Disaster Resilience from a Sociological Perspective Exploring Three
Natural disasters traumatize individuals, disrupt families, and destabilize communities.Surviving these harrowing events calls for courage, tenacity, and resilience. Professional planning requires specific types of knowledge of how people meet and cope wi
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Barbara Lucini
Disaster Resilience from a Sociological Perspective Exploring Three Italian Earthquakes as Models for Disaster Resilience Planning
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Barbara Lucini
Disaster Resilience from a Sociological Perspective Exploring Three Italian Earthquakes as Models for Disaster Resilience Planning
Barbara Lucini Department of Sociology Catholic University of Sacred Heart Milan Milano, Italy
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Acknowledgements
I am grateful to all the people who made possible this research. Especially the people, of the National Civil Protection Service, for their availability; the personnel of the regions and municipalities; the experts interviewed; all the civil protection volunteers who participated in the survey; and all the ordinary people who told me of their dramatic experiences: I will never forget their eyes and what I saw in them. I am grateful to my Tu
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