Between oblivion and drastic evidence: How local communities cope with seismic risk by forgetting and remembering

Autor: Sonia Brondi, Raquel Bertoldo, Lucilla Benedetti, Rocco Claudio Tanga
Přispěvatelé: Universita degli Studi di Padova, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Università degli studi 'G. d'Annunzio' Chieti-Pescara [Chieti-Pescara] (Ud'A), Aix Marseille Université (AMU), ANR-11-LABX-0061,OTMed,Objectif Terre : Bassin Méditerranéen(2011), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Risk perception
History
Earthquake
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
media_common.quotation_subject
0211 other engineering and technologies
Face (sociological concept)
02 engineering and technology
[SDU.STU.ME]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Meteorology
Social memory
01 natural sciences
Social representations
Place attachment
Risk management
Seismic risk
Everyday life
Empowerment
[SDU.STU.AG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Applied geology
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
media_common
021110 strategic
defence & security studies
Forgetting
business.industry
Fatalism
Perspective (graphical)
Geology
Building and Construction
Public relations
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
[SHS.ENVIR]Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental studies
Residence
business
Settore M-PSI/05 - Psicologia Sociale
Safety Research
Zdroj: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Elsevier, 2021, 56, ⟨10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102132⟩
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Elsevier, 2021, 56, pp.102132. ⟨10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102132⟩
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2021, 56, pp.102132. ⟨10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102132⟩
ISSN: 2212-4209
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102132⟩
Popis: International audience; Drawing upon a socio-constructivist perspective, this paper aims to gain insight into how two communities in the Italian Apennines region - differentially exposed to severe earthquakes in the past - remember, understand and plan for seismic phenomena. Avezzano was completely devastated in 1915, while the last significant event in Sulmona dates to 1706. However, both communities have indirectly experienced recent serious seismic events (e.g., L'Aquila earthquake in 2009 and Amatrice earthquake in 2016) as well as directly experienced lesser local tremblors. Interviews with citizens (N = 37) and stakeholders (N = 18) were conducted in the two cities and content-analysed with the support of NVivo software. The results show substantial differences in how respondents understand seismic events, access this information and prepare preventive strategies depending on their place of residence and role. The Avezzano community shares a more detached view, while the Sulmona community gives a more concerned picture. Moreover, the stakeholders tend to present an optimistic scenario, while citizens express a more critical viewpoint. Overall, the interview contents may be organised around two main oppositions: fatalism vs. empowerment in the face of an earthquake threat; and the will to forget about this risk vs. the need to remember it. The positioning on these two oppositions is defined by psychological, social and structural characteristics of individuals, and give rise to different representations of seismic risk and management. Such representations have practical implications for how the issue is addressed and faced in the communities' everyday life.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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