A “simulation chain” to define a Multidisciplinary Decision Support System for landslide risk management in pyroclastic soils

"This paper proposes a Multidisciplinary Decision. Support System (MDSS) as an approach to manage rainfallinduced. shallow landslides of the flow type (flowslides) in. pyroclastic deposits. We stress the need to combine information. from the fields of meteorology, geology, hydrology,. geotechnics and economics to support the agencies engaged. in land monitoring and management. The MDSS consists. of a “simulation chain” to link rainfall to effects in terms of. infiltration, slope stability and vulnerability. This “simulation. chain” was developed at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre. for Climate Change (CMCC) (meteorological aspects), at the. Geotechnical Laboratory of the Second University of Naples. (hydrological and geotechnical aspects) and at the Department. of Economics of the University of Naples “Federico. II” (economic aspects). The results obtained from the application. of this simulation chain in the Cervinara area during. eleven years of research allowed in-depth analysis of the. mechanisms underlying a flowslide in pyroclastic soil."