Vulnerability mapping to Covid-19 of the metropolitan area in central Tuscany

Building urban resilience means identifying vulnerabilities rapidly and adopting adequate actions to anticipate, resist and recover with the least amount of damage in front hazards impacts. In this context, a synthetic index to measure vulnerability to COVID-19 is developed, by integrating different levels of information related to demographic characteristics, health profiles and access to resources, in order to identify any situations of fragility and predisposition to the spread of the epidemic, thus constituting a support element for the adoption of an efficient intervention strategy and for the management of any new epidemic waves. The integrated and multidisciplinary approach that has been chosen allows, indeed, to take into account the complexity and multi-disciplinary nature of the concept of vulnerability.