IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jgeogr/v2y2022i3p23-378d847155.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Assessing the Morphological Quality of the Calore River (Southern Italy)

Author

Listed:
  • Paolo Magliulo

    (Department of Sciences and Technologies, University of Sannio, 82100 Benevento, Italy)

  • Sofia Sessa

    (Department of Sciences and Technologies, University of Sannio, 82100 Benevento, Italy)

  • Angelo Cusano

    (Department of Sciences and Technologies, University of Sannio, 82100 Benevento, Italy)

  • Marika Beatrice

    (Department of Sciences and Technologies, University of Sannio, 82100 Benevento, Italy)

  • Alberto Giannini

    (Inter University Centre for the Prediction and Prevention of Major Hazards (C.U.G.RI.), 84084 Fisciano, Italy)

  • Filippo Russo

    (Department of Sciences and Technologies, University of Sannio, 82100 Benevento, Italy)

Abstract

As highlighted by the EU Water Framework Directive from 2000, the hydromorphology of a stream, besides water quality and biological aspects, is one of the main elements to be evaluated to correctly assess its ecological state. Notwithstanding this, there are no such studies in peninsular Southern Italy. This study provides a contribution to filling this gap by assessing the morphological quality of one of the major rivers of this area, i.e., the Calore River, by using the IDRAIM method. The latter presents the advantage of taking into account the specific Italian context in terms of channel adjustments and human pressures, together with pre-existing geomorphological approaches developed in other countries. The method is based on data obtained by means of GIS analysis, remote sensing, and field survey. The analysis provided encouraging results, highlighting the good morphological quality of the Calore River. To maintain such quality, accurate monitoring of the human activities and/or careful planning of structures that could negatively affect the river’s morphological quality is unquestionably needed. The Calore River morphological quality seems to be controlled by artificiality rather than by the channel changes experienced since the 1950s. The results will be fundamental for already planned studies dealing with flood hazard and risk assessment.

Suggested Citation

  • Paolo Magliulo & Sofia Sessa & Angelo Cusano & Marika Beatrice & Alberto Giannini & Filippo Russo, 2022. "Assessing the Morphological Quality of the Calore River (Southern Italy)," Geographies, MDPI, vol. 2(3), pages 1-25, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jgeogr:v:2:y:2022:i:3:p:23-378:d:847155
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7086/2/3/23/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7086/2/3/23/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Luigi Guerriero & Mariano Focareta & Gennaro Fusco & Raffaele Rabuano & Francesco M. Guadagno & Paola Revellino, 2018. "Flood hazard of major river segments, Benevento Province, Southern Italy," Journal of Maps, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(2), pages 597-606, November.
    2. Paolo Magliulo & Angelo Cusano, 2016. "Geomorphology of the Lower Calore River alluvial plain (Southern Italy)," Journal of Maps, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(5), pages 1119-1127, October.
    3. Helene Müller & Stephan Hörbinger & Fabian Franta & Ana Mendes & Jianhua Li & Ping Cao & Baiyin Baoligao & Fengran Xu & Hans Peter Rauch, 2022. "Hydromorphological Assessment as the Basis for Ecosystem Restoration in the Nanxi River Basin (China)," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-16, January.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Rita Tufano & Luigi Guerriero & Mariagiulia Annibali Corona & Giuseppe Cianflone & Diego Di Martire & Fabio Ietto & Alessandro Novellino & Concetta Rispoli & Claudia Zito & Domenico Calcaterra, 2023. "Multiscenario flood hazard assessment using probabilistic runoff hydrograph estimation and 2D hydrodynamic modelling," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 116(1), pages 1029-1051, March.
    2. Gianna Ida Festa & Luigi Guerriero & Mariano Focareta & Giuseppe Meoli & Silvana Revellino & Francesco Maria Guadagno & Paola Revellino, 2022. "Calculating Economic Flood Damage through Microscale Risk Maps and Data Generalization: A Pilot Study in Southern Italy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-21, May.
    3. Gerardo Grelle & Antonietta Rossi & Paola Revellino & Luigi Guerriero & Francesco Maria Guadagno & Giuseppe Sappa, 2019. "Assessment of Debris-Flow Erosion and Deposit Areas by Morphometric Analysis and a GIS-Based Simplified Procedure: A Case Study of Paupisi in the Southern Apennines," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-20, April.
    4. Antonio Santo & Nicoletta Santangelo & Giovanni Forte & Melania De Falco, 2017. "Post flash flood survey: the 14th and 15th October 2015 event in the Paupisi-Solopaca area (Southern Italy)," Journal of Maps, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(2), pages 19-25, November.
    5. Gheorghe Romanescu & Catalin I. Cimpianu & Alin Mihu-Pintilie & Cristian C. Stoleriu, 2017. "Historic flood events in NE Romania (post-1990)," Journal of Maps, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(2), pages 787-798, November.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jgeogr:v:2:y:2022:i:3:p:23-378:d:847155. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.