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Opening Session

John J. Clague Preparing for Catastrophes: Insights Provided by the Tsunami of December 26, 2004
Sylvi Haldorsen Mega-floods in Africa: Report from the Dark Nature Workshop in Mozambique, November 2004
Nils-Axel Mörner Natural Disasters in the Past and in our Super-Vulnerable Present-to-Future
Stephen G. Wells Rapid Changes in Landscape Dynamics: Separating Natural from Human-Induced Causes in Order to Develop Mitigation Strategies for Landscape Degradation

Rapid Climatic Change, Palaeoenvironmental Studies and Cultural Response A

Monica Andrade-Morraye Invertebrate Remains from Lago Di Vico
Sabrina Capelletti Study of Recent Sediments in the City of Como (Northern Italy): Multidisciplinary Analysis and Implication for the Environmental Evolution of the Area
Valerio Comerci The Subsidence of Como: Human Impact or Natural Tendency?
Savino di Lernia Holocene Rapid Climate Changes and Social Responses in Marginal Environments: Cross-disciplinary Evidence from the Acacus Mts. (Libyan Sahara)
Glen M. MacDonald Prolonged Severe Drought in Western North America: Prognosis and Lessons from the Past
Franco Ortolani Natural, Rapid and Cyclical Climatic-Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Area and Human Responses During the Last 3000 Years
Eduardo L. Piovano Recurring Flooding Events During the Holocene in the South American Extratropics: Laguna Mar Chiquita, Argentina
Sabina Rossi Impact of Holocene Explosive Activity of Etna Volcano (Italy) Estimated by Pollen Analysis of Marine Sediments
Verushka Valsecchi Climate and Land-use Phases around the Alps: A Case Study from Lago Lucone (Northern Italy)
Andrea Zerboni The Drying of the Garat Ouda lake (SW Fezzan, Central Sahara): A Dramatic Effect of the Middle Holocene Climatic Change on Landscape and Human Occupation

Rapid Climatic Change, Palaeoenvironmental Studies and Cultural Response B

Sebastien Bertrand Evolution of the Sedimentary Infilling of the Hersek Lagoon (Turkey, Izmit Gulf): Possible Relationships with Tsunamis in the Marmara Sea
Lanfredo Castelletti Charcoal Studies as Means to Record Wood Fire Catastrophes and Abrupt Changes in Vegetation: A Balance Between Nature and Human Activity
Mauro Cremaschi Over-exploitation of Resources and a Possible Climatic Co-factor in the Collapse of the Terramare Culture (Middle and Late Bronze Age, Northern Italy)
Anselmo Pizzala Lake Como (Lario): Innatural Trophic Level Trend Due to Pollution
John Ridgway Sea Level Rise, Coastal Processes and Human Response
Laura Sadori Pollen and Charcoal Evidence for Human Responses to Climate Change in Mediterranean Environments
Eutizio Vittori Natural Calamites in the Latin Authors of Roman Age and the CLEMENS Project

Environmental Hazards and Societal Vulnerability

Domenico Berti Surface Rupturing at Mt. Etna Volcano: Consequences on Environment and Human Activities
Daniela Fanetti The Tsunami Risk in Lake Como (Italy)
Luca Ferreli Capable Faults of the Eastern Etna Region and Reduction of their Environmental Hazard: An Application of the ITHACA database
Gianluca Groppelli Preliminary Volcanic Hazard Evaluation on Mount Etna (Italy) Based on Geological Map and GIS Analyses
Fekri Hassan The Dark Side of the Nile: Catastrophic Nile Floods and Human Respones in Ancient and Historical Times in Egypt
Salomon B. Kroonenberg Rapid Caspian Sea Level Change, and How to Prepare for Natures Trend Breaks
Alfonsa Milia Debris Avalanches and Cryptodomes Offshore Vesuvius (Italy): Consequences on the Natural Environment
Nicoletta Morello The 1669 Mt. Etna Eruption: Scientific and Social Reactions
Achimo Mussa The Impact of Mega-floods in Mozambique
Gianluca Norini Recent Left-oblique Slip Faulting in the Toluca City Area (Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt). Seismic and Volcanic Hazard Implications
Franco Ortolani Tsunami and Rapid Catastrophic Environmental Change. The Hazard Along the Italian Coastal Area
Manfred Thuering Assessment of Heavy Rainfall-induced Natural Hazards in Alpine environments: The Experience of the Interreg III-B Project CatchRisk
Andrea Uttini Geotechnical Characterization and Modeling, Via Particle Method, of the Sciara del Fuoco Volcanic Debris, Stromboli Island, Italy
Crescenzo Violante Flood-dominated Fan Delta System Induced by the A.D. 79 Somma-Vesuvius Eruption at Amalfi Coast, Southern Italy

Earthquake Ground Effects, Seismic Hazard, and the INQUA Scale Project

Kervin Chunga Seismic Hazard Assessment for Guayaquil City (Ecuador): Insights from Quaternary Geological Data
Kervin Chunga The 12 Dic, 1953, Earthquake, Ms 7.3, Ecuador-Peru border region: A Case Study for Applying the New INQUA Intensity Scale
Yolanda Zamudio Diaz Applying the INQUA Scale to Some Historical and Recent Peruvian Earthquakes
Eliana Esposito INQUA intensity Scale Evaluation for the 1980 Southern Italy "Historical" Earthquake
Anna Fokaefs Testing the New INQUA Intensity Scale in Greek Earthquakes
Francesca Giardina Seismic Hazard Assessment for a High Populated and Industrialized Area: The Case of the Insubria Region (Lombardian Southern Alps, Italy)
Luca Guerrieri The Database of Coseismic Environmental Effects as a Tool for Earthquake Intensity Assessment within the INQUA EEE Scale Project
Elisa Joy Kagan Damaged Cave Deposits Record 200, 000 Years of Paleoseismicity: Dead Sea Transform Region
Franz Livio Geological Evidence of Quaternary Tectonic Activity as a Tool for the Evaluation of the Seismic Potential of a Region: Some Preliminary Results on Castenedolo, Ciliverghe and Capriano Folds (BS)-(Northern Po Plain, Italy)
Alessandro M. Michetti Dark Nature and Paleoseismology: Understanding the Seismic Landscape of the Southern Alps, Italy
George Papathanassiou Using the INQUA Scale for the Assessment of Intensity: Case Study of 14/08/2003 Lefkada Earthquake, Greece
Leonello Serva Dark Nature: Examples from Italy
Giancanio Sileo Reverse Faulting Between the "Gonfolite Lombarda" and Pliocene Marine Clays at Monte Morello (Novazzano, Ticino): Remarks on the Chronology of Compressional Tectonics in the Southern Alps, and Implications for Seismic Hazard Assessment in the Insubria Region
Ruben Tatevossian Study of the Verny, 1887, Earthquake in Central Asia: Using Environmental Effects to Scale the Intensity

Sustainability, Land Use, and Rapid Environmental Change

Thomas Heyd Rapid Natural Change, Human Response, and the Role of Culture
Suzanne Leroy Rapid Environmental Changes and Civilisation Collapse: Can We Learn from Them?
David Ludlow Sustainability Policy and Rapid Natural Change
Federico Aligi Pasquarè Monitoring Media Coverage of Natural Hazards in Italy
Andrea Piccin The role of Knowledge in the Territorial Governance
Ezio Vaccari Natural Catastrophic Events, Historical Records and the Development of Scientific Knowledge

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