Seismic risk has been treated in the project not as a separate problem affecting some systems and which can be isolated and studied separately; on the contrary the attempt being made is to consider it within the relations with the overall environment, including physical systems, built and natural environments, social context.

The methodology that has been developed, in its general features, can be therefore extended also to other kinds of hazards, because the focus has been put on vulnerable systems and on relations between the latter and the natural stress rather than only on the hazard itself.