exposure, and vulnerability, and adapt to the unpredictable effects of climate change and urbanisation.
By combining play, strategy, and reflection, Safe Haven – Landslides helps participants understand the delicate balance between prevention costs and the price of inaction. It enhances disaster risk literacy—the ability to interpret, use, and act on risk information—and promotes dialogue among students, citizens, and policymakers.
Beyond the game, DEM3’s work also includes the development of local monitoring networks, a decision-support platform for authorities, and training activities to strengthen community preparedness.
Tested at Futuro Remoto (Naples and Salerno) and the EGU 2024–2025 conferences, the game has proven both scientifically sound and engaging, showing that resilience can be learned — and played.
In Safe Haven, foresight and strategy determine survival. In real life, they build safer, more resilient communities.
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Articles / February 27, 2024
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