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NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
Volume 21, Issue 10, Pages 3097-3112Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-21-3097-2021
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The Naples coastal area has three active volcanoes, which have been popular settlement sites since ancient times. However, the high volcanic risk in the area remains without a systematic strategy for mitigation.
The presence of three active volcanoes (Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ischia island) along the coast of Naples did not contain the huge expansion of the urbanized zones around them. In contrast, since the Greco-Roman era, volcanoes have featured among the favourite sites for people colonizing the Campania region. The stable settlements around Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei caldera and Ischia were progressively enlarged, attaining a maximum growth rate between 1950 and 1980. Between 1982 and 1984, Neapolitans faced the last and most dramatic volcanic crises, which occurred at Campi Flegrei (Pozzuoli) without an eruption. Since that time, volcanologists have focused their attention on the problem of risks associated with eruptions in the Neapolitan area, but a systematic strategy to reduce the very high volcanic risk of this zone is still lacking. A brief history of volcanic risk in the Neapolitan district is narrated here in an effort to provide new food for thought for the scientific community that works for the mitigation of volcanic risk in this area.
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