Scira Menoni

ICAR/20 - Urban and regional planning

Presently full professor at the Politecnico di Milano-Italy, she teaches also at a Specialization Certificate at the Geneva University-Switzerland.

Recent research experiences in a number of EU funded projects: currently coordinating the Lode project (Loss Data Enhancement for DRR and CCA Management), and previously on the same topic Idea project (Improving Damage assessments to Enhance cost-benefit Analyses) both funded by DG-ECHO and has been leading a partners’ unit in a Horizon 2020 EDUCEN (European Disasters in Urban centres: a Culture Expert Network 3C – Cities, Cultures, Catastrophes). In the context of scientific international cooperation she has participated to the Alfa program with Central America and to a networking EU-Mexico initiative (Red sobre riesgo y vulnerabilidad: estrategias sociales de prevencion y adaptacion).

Through university/public administration agreements she has and still is consulting governmental agencies on risk mitigation and management related issues, such as with the Regional Governments of the Emilia Romagna Region, the Lombardia Region on critical infrastructures, she was the coordinator of the committee to develop the Risk Prevention Plan and the Emergency Management Plan of the Milano Province. More recently she has been consulting for the Po Riverbasin Authority and still is for the Umbria Region in the context of the interdisciplinary and interdepartmental GRID Group collaboration, that was also granted a Polisocial Award in 2013.

Recent publications: Boni M.P., S. Menoni, F. Pergalani, Domino and cascading effects in complex events and territorial contexts, accepted in Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica e Applicata; Menoni S., Integrated knowledge in climate change adaptation and risk mitigation to support planning for reconstruction, in Galderisi A. e A. Colucci (eds.), Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for A Climate-Sensitive Urban Development, Springer, 2018; Margottini C., S. Menoni, Hazard Assessment, in P. Bobrovsky (ed.) Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology, Springer, 2018; Wantim M., C. Bonadonna, C. Gregg, S. Menoni, C. Frischknecht, M. Kervyn, S. Ayonghe, Forensic assessment of the 1999 Mount Cameroon eruption, West-Central Africa, Journal of Physical Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 358, pp. 13-30, 2018; Menoni, S.(Lead Author); Bondonna, C.; Garcia Fernandez, M.; Schwarze, R. Recording disaster losses for improving risk modelling capacities. In Poljansek K., M. Martin Ferrer, T. De Groeve, I. Clark (eds.) “Science for disaster risk management 2017. Knowing better and losing less”, European Commission, DG-JRC – ISBN:978-92-79-60678-6, 2017; Mejri O., S. Menoni, K. Matias, N. Aminoltaheri, (2017) Crisis information to support spatial planning in post disaster recovery, in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 22.