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INTERMED

Funded under the Interreg Italy-France Maritime 2014-2020 program, the INTERMED project aimed to reduce the vulnerability to fire of urban-rural interface areas, that is, areas where infrastructure or human activities are in contact with forested areas.

The project

Lasting three years (May 2019-April 2022 then extended to July 2022), the project was divided into three main strands of action: identifying and mapping the risk in urban-rural interface zones; assessing the vulnerability of buildings in these areas; and, finally, fielding pilot interventions for risk reduction and management.

Results

  • Assessment of the hazard (Hazard) from forest fires in urban-rural interface areas
  • Identification and proposal of some possible interventions for forest fire fighting purposes for urban-rural interface fire risk reduction and self-protection for populations
  • Implementation of assessment tools in the REMOcRA platform

CIMA Research Foundation’s contribution

Within project, CIMA Research Foundation was the implementing party for the Liguria Region. It was responsible for preparing the feasibility study of a forest fire risk mitigation intervention in an urban-rural interface area for the municipality of Casarza Ligure. It was, in addition, in charge of drafting the report on the implementation of structural measures for risk reduction and self-protection of the population; in the report it was highlighted, for the purpose of replicability of the path that was experimented, how the municipality proceeded to implement some of the interventions proposed in the study drafted by CIMA Research Foundation aimed at the mitigation of the risk of forest fires in an urban-rural interface area and self-protection of the population.