Territorial vulnerability analysis: the case studies

This is the second of three papers presented by the Politecnico di Milano. The papers present the first results of the European research project QUATER ("QUARTER" TERritorial QUAlity, territorial risk management systems of municipality", project INTERREG IIIB MEDOC, research group of Politecnico di Milano coordinated by Maria Cristina Treu). The research aim is the development of a territorial management system for territorial risk decrease/reduction (natural and anthropogenic risks) and quality improvement. This paper presents the critical aspects and results which have come out of the first applications of the vulnerability assessment method proposed. The method has been applied on three Municipalities localised in the Lombardy Region (northern part of Italy). The research tests the procedure manual of the territorial risks/quality management by case studies.