{"id":4330,"date":"2019-08-13T03:33:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T01:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaia.eu\/un-anno-dalla-tempesta-vaia\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T15:52:10","slug":"un-anno-dalla-tempesta-vaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaia.eu\/en\/un-anno-dalla-tempesta-vaia\/","title":{"rendered":"One year after the VAIA storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the night of 28 to 29 October 2018, the Atlantic wind collided with the sirocco and caused a rare climatic low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hurricane named &#8220;Vaia&#8221; hit northern Italy and was centered in the Trentino Alps, the Triveneto, the Prealps and parts of eastern Lombardy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was defined by the Sisef (Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology) as &lt;&lt;an unprecedented phenomenon in the last 50 years&gt;&gt;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its passage is tearing apart the Alpine ecosystem. In total, there are 8.7 million cubic meters of fallen timber covering an area of more than 41,000 hectares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winds reached peak values of 200 km\/h, and 800 cm of precipitation alone exceeded the floods of 1966.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The low-pressure area is part of the general phenomenon of bad weather over Italy in October-November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The damage is estimated to total amount of almost 3 billion (2,809,400,000).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An unprecedented phenomenon in Italy that represents a turning point in the history of our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The other side of climate change<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year has now passed since the storm, and it is still difficult to take stock of the actual damage caused by the passage of this Mediterranean hurricane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The parts of the forest that posed the greatest danger have now been cleared and the greatest damage to the infrastructure has been contained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, an estimated 40 per cent of the fallen trees are still waiting to be salvaged. A longer wait would lead to a further devaluation of the price per cubic meter, which had already fallen to a tenth of the market price immediately after the disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not to mention the costs for the communities. The affected forests will take several decades, if not centuries, to return to their original form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Time lapse of the event:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The VAIA cyclone is just one expression of the ongoing climate change that will become increasingly widespread in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In view of this fact and the torn Alpine landscapes, it is easy to feel despondency and despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, one can choose to be resilient and learn lessons from these events to implement prevention and environmental protection plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disasters can become new opportunities for social, ecological, and economic growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The affected areas have shown great resilience from the outset by implementing cooperative measures and innovative plans to recover from the disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the months that followed, for example, Pefc launched the &#8220;Solidarity Chain&#8221; to support the affected areas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The projects implemented include numerous measures that have a direct impact on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This included collecting and selling the tops of large fallen conifers as Christmas trees. The net proceeds were invested in seedlings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The creation of a solidary and certified supply chain makes it possible to rationalize and speed up timber harvesting that would otherwise be lost, minimizing losses for owners and increasing safety for workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The passing of VAIA is no accidental catastrophe: it is a message, a signal of suffering intended to awaken the collective conscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A warning that forces us to rethink our relationship with the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need to shift from a perspective of exploitation to one of synergy and resource recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We just must listen to this call and follow the winds of change towards a more sustainable world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curiosity: Why the name &#8216;Vaia&#8217;?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may have noticed that atmospheric phenomena are often given a name, as if to give them an identity. It is interesting to understand how this works and why this tradition has developed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although they may seem arbitrary, the names are selected according to a list of &#8220;reservations&#8221; to which the public has access by purchasing their own seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to this system, the names are distributed in alphabetical order and assigned to each event cyclically, starting with the first letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traditionally, the Institute of Meteorology at the Free University of Berlin is the main authority in Europe when it comes to deciding the names of weather events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are divided into low-pressure (cyclones) and high-pressure areas (anticyclones).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The price for a low-pressure range is 299 euros, and 199 euros for the high-pressure range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The process was developed as an original fundraising solution to finance the Ministry&#8217;s scientific research following the 2002 funding cuts (the funds required for sustainable and effective research were drastically reduced).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cyclone was named after VAIA Jakobs, manager of a multinational corporation in D\u00fcsseldorf. 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