Conveners:
Federica Barilaro (Univerisità della Calabria)
Sergio Cappucci (ENEA)
Luca Guerrieri (ISPRA)
Laura Sanna (CNR-IGAG)
In a context marked by accelerating climate change and intensifying anthropogenic pressures, environmental geology plays a central role in understanding, monitoring, and managing the complex interactions between natural processes and anthropic activities. Geological and geomorphological settings strongly influence the vulnerability of territories to natural hazards such as landslides, floods, subsidence, and coastal erosion, as well as to pollution and land degradation driven by human-induced impacts. Addressing these challenges requires an integrated, system-based approach capable of supporting sustainable land-use planning, risk mitigation strategies, and evidence-based policy making. This session aims to highlight recent scientific advances and technological innovations for the assessment, monitoring, and management of environmental processes and hazards. Contributions employing multi-temporal and multi-source datasets, including satellite-based Earth observation, in situ monitoring networks, and advanced geospatial analyses, combined with numerical and data-driven modeling approaches are encouraged. Particular emphasis is placed on artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to improve process understanding, hazard forecasting, and early warning systems development. Sustainable management of critical and strategic raw materials, protection and optimization of natural resources, and long-term support of territorial planning under changing environmental conditions that demonstrate how interdisciplinary approaches can bridge the gap between observation and decision-making are welcomed.