Soil Defense Public Works in Italy

The dataset presented here collects financial data about public works in Italy, specifically, it focuses on soil defense investments. The data is sourced from three distinct platforms: the OpenCoesione website, the OpenBDAP database, the Ministry of Economy and Finance's open data platform, and the ReNDiS database, provided by ISPRA, that exclusively gathers information about interventions in soil defense. The data obtained is interconnected using unique project codes (CUP) to prevent duplication. It is geographically referenced, associating each financial observation with a specific public work in an Italian municipality within a region and its centroids and areal shape. Datasets, devided by region, containe information regarding public works on soil defense in Italy. They present 28 variables: Columns 1-2: descriptive variables; Column 3: total amount financed for each intervention; Columns 4-9: geo-reference variables; Column 10:25: key dates of the public works process; Column 26: source of the data; Columns 27-28: geo-referencing (centroids and areal shape).