water Article Geomorphology-Based Analysis of Flood Critical Areas in Small Hilly Catchments for Civil Protection Purposes and Early Warning Systems: The Case of the Feltrino Stream and the Lanciano Urban Area (Abruzzo, Central Italy) Tommaso Piacentini 1,2 , Cristiano Carabella 1,* , Fausto Boccabella 3, Silvia Ferrante 4, Carlo Gregori 5, Vania Mancinelli 1 , Alessandro Pacione 5, Tommaso Pagliani 6 and Enrico Miccadei 1,2 1 Department of Engineering and Geology, Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Via dei Vestini 31, 66100 Chieti, Italy;
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[email protected] Received: 21 May 2020; Accepted: 5 August 2020; Published: 7 August 2020 Abstract: This work is based on a drainage basin-scale geomorphological investigation combined with flood modeling. It is focused on the assessment of flood critical areas for the implementation of a geomorphology-based urban Early Warning System (EWS) in the urban area of Lanciano and the Feltrino Stream basin (a minor coastal basin of the Abruzzo hills, Central Italy).