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Top-down reconstruction and the failure to “build back better” resilient communities after disaster: lessons from the 2009 L’Aquila Italy earthquake

This article examines the failures of top-down reconstruction after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, revealing how command-and-control approaches inhibited resilience and marginalized local communities from meaningful participation in rebuilding efforts​.

University of Groningen
This article examines the failures of top-down reconstruction after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, revealing how command-and-control approaches inhibited resilience and marginalized local communities from meaningful participation in rebuilding efforts​.
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Building resilient regions after a natural disaster: Abruzzo 2030, OECD forum
Background The forum aims at discussing priorities for a development strategy to get Abruzzo out of its backwardness and for the rebirth of L’Aquila after the 2009 earthquake. Issues considered are those emerged by the analysis and on field interviews in
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