The Tessina Landslide and the Civil Defence Plan.

Italian law provides that all the municipalities should have a Civil Defence Plan against major risk, and the Mayor is the local authority for Civil Defence. In April 1992 a dangerous mass movement named Tessina landslide caused a high-risk situation for two villages (Funes and Lamosano). On that occasion, adequate measures to safeguard the people exposed to the risk had to be considered, besides the need to monitor and check the movement evolution. The Ministry for Civil Defence assigned funds for the installation of a monitoring and warning systems and during critical events various automatic alarm levels can be determined (i.e. Pre-alarm, Normal Alarm, Serious Alarm). These different alarm levels are directly integrated in a Civil Defence Plan which includes evacuation of the population from the residential areas in case of possible dan-ger, by ensuring collaboration from several other boards and institutions.The Plan identifies the procedures to be activated in order to attain an optimised preparedness in case of re-activation of the landslide. This Plan provides the involvement of the national and local government offices, and volunteers, according to the out-line here reported. Such a plan may face any possible evolution of this phenomenon even in relation to its negative increase caused by current climate changes.