{"id":1564,"date":"2026-09-10T02:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/?page_id=1564"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:27:17","slug":"regione-lombardia-foreste-protezione","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/projects\/regione-lombardia-foreste-protezione\/","title":{"rendered":"Lombardy Region \u2013 Direct protection forests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>2024\u20132026 \u00b7 Lombardy Region \u00b7 University of Milan<\/strong><br><strong>Scientific lead: Alessio Cislaghi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<!-- forestlab-project-image:start -->\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large forestlab-project-main-image\">\n<img width=\"600\" height=\"400\"\nsrc=\"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-33-regione-lombardia-foreste-protezione.jpg\"\nalt=\"Boulder stopped by trees in a protection forest\"\nclass=\"wp-image-1826\"\n\/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: LWF Bayern \u00b7 Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lwf.bayern.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LWF Bayern<\/a><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<!-- forestlab-project-image:end -->\n\n\n<p>The project develops methods to identify, characterise and map forests that directly protect people, buildings and infrastructure from avalanches, rockfall, shallow landslides and debris flows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A simplified regional method integrates forest maps, natural hazards and exposed assets, while an advanced approach combines field surveys, remote sensing and spatially distributed modelling to compare scenarios with and without forest cover and quantify protective effectiveness. Results support forest planning and silvicultural guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related research lines:<\/strong> <a href=\"\/en\/protection-forests-hydrogeological-hazards\/\">Protection forests and hydrogeological hazards<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/en\/monitoring-remote-sensing-forest-modelling\/\">Monitoring, remote sensing and forest modelling<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Planned outputs:<\/strong> Regional mapping methodology, management guidelines, spatial database and maps of forests with direct protection functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024\u20132026 \u00b7 Lombardy Region \u00b7 University of MilanScientific lead: Alessio Cislaghi The project develops methods to identify, characterise and map forests that directly protect people, buildings and infrastructure from avalanches, rockfall, shallow landslides and debris flows. A simplified regional method integrates forest maps, natural hazards and exposed assets, while an advanced approach combines field surveys, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":1826,"parent":570,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1564","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1564\/revisions\/1829"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}