Although increasing attention has been given to the need to engage local communities and
facilitate community resilience, discrepancies between theory and practice remain evident …

Post-disaster recovery has been addressed in the literature by different sectoral
perspectives and scientific communities. Nevertheless, studies providing holistic …

Using the disaster risk reduction paradigm and United Nations principles for post-disaster
interventions, we analyse the actions of the Italian civil protection agency following the April …

Building sustainable and resilient societies is a multidimensional challenge that affects
achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In crises and disasters, civil …

The lack of coordination between government agencies, involvement of the collaboration
networks existing in the community, and incorporation of spatial planning in the location of …

After the earthquake in 2009, L'Aquila (Italy) began a recovery process characterized by a
delay in the reconstruction of the city center. Between 2010 and 2014 a recovery index was …

A number of indices have been developed for measuring vulnerability to disasters, but little
attention has been paid to recovery indices. Post-disaster periods are usually divided into …

Disasters impacts on urban environment are the result of interactions among natural and
human systems, which are intimately linked each other. What is more, cities are directly …

Cities are highly dynamic systems, whose resilience is affected by the interconnectedness
between “hard” and “soft” infrastructures.“Hard infrastructures” are the functional networks …

Under the background of global climate change, rainstorm and flood disasters have become
the most serious cataclysm. Under the circumstances of an increasingly severe risk situation …