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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). It proved to be a crucible of experimentation in architectural, engineering and urban planning terms. This small, ancient hilltop settlement was completely ruined.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). It is an architectural paradise of which the inhabitants are, rightly, fiercely proud.