*Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Gruppo Nazionale per la Difesa dai Rischi Chimico-Industriali ed Ecologici, Italy

**Istituto per la Sicurezza e le Tecnologie Ambientali Srl, Italy

***Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, Chimica Industriale e Scienza dei Materiali Universita degli Studi di Pisa, Italy

The Use of Quantitative Area Risk Assessment Techniques in Land Use Planning

Abstract

Quantitative Area Risk Assessment (QARA) techniques were used to evaluate the local, individual and social risk in an Italian industrial area. The changes in the risk values for population were evaluated with respect to different land-use options proposed for risk reduction. Even if more work is needed to develop straightforward procedures for the quantitative evaluation of some accidental scenarios, the QARA techniques proved to be a powerful decision-making tool in order to evaluate the impact on industrial risk of alternative land-use solutions.

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