The research group deals with the analysis, monitoring and management of geomorphological risks, considering in particular risks related to evolutionary geomorphological processes in mountain and coastal areas, with a main focus on slope instability, fluvial and coastal flooding and erosion, landscape and subsurface evolution in karst areas.

The research is carried out through integrated innovative monitoring of landslides, aimed at defining significant field parameters. Additional research activity deals with the and at developing generation of evolutionary geological-technical models and of cause-effect relations to study slope instability phenomena.

Fluvial hazard is mainly focused on dynamic rivers (e.g. braided rivers, mountain rivers) and high-magnitude events that could lead to major changes of the fluvial landscape (e.g. notable channel widening) and very intense sediment transport (e.g. debris floods).

Analyses of coastal landscape dynamics are carried out through field observations, laboratory analyses of soil samples and eco-morphodynamic modelling. The activities carried out by the research groups also include sensorial and instrumental development and engineering of monitoring systems.

Karstic and speleogenetic processes are investigated in different geological and climatic contexts, using advanced survey techniques, environmental monitoring and computer modelling.

Professors coordinating and developing projects related to this research pathway: Simone Bizzi,  Jacopo Boaga, Filippo Catani, Andrea D'Alpaos, Alvise Finotello, Alessandro Fontana, Massimiliano Ghinassi, Paolo Mozzi, Valerio Olivetti, Ascanio Rosi, Francesco Sauro, Nicola Surian