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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

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.

Natural Hazard

Natural Hazard All-Hazards Automotive Risk Reduction

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place. In Haiti, a third of the population lacks secure access to food. Haiti has long had a shortage of all three.

Vulnerability

Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Government

The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

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