SACCHINI A.

A critical pluviometric event occurred in the central-eastern Ligurian Riviera, 15 km from Genoa, on 1 June 2007. This event caused landslides and hydraulic problems between Sori and Camogli and in the inland area of the Recco Valley. An analysis of the heavy rainfall was conducted. Hourly precipitation data revealed a critical event...

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Over the past century the municipal area of Genoa has been affected by recurring flood events and several landslides that have caused severe damage to urbanized areas on both the coastal-fluvial plains and surrounding slopes, sometimes involving human casualties. The analysis of past events' annual distribution indicates that these phenomena...

The Tyrrhenian slope of Liguria extends along the coast, from West to East, for nearly 300 km between Ventimiglia to Marinella di Sarzana: this stretch of territory presents more than a hundred catchments mainly characterized by small-size floodplains, usually less than 1 km2. Ligurian catchments, except for the Roja and the Magra rivers, have...

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Toponymy is a linguistic discipline, which has already been used as a tool for geographical studies in Italy and particularly in Liguria. Geographical studies have already classified the toponyms in several categories: physical geography, human geography and socio-economic geography. By selecting the place names connected to physical geography,...