Research: Departments

Environment, Health and Safety

Founded in June 2004, the Department of Environment, Health and Safety is an Interfaculty Department, drawing upon the contributions of many teachers and researchers from a wide array of disciplines: Sanitary-Environmental Engineering, Hydraulics, Medicine of Catastrophes, Ecology-Natural Sciences, Corporate and Environmental Law, Physics, Engineering, and Theoretical Physics. The strong interdisciplinary aspect of the Department facilitates many research and study opportunities, as well as building and reinforcing its positive and productive relationships with local and national governments and local and multinational companies.

Presently, the Department is engaged in the following fields of research:

Environmental Field:

1. Environmental Planning and Management (water-air-solid wastes) (Conti Fabio)
2. Technologies for environment (Urbini Giordano)
3. Hydraulic – Risk for the territory (Espa Paolo)
4. Planning and management of parks and natural resources (Tosi Guido)
5. Reclamation of contaminated sites - Effects of polluting agents on agricultural cultivations (Bracale Marcella)

Safety Field:

1. Planning and management of industrial safety (Conti Fabio - Torretta Vincenzo)
2. Control of the risks of relevant accidents (Conti Fabio - Torretta Vincenzo)
3. Technologies for safety (Urbini Giordano - Di Girolamo Casto)
4. Safety in the constructions (Papa Enrico)

Health-Safety Field:

1. Sanitary medicine of catastrophes and emergencies (Chiaranda Maurizio)
2. Electromagnetic and radiations pollution (Moschella Ugo)
3. Hygiene and Industrial Toxicology

Intersectorial (Environment-Health-Safety):

1. Legal discipline for environment and safety (Diverio Davide - Salvatore Vincenzo)
2. Systems for environment and energy (Urbini Giordano – Morosini Cristiana)
3. International cooperation on the topics Environment-Health-Safety (Urbini Giordano - Stella Stefano)