Disaster Recovery Practices and Resilience Building in Greece

Coccossis, Harry; Delladetsimas, Pavlos-Marinos; Katsigianni, Xenia

doi:10.3390/urbansci5010028

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“…Historically, urban settings have been quite separated when it comes to tourism, with many cities creating designated tourist areas that virtually solely serve visitors [57]. Residential areas were zoned out and away from tourist accommodation facilities, while additional tourist infrastructure, including gift stores, tourist-friendly eateries, sightseeing buses, and nightclubs, were built next to the hotels or near transit hubs, or within reach of heritage cultural sites or structures [58][59][60]. This division is put into question by the integration of smart technology into urban settings, which is a powerful driver for the merging of touristic and residential uses of urban space.…”

Section: Tourism and Smart Citiesmentioning

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Smart ‘Tourist Cities’ Revisited: Culture-Led Urban Sustainability and the Global Real Estate Market

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Smart tourism destinations have received increasing attention during the last few years. Digital technologies have reshaped the smart city paradigm in terms of both resilience and sustainability, capitalizing cities’ cultural and historical components while providing unique potential for growth in the real estate industry. Real estate, in particular, is considered a main asset to the tourist experience, whether it is in the form of hospitality accommodation facilities, urban landscapes, or cultural heritage hotspots. In addition, the effect of cultural sites and overall destination attractiveness on real estate dynamics (land/housing prices and building activity) is well established. Thus, uncovering how enhanced technological throughputs and synergies, culture-led urban sustainability initiatives and the real estate dimension are directly (or indirectly) associated could support cities to better delineate policies for their promotion as international, sustainable, and resilient tourist destinations. With this perspective, the present study focused on four particular cities’ successful smart initiatives, namely Amsterdam, Barcelona, Seoul, and Stockholm, in an attempt to identify how developers and local authorities will need to transform in order to offer better services to residents and visitors. This work reveals that smart projects alone cannot secure the transition of existing (European) cities into smart and sustainable tourism destinations. In addition, this study also contributes to public policy by demonstrating how challenging it is to be smart without the support and involvement of the local community, highlighting the significance of public awareness. The empirical findings suggest that local authorities are of critical importance when shaping a well-structured and practically effective strategy for the integration of sustainable and technologically advanced smart features. Results are promising, and final reflections provide insights for tourism destinations policymakers, city authorities, and real estate professionals.

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Section: Tourism and Smart Citiesmentioning

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“…Especially regarding earthquakes is classi ed as one of the most earthquake prone countries in Europe (Makropoulos et al, 2012). In this respect, most studies in Greece have been concentrating on the issue of earthquake vulnerability and resilience, denoting a strong theoretical and policy interest (Sarris et al, 2010, Karababa andPomonis, 2011;Giannaraki et al, 2019;Pnevmatikos et al, 2020;Coccossis et al, 2021). As stated already however, risk perception studies are rather limited and disjointed.…”

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Socio-demographic and Built-environment determinants of Earthquake Risk Perception: the case of the Corinthiakos Gulf in Greece

Niforatos

Panagiotakos

Delladetsimas

2023

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Risk perception has been widely recognized as an essential factor in shaping attitudes and behaviors of individuals and communities proactively, during and after the experience of extreme catastrophic events. Its importance derives out mostly due to its intrinsic relationship with socio-economic parameters and capacity building of communities affected by such events. The aim of this paper was to elaborate on the demographic, socio-economic and built-environment determinants of earthquake risk perception of populations living in an extremely earthquake-prone environment. For this purpose, a population sample of municipalities in the Corinthiakos Gulf in Central West Greece, was examined. The sample (230 men and 276 women) was randomly selected from three coastal municipalities of the Gulf: Aigialeia, Nafpaktia and Corinthos. Multi-adjusted linear regression analysis was performed to reveal the determinants of the participants’ perceptions regarding earthquake risk. Findings revealed that mean earthquake risk perception score was moderate in both men and women and notably lower for the participants living in the municipality of Nafpaktia, as compared to the participants of the other two study areas. Earthquake risk perception varied significantly according to age, sex, income and building construction period (of assets resided or used by the participants). Younger strata, especially young men, and households of lower income status tend to correlate to lower earthquake risk perception. Moreover, individuals living in newly constructed buildings presented lower earthquake risk perception levels. Also, increased individuals’ earthquake safety information provided by state agencies and local civil protection authorities was associated with increased risk perception. Issues like education, household structure, building earthquake insurance, savings and trust in civil protection authorities, were not associated with risk perception. From a policy design point of view, such findings provide noteworthy insights for local communities and civil protection authorities allowing to identify vulnerable population groups and to provide noteworthy insights to design targeted measures and policies in the making of a safe and resilient environment.

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“…In order to minimize the impact of disasters for cities around the world, we need to better understand how individuals, families, and social systems operate under extreme conditions, how individuals and societies respond to disrupted complex social systems, and what can be done to aid those harmed by disasters [9]. Insights from research on disasters have been institutionalized and applied in new local, regional, and international strategies and tactics for mitigation, preparation and warning, emergency response and aid, recovery, resilience, and sustainability (e.g., [10][11][12][13][14]) at local, national, and global levels to reduce the risk of disruption and harm from disasters. The increasing frequency of disasters caused by climate change [1,5,15,16] has added a sense of urgency to disaster research while at the same time researchers in several fields, notably economics (e.g., [17]), socio-ecology (e.g., [18]), and human-coupled systems (e.g., [19]), have recognized the importance of framing human systems as complex adaptive systems and have begun to study their implications for global markets, climate change, and the organization of cities [20].…”

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Organizing Theories for Disasters into a Complex Adaptive System Framework

2021

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Increasingly urbanized populations and climate change have shifted the focus of decision makers from economic growth to the sustainability and resilience of urban infrastructure and communities, especially when communities face multiple hazards and need to recover from recurring disasters. Understanding human behavior and its interactions with built environments in disasters requires disciplinary crossover to explain its complexity, therefore we apply the lens of complex adaptive systems (CAS) to review disaster studies across disciplines. Disasters can be understood to consist of three interacting systems: (1) the physical system, consisting of geological, ecological, and human-built systems; (2) the social system, consisting of informal and formal human collective behavior; and (3) the individual actor system. Exploration of human behavior in these systems shows that CAS properties of heterogeneity, interacting subsystems, emergence, adaptation, and learning are integral, not just to cities, but to disaster studies and connecting them in the CAS framework provides us with a new lens to study disasters across disciplines. This paper explores the theories and models used in disaster studies, provides a framework to study and explain disasters, and discusses how complex adaptive systems can support theory building in disaster science for promoting more sustainable and resilient cities.

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Disaster Recovery Practices and Resilience Building in Greece

Cited by 8 publications

References 50 publications

Smart ‘Tourist Cities’ Revisited: Culture-Led Urban Sustainability and the Global Real Estate Market

Smart ‘Tourist Cities’ Revisited: Culture-Led Urban Sustainability and the Global Real Estate Market

Socio-demographic and Built-environment determinants of Earthquake Risk Perception: the case of the Corinthiakos Gulf in Greece

Organizing Theories for Disasters into a Complex Adaptive System Framework

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