naa a22 4500 510774490 CHVBK 20180411083225.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12210-012-0212-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12210-012-0212-2 Vesuvius: volcanic hazard and civil defense [Elektronische Daten] [Benedetto De Vivo, Giuseppe Rolandi] The volcano Vesuvius presents a most serious hazard in terms of human and property risk considering that there are at least 600,000 people exposed on its slopes, according to the figures given by the Italian Civil Defense Authority (DPC), on which the present Risk Zones delimitation is based. The DPC has divided the territory around Vesuvius into three zones: The Red Zone, the area with the highest hazard and volcanic risk due to pyroclastic flows; the Yellow Zone, the area affected by the risk of fall-out deposits; and the Blue Zone, the area prone to mud flow and lahar deposits. The DPC, in its official documents, states that administrative rather than scientific criteria was used to delimit such risk zones because of logistic and operative needs related to the emergency plan management. We question the decision of the DPC and present the scientific criteria, which should be used to delimit the volcanic risk zones and suggest changes that are necessary for the protection of the inhabitants at risk. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2012 Vesuvius nationallicence Volcanological risk nationallicence Plinian eruptions nationallicence Inter-plinian eruptions nationallicence Eruption forecasting nationallicence De Vivo Benedetto Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e delle Risorse, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134, Naples, Italy aut Rolandi Giuseppe Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e delle Risorse, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134, Naples, Italy aut Rendiconti Lincei Springer Milan 24/1(2013-03-01), 39-45 2037-4631 24:1<39 2013 24 12210 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-012-0212-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-012-0212-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- De Vivo Benedetto Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e delle Risorse, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134, Naples, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rolandi Giuseppe Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e delle Risorse, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134, Naples, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Rendiconti Lincei Springer Milan 24/1(2013-03-01), 39-45 2037-4631 24:1<39 2013 24 12210 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer