From earthquakes to oil spills, Italy is recurrently affected by different kinds of disasters. This book brings a critical perspective to post-disaster reconstruction and recovery, which can impact in both the short- and long- term upon society, politics and organisations.
It is often assumed that disaster-hit areas return to normality or even “build back better” thanks to the interventions of experts. Giuseppe Forino considers the complexities of disaster recovery and the sometimes radical changes in individual and collective behaviours that persist following such events. Bringing together the impacts of natural hazards (including climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic), this edited book will stimulate debate on policy and practice in disaster recovery.
From earthquakes to oil spills, Italy is recurrently affected by different kinds of disasters. This book brings a critical perspective to post-disaster reconstruction and recovery, which can impact in both the short- and long- term upon society, politics and organisations.
It is often assumed that disaster-hit areas return to normality or even “build back better” thanks to the interventions of experts. Giuseppe Forino considers the complexities of disaster recovery and the sometimes radical changes in individual and collective behaviours that persist following such events. Bringing together the impacts of natural hazards (including climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic), this edited book will stimulate debate on policy and practice in disaster recovery.
Introduction – An Overview of the Book: Beyond Conventional
Approaches to Disaster Recovery - Giuseppe Forino
Part 1: Making Sense of Post-disaster Changes in Society and
Space
1. Risk Perception, Climate Change and Disasters of the Alpine
Environments: The Mont de La Saxe Landslide - Elisabetta Dall’Ò
2. The Isolation of the Island: The Social Impasse in Ischia after
the Earthquake and Tourism Crises (2017–22) - Giovanni Gugg
3. The Permanent Red Zone: An Ethnography of Spatial Practices in
the Areas of the Italian Central Apennines Affected by Earthquakes
(2016–17) - Enrico Mariani
4. Adaptive Disaster Memories: Voices from the Post-earthquake
Irpinia (23 November 1980) - Gabriele Ivo Moscaritolo
Part 2: Post-disaster Politics
5. The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Ladder of Power: Local Politics
and Society in Italy - Pietro Saitta
6. Afar from Vesuvius but Still at Risk: The Unstoppable
Urbanization of the Naples Volcano’s Yellow Zone - Giovanni
Gugg
7. Local Communities as Strangers In-between: The Paradigm of
Aleatory Politics in Post-earthquake Central Italy (2016–17) -
Francesco Danesi della Sala
Part 3: Disasters and Conflicting Knowledges
8. Under the Smart City Paradigm: The Social and Spatial
Transformation of L’Aquila City Centre - Isabella Tomassi
9. Expertise Versus Aspiration: Ethnography of Post-earthquake
Reconstruction in Emilia (Italy) - Silvia Pitzalis
10. Local and Professional Knowledge in Post-disaster
Reconstruction: Overlaps and Differences in Maierato
(Calabria, Southern Italy) - Francesco De Pascale and Loredana
Antronico
Part 4: Organizations Adapting to Post-disaster Changes
11. Adapting to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Distance Learning
Experience of the University of Milan-Bicocca - Sara Zizzari and
Brunella Fiore
12. The National and Local Dimension of the Italian Civil
Protection System: Evolution and Implementation of DRR Policies -
Monia Del Pinto, Ksenia Chmutina, Lee Bosher and Garyfalia (Falli)
Palaiologou
13. When the Unexpected Becomes Frequent - Mattia Bertin
14. Conclusions: The ‘Italian Case’ from a Global Disaster
Perspective - Giuseppe Forino
Giuseppe Forino is Lecturer in Planning at the University of Salford.
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