Venice can tackle the challenges posed by climate change through an integrated approach to the resilience of coastal communities facing natural disasters. The research project “Prioritization of Resilience Initiatives for Climate-Related Disasters in the Metropolitan City of Venice” has won the tenth edition of the Aspen Institute Italia Award 2025 for scientific and research collaboration between Italy and the United States. This study, at the forefront of environmental science, engineering, and climatology, provides tools to assess the resilience of coastal communities to natural disasters, using a methodology tested in the Venice area.
The project involved a multidisciplinary research team made up of Italian experts from Ca’ Foscari University of Veniceand the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, alongside researchers from the United States—particularly from the University of Virginia, Carnegie Mellon University, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—specialized in disaster risk and resilience.
The award ceremony was preceded by the panel discussion “Scientific Progress for the Management of Natural Disasters” (video in Italian below).