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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). The incessant, cumulative hammer-blow effect of disasters of all kinds on modern society had begun to stimulate a consistent demand for greater safety and security.

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Leonardo and the Deluge

Emergency Planning

Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man." His fascination in the modern era consists of a mixture of his genius in many fields (painting, natural history, hydraulics, flight, mechanics, architecture, military strategy, weaponry, anatomy, and so on) and his secretiveness. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x