Saving a World Treasure: Protecting Florence from Flooding
Saving a World Treasure: Protecting Florence from Flooding

Author: Gerald Edward Galloway Jr

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788892731530

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The Committee Firenze 2016, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the tragic 1966 flood, invited six engineers and scientists to form an International Technical Scientific Committee (ITSC) to assess the current status of flood protection for the city of Florence and identify steps to reduce the risk of flooding facing the city. In this final Report, ITSC concludes that Florence remains at risk to significant flooding and this risk grows each day. It is not a question of whether a flood of the magnitude of 1966 or greater will occur, but when. In fact, the level of protection that exists in Florence now is not on a level appropriate to the citizens and treasures that rest within the city. If, under current conditions, a 1966-like flood occurred, the consequences to human lives, treasures, properties and community infrastructure could be much more catastrophic than they were in 1966.

Saving a World Treasure: Protecting Florence from Flooding
Saving a World Treasure: Protecting Florence from Flooding

Author: Galloway, Gerald

Publisher: Firenze University Press

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 8864536779

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The Committee Firenze 2016, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the tragic 1966 flood, invited six engineers and scientists to form an International Technical Scientific Committee (ITSC) to assess the current status of flood protection for the city of Florence and identify steps to reduce the risk of flooding facing the city. In this final Report, ITSC concludes that Florence remains at risk to significant flooding and this risk grows each day. It is not a question of whether a flood of the magnitude of 1966 or greater will occur, but when. In fact, the level of protection that exists in Florence now is not on a level appropriate to the citizens and treasures that rest within the city. If, under current conditions, a 1966-like flood occurred, the consequences to human lives, treasures, properties and community infrastructure could be much more catastrophic than they were in 1966.

Prevention and Management of Soil Erosion and Torrential Floods
Prevention and Management of Soil Erosion and Torrential Floods

Author: Milutinovi?, Slobodan

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2021-12-31

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1799884619

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Soil erosion and torrential floods, as destructive processes, have serious implications on the economy, society, and environment. The severity of torrential floods lies in their sudden occurrence and high intensity, and hence, the defense against torrential floods is very complex and demanding. Much remains to be discovered about soil erosion and torrential floods prevention, management, legislation, practices, and solutions worldwide. Thus, a better understanding of various prevention and management developments on soil erosion and torrential floods across different contexts is needed to assess their impact on sustainability, especially in the changed climate conditions. Prevention and Management of Soil Erosion and Torrential Floods investigates the problems of erosion and torrential floods and opportunities for the prevention, management, and control of these destructive processes. It highlights the importance of the prevention and management practices of soil erosion and torrential floods with respect to the exchange of knowledge and best practices. Covering topics such as dam maintenance, wind erosion, and natural disasters, it is ideal for environmentalists, environmental engineers, crisis response specialists, policymakers, government officials, academicians, students, experts, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of soil erosion, torrential flood, environmental protection, sustainable development, engineering, and management.

Flood in Florence, 1966
Flood in Florence, 1966

Author: Paul Conway

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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"This volume consists of the expanded and edited proceedings of a symposium on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Florence Flood of 1966. The symposium took place on Thursday and Friday, November 3 and 4, 2016, on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. To the best of our knowledge, the symposium was the only academically oriented anniversary event in the world that has explored some of the implications of this distinctive natural disaster on the practices and perspectives of the preservation and conservation communities, as well as on education and training for several generations of preservation and conservation professionals. These proceedings are a selective lens on the five decades of progress made and the work to be done in these fields."--Introduction.

The Great Flood of Florence
The Great Flood of Florence

Author: Swietlan Kraczyna

Publisher: Syracuse University in Florence

Published: 2006-12-05

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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On November 4, 1966, Florence experienced the most devastating flood of its entire history, which crippled the city and destroyed many of the world’s art treasures. On that day, Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna, a twenty-six-year-old American artist living in Florence, went out into the flooded streets and photographed the dramatic unfolding events. Kraczyna was awarded the Fiorino d’Oro—the highest honor of the City of Florence—for ten of those photographs. This book presents, for the first time, a selection of eighty-four of Kraczyna’s flood photographs, taken on that tragic day and in the days that followed, as the city tried to deal with the immense disaster.

Diary of Florence in Flood
Diary of Florence in Flood

Author: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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The author describes being in Florence in a pension by the Arno River when it overflowed. She records the story of the flood and its aftermath in the four months after.

Dark Water
Dark Water

Author: Robert Clark

Publisher: Random House LLC

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 076792648X

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Describes the November 1966 flood that inundated the city of Florence and its devastating impact on some of the Western world's finest collections of art, and details the vast global efforts to preserve and restore the city's treasures in the wake of the flood. 40,000 first printing.

Flood in Florence, 1966
Flood in Florence, 1966

Author: Martha O'Hara Conway

Publisher: Maize Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781607854562

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"On November 4, 1966, the Arno River in Florence, Italy, flooded its banks, breaching the basements and first floors of museums, libraries, and private residences and burying centuries of books, manuscripts, and works of art in muck and muddy water. Flood in Florence, 1966 documents a symposium held to mark the 50th anniversary of a natural disaster that served as an impetus for the modern library and museum conservation professions. The proceedings feature illustrated, first-person remembrances of the flood; papers on book conservation, the conservation of works of art, disaster preparedness and response, and the continuing needs for education and training; and a keynote that points toward a future where original artifacts and digital technologies intersect. Providing new insights on a touchstone event by three generations of preservation and conservation professionals, the proceedings deepen our understanding of major advances in conservation practice and shed light on some of the most important lessons from those advances for future generations and the digital age."--back cover.

Backpacker
Backpacker

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2007-09

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.