ROVIGO – The Adige Po Consortium together with the Order of Engineers of the Province of Rovigo present the conference “The Changing Risk”, an event included within the activities planned for the Reclamation Week and organized with the collaboration of Anbi Veneto and National Anbi.
The appointment is scheduled for Friday 24 May at 9.30 am at Palazzo Campo, via Verdi 12, Rovigo.
After the initial presentation by the general director of the Adige Po Consortium, Engineer Marco Volpin, follows the report by Annamaria Mazzoni of Cmcc Foundation the Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change “Climate challenges and adaptation in Italy and the Po District”.
We then proceed with the exposition of Marco Marani of the Center for Studies on the Impacts of Climate Change of the University of Padua: “The future is no longer what it once was: hydrogeological-hydraulic design”.
The morning continues with the description of concrete examples of urban hydraulic arrangement by Engineer Daniele Cecchettin and with the report by Engineer Giovanni Veronese, deputy director of Adige Po on “Interconnection between basins, element of resilience for reclamation networks”.
Concluding speech by Laura Montanari of the Ferrara Plain Reclamation Consortium with “The DSS – predictive and historical hydrological analysis tool”.
The comment of the general director of the Adige Po Consortium Marco Volpin: “The seminar on Friday 24th was organized in collaboration with the Professional Order of Engineers of the province of Rovigo.
It is aimed at those who study and intervene in the territory and want to address in an introductory way a very relevant topic for hydraulic design: how to take into account climate changes, now evident, in the study of hydraulic defense works or works that in any case case require a hydraulic risk assessment.
The hydraulic works managed by the Reclamation Consortium have a useful life that easily exceeds one hundred years. The question is: if the climate continues to change, how can we ensure that their action is effective throughout their lives?
The seminar will be attended in order, for the scientific part, by Dr. Annamaria Mazzoni, Cmcc Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Prof. Marco Marani, from the University of Padua – Center for studies on the impacts of changes climate.
For the technical part they will follow the engineer. Daniele Ceccolinfreelancer, engineer. Giovanni VeroneseAdige Po Reclamation Consortium and the engineer. Laura Montanari, Ferrara Plain Reclamation Consortium.
The events on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 May are part of Reclamation Week, an event that involves all the Italian Consortia through Anbi, the association that groups them together.
We chose this title for the event, Reclamation H24, to raise awareness among citizens – the consortium members – of the continuous (24/7) and sometimes invisible work that the Adige Po Reclamation Consortium carries out for the protection of the Polesine territory.
The events will take place over 24 hours in Piazza Garibaldi, the heart of the Rovigo capital. The choice of the “citizen” site is aimed at intercepting that part of people who, despite having heard of the Consortium, do not perfectly know its role of collective and general interest. This is because hydraulic regulation in a territory that is completely below the level of the two large rivers that delimit it, and largely below sea level, is preordained for any work and activity that takes place in the territory, from cultivation to high-tech services, from seaside tourism to cultural tourism, from simply living there to free time spent together. Just to give an example that can easily be linked to the event we are presenting: without the reclamation work today we would not be able to be in the square enjoying an aperitif listening to live music.”
The comment of the president of the Adige Po Consortium Roberto Branco “For the national reclamation week, in addition to a seminar aimed at technicians and professionals in collaboration with the professional association of engineers, we wanted to open the doors and involve the city with recreational/cultural initiatives to bring citizens closer to our operated and explain to them who we are and what we do every day all day, that is 24 hours a day: ours is a fundamental role not only for irrigation purposes and therefore for the interest of the agricultural world but for the benefit of the entire community.
In these days, among other things, we are honored to host in our offices numerous events of local bodies and institutions that have asked for our collaboration: from the Order of Journalists to the Breeders’ Association, demonstrating that the Consortium is an increasingly crucial reality and at the service of territorial needs.”
