Security and Resilience in Small Centres of Inland Areas.

Starting from a theoretical reflection on current planning tools and on the concept of urban resilience, the paper supports a new methodological approach that attempts to offer a more structural and not only operational characterization to the Emergency Plans. The analysis of the physical and functional relationships between the various strategic elements of the territory shifts the focus of the emergency from a punctual approach to a more integrated one, capable of directing future decisions relating to the urban planning of the territory in a more appropriate way specific to spatial planning. In fact, although over the years the issues of risk and safety have contributed to orienting the methods of governing the territories, still today, when an adverse event occurs, clear unresolved critical issues emerge that push urban planning to question the new challenges to be faced undertake, especially in terms of emergency management. The focus of the municipality of Moliterno, in the Alta Val d'Agri district (Basilicata, Italy), is shown as a practical example of improvement in seismic emergency management, despite the presence of critical issues, such as the historic centre and the accentuated orography.