Francesco FACCINI

Research personnel
Research associate
faccini (at) unige.it
Strada delle Cacce, 73 10165, Torino
Torino


elenco pubblicazioni nel triennio 2021-2023:

  • Ferrando A., Bosino A., Bonino E., Coratza P., Faccini F. (2023) - Geomorphology and geoheritage in the Piana Crixia Natural Park (NW Italy). Journal of Maps, 19:1, DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2023.2257731
  • Paliaga G., Ferrando A., Brandolini P., Coratza P., Faccini F. (2023) - Morphometric Analysis of Trail Network and Tourist Vulnerability in a Highly Frequented Protected Area. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 12, 445. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12110445
  • Ferrando A., Mangano S., Piana P., Faccini F. (2023)- Heat waves and physiological discomfort: the strange case of the year 2022 on the “Kiss Pass” of Portofino Natural Park (Italy). Weather, https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4462.
  • Turconi L., Bono B., Faccini F., Luino F. (2023) - Anthropic Constraint Dynamics in European Western Mediterranean Floodplains Related to Floods Events. Remote Sens., 15, 4798. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15194798
  • Mandarino A., Faccini F., Luino F., Bono B., Turconi L. (2023) - Integrated Approach for the Study of Urban Expansion and River Floods Aimed at Hydrogeomorphic Risk Reduction. Remote Sens.,15, 4158. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15174158
  • 6.      Godone D., Allasia P., Notti D., Baldo M., Poggi F., Faccini F. (2023) - Coexistence of a Marginal Mountain Community with Large-Scale and Low Kinematic Landslide: The Intensive Monitoring Approach. Remote Sens., 15, 3238.
  • Clemente J.A., Spizzichino, D., Leoni G.,Vojinovic Z., Faccini F. (2023) - Rockfall susceptibility analysis throgh 3D simulations in marine protected areas of the Portofino coastline: case studies of San Fruttuoso and Paraggi bays. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 82(4), 122
  • Piana P., Faccini F. (2023) - The ‘Deluge’ of 25 October 1822 in Genoa, Italy. Weather,  4 April 2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4388
  • Clemente J.A., Uriarte J.A., Spizzichino D., Faccini F., Morales T. (2023) – Rockfall hazard mitigation in coastal environment using dune protection: a nature based solution case on Barinatxe beach (Basque Coast, northern Spain). Engineering Geology, 314.
  • Ferrando A., Faccini F., Paliaga G., Coratza P. (2022) – Geosites and geological landscapes of Liguria (Italy). Journal of Maps, DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2022.2145919
  • Luino F., De Graff J., Biddoccu M., Faccini F., Freppaz M., Roccati A., Ungaro F., D’Amico M., Turconi L. (2022) - The Role of Soil Type in Triggering Shallow Landslides in the Alps (Lombardy, Northern Italy).Land, 11, 1125. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081125
  • Balbi E., Ferretti G., Ferrando A., Faccini F., Crispini L., Cianfarra P., Scafidi D., Barani S., Tosi S., Terrone M. (2022) - CAPS: A New Method for the Identification of Different Surface Displacements in Landslide and Subsidence Environments through Correlation Analysis on Persistent Scatterers Time-Series from PSI. Remote Sens., 14, 3791. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14153791
  • Paliaga G., Luino F., Turconi L., Profeta M., Vojinovic Z., Cucchiaro S., Faccini F. (2022) - Terraced Landscapes as NBSs for Geo-Hydrological Hazard Mitigation: Towards a Methodology for Debris and Soil Volume Estimations through a LiDAR Survey. Remote Sens., 14, 3586. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14153586
  • Paliaga G., Ward S.N., Luino F., Turconi L., Faccini F. (2022) - Cap 36, The 1915 Mud-Debris Flow at San Fruttuoso Di Camogli: Modeling the Collapse Effects in the Portofino Pilot Area of the H2020 Reconect Project. In: P. Gourbesville and G. Caignaert (eds.), Advances in Hydroinformatics, Springer Water, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1600-7_36, 573-589
  • Allasia P., Baldo M., Faccini F., Godone D., Notti D., Poggi F. (2021) - The Role of Measure of Deep-Seated Displacements in the Monitoring Networks on Large-Scale Landslide. In: Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk, WLF 2020 ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction, Vol. 3 Monitoring and Early Warning (N. Casagli et al. eds.), Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021, 49-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60311-3_4
  • Coratza P., Bollati I.M., Panizza V., Brandolini P., Castaldini D., Cucchi F., Deiana G., Del Monte M., Faccini F., Finocchiaro F., Gioia D., Melis R., Minopoli,C., Nesci O., Paliaga G., Pennetta M., Perotti L., Pica A., Tognetto F., Trocciola A., Valentini L., Giardino M., Pelfini M. (2021) - Advances in Geoheritage Mapping: Application to Iconic Geomorphological Examples from the Italian Landscape. Sustainability, 13, 11538. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011538
  • Ferrando A., Faccini F., Paliaga G., Coratza P. (2021) - A Quantitative GIS and AHP Based Analysis for Geodiversity Assessment and Mapping. Sustainability, 13, 10376. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131810376
  • Balbi E., Terrone M., Faccini F., Scafidi D., Barani S., Tosi S., Crispini L., Cianfarra P., Poggi F., Ferretti G. (2021) - Persistent Scatterer Interferometry and Statistical Analysis of Time-Series for Landslide Monitoring: Application to Santo Stefano d’Aveto (Liguria, NW Italy). Remote Sens., 13, 3348. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13173348
  • Faccini F., Luino F., Paliaga G., Roccati A., Turconi L. (2021) - Flash Flood Events along the West Mediterranean Coasts: Inundations of Urbanized Areas Conditioned by Anthropic Impacts. Land,10, 620. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10060620
  • Terrone M., Piana P., Paliaga G., D’Orazi M., Faccini F. (2021) - Coupling Historical Maps and LiDAR Data to Identify Man-Made Landforms in Urban Areas. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10, 349. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10050349
  • Ferrando A., Faccini F., Poggi F., Coratza P. (2021) - Geosites Inventory in Liguria Region (Northern Italy): A Tool for Regional Geoconservation and Environmental Management. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2346. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042346
  • Roccati A., Paliaga G., Luino F., Faccini F., Turconi L. (2021) - GIS-Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping for Land Use Planning and Risk Assessment. Land , 10, 162. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10020162
  • Brandolini P., Del Monte M., Faccini F., Cattoor B., Zwoliński Z. & Smith M. (2021) - Geomorphological mapping in urban areas, Journal of Maps, 17:4, 1-5, DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2021.1952671
  • Terrone M., Paliaga G., Bazzurro N., Marchese A., Faccini F. (2021) - Groundwater resources in a fractured-rock aquifer, Conglomerate of Portofino, Journal of Maps, 17:2, 268-278, DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2021.1911868
  • Mandarino A., Faccini F., Terrone M., Paliaga G. (2021) - Anthropogenic landforms and geo-hydrological hazards of the Bisagno Stream catchment (Liguria, Italy), Journal of Maps, 17:3, 122-135, DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2020.1866704
  • Mandarino A., Luino F., Faccini F. (2021) - Flood-induced ground effects and flood-water dynamics for hydro-geomorphic hazard assessment: the 21–22 October 2019 extreme flood along the lower Orba River (Alessandria, NW Italy), Journal of Maps, 17:3, 136-151, DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2020.1866702
  • F. Faccini, L. Federico, S. Torchio, A. Roccati, G. Capponi, L. Crispini (2021) - A mountain slope deformation in an alpine metaophiolitic massif (Ligurian Alps, Italy). Journal of Maps, 17:3, 77-89, DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2020.1854130

The research interest are focused mainly on geo-hydrological hazards in urban and peri-urban areas, from their identification to management and risk  reduction measurements, and on applied geomorphological mapping, especially addressed to urban and land planning. In this tasks he adopted a multi-disciplinary approach for a comprehensive reading of cultural landscape through historical, recent and present-day maps comparison, mainly aimed to man made landforms identification and mapping. Other research interests are related to landslides and deep-seated gravitational slope deformations, geomorphology and hydrogeology in karstic areas and geological heritage identification and mapping.

He took part in several research projects, international, national and from University, and he has been scientific advisor of several research contracts having always object of engineering and environmental geology and geomorphology.

Biography

Francesco Faccini (Rapallo, 1968) is an applied geomorphologist with an educational background in engineering geology and physical geography. He obtained two Master degrees summa cum laude at University of Genoa in Geological Science (1991) and in Geography (1998). Both the master thesis got an award for scientific interest in natural protected areas. In 1993 he attended the 2nd level specialisation degree in “Environmental engineering”  at the School of Management and Organization Company in Genoa. He worked as geologist consultant for 15 years, and he got significant experience in the field of engineering and environmental geology, geomorphology applied to land and city planning. Since 2005 he’s a Senior Lecturer of Physical Geography and Geomorphology at the University of Genoa.

From 2012 to nowadays he’s a member of the Community Park and board member of the Regional Natural Park of Portofino, and from 2013 to 2017 he’s a board member of the Ligurian Regional list of Geologists.

He’s registered at Italian Association of Physical Geography and Geomorphology (AIGeo), at Italian Association of Engineering and Environmental Geology (AIGA) and Italian Society of Environmental Geology (SIGEA).

Teaching summary

In 2023/24 academic year is the holder of Geomorphological Survey and mapping teaching in the Bachelor Degree in Earth Sciences and Geo-Hydrological hazard and Civil Protection teaching in the Master course of Geological Sciences. Before he held the teachings: Geotechnic and Geomechanic elements, Basics of Geomorphology, Environmental Geology, Applied Cartography, Geomorphology applied to land planning, Engineering Geology, Applied Hydrogeology and Applied Geomorphology in the degree programs of Geological Sciences, Geography and Natural Science.