Disaster Resilience from a Sociological Perspective Exploring Three Italian Earthquakes as Models for Disaster Resilience Planning /

• Main Author: Lucini, Barbara (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Humanitarian Solutions in the 21st Century,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Sociology.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Sociology, general.; Community and Environmental Psychology.

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 with extreme challenges.  Disaster Resilience f...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Sociological question of crises and disasters in our contemporary society
• What is resilience? The state of the art
• Organizational response to emergencies: Italian civil protection and civil defence service
• Civil Protection Voluntary Service
• Italian civil protection volunteers: “professional” resilience and the importance of training
• Population experience of earthquakes and possible resilient responses to disasters
• Conclusion.