“Informative Representation” for the vulnerability analysis of anthropic landscape. Two different areas in comparison: the historical center of St. Elia Fiumerapido (Fr) and the mining site of Coreno Ausonio

Among the main risk factors of the landscape are the overexploitation of the soil and a high physical vulnerability of our country. This risk needs to be mitigated through a careful analysis of the critici- ty levels in the different geographical areas. In this paper two different procedures for vulnerability analysis, carried out with the GIS, are described, designed for completely different landscape are- as: the historical center of Sant’Elia Fiumerapido, in the province of Frosinone, and the minign ba- sin of Coreno Ausonio, in the province of Latina. These two cases constitute examples where the “Informative Representation” allows an immedi- ate reading of the involved components with the aim, in the first case to preserve the evidence of the past, in the second case to protect the envi- ronment from uncontrolled human activities.