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Disasters and Changes in Society and Politics : Contemporary Perspectives from Italy
Disasters and Changes in Society and Politics : Contemporary Perspectives from Italy
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ISBN No.: 9781529226751
Pages: 260
Year: 202401
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 147.73
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1. Introduction: An Overview of the Book: Beyond Conventional Approaches to Disaster Recovery - Giuseppe ForinoPart 1: Making Sense of Post-disaster Changes in Society and Space2. Who Pulls the Strings? Uncertainty and The Materiality of Suspicion in the Aftermath of Oil Disaster in Sicily - Mara Benadusi3. Risk Perception, Climate Change and Disasters on Alpine Environments: The Mont De La Saxe Landslide - Elisabetta Dall'Ò4. Post-disaster Reconstruction Impasse and Social Change: The Island of Ischia After the 2017 Earthquake - Giovanni Gugg5. Changing Spatial Practies and Temporalities: The Permanent "Red Zone" in the Central Apennines After the 2016 and 2017 Earthquakes - Enrico Mariani6. Adaptive Disaster Memories: Voices from the post-Earthquake Irpinia - Gabriele Ivo MoscaritoloPart 2: Post-disaster Politics7. Disasters and Acceleration of Political Changes: The Case of North-Eastern Sicily - Irene Falconieri8.


COVID-19 Pandemic and the Ladder of Power: Local Politics and Society in Italy - Pietro Saitta9. Local Communities as Strangers In-Between: The Paradigm of Aleatory Politics in Post-earthquake Central Italy (2016-2017) - Francesco DanesiPart 3: Disasters and Conflicting Knowledges10. The Smart City Paradigm in Post-disaster Reconstruction: The Social and Spatial Transformation of L'Aquila City Centre - Isabella Tomassi11. Which Knowledge Matters Most? Ethnography of Post-earthquake Reconstruction in Emilia - Silvia Pitzalis12. Local and Professional Knowledge in Post-disaster Reconstruction: Overlaps and Differences in Maierato (Calabria) - Francesco De Pascale and Loredana AntronicoPart 4: Organizations Adapting to Post-disaster Changes13. Adapting to COVID-19 Pandemic: The Distance Learning Experience of the University of Milan Bicocca - Alessandra Decataldo, Brunella Fiore, Alessandro Gabbiadini and Sara Zizzari14. 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 Falli Palaiologou15. Continuity in Disasters: "Minor" Events as a Challenge for Disaster Recovery - Mattia Bertin, Francesco Musco, Lorenzo Fabian and Javier Ruiz Sanchez16.


Cascading Effects, Flood Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation: A Missing Linkage? - Gianluca Pescaroli and Michael Nones17. Conclusions: The "Italian Case" into a Global Disaster Perspective - Giuseppe Forino.


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