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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Korkmaz 2021.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

It was clear that the US Government was influenced by the suffering and the shortcomings of the response to the tragedy as it built up its own capacity to respond to natural hazard impacts. It proved to be a crucible of experimentation in architectural, engineering and urban planning terms.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

It is an architectural paradise of which the inhabitants are, rightly, fiercely proud. Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. In Florence, by contrast, there is a living, active concept of fiorentinesimo.