Landslide risk perception, social vulnerability and community resilience: The case study of Maierato (Calabria, southern Italy)

Antronico, Loredana; Pascale, Francesco De; Coscarelli, Roberto; Gullà, Giovanni

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101529

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“…If we analyze the perception of exposure to extreme natural events, the perception of exposure to earthquakes by respondents from Lago and Amantea is high on both. These data, in the context of this geographical study area, confirm the high perception of risk exposure, also found in other studies carried out in different areas of Calabria-Pollino [63], Aiello Calabro [78], Costa degli Dei [60,79], Maierato [61,80]. As we have pointed out, the two municipalities are located in an area with high seismic hazard.…”

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“…Perception of exposure to extreme natural events [60,61] Behaviour if an extreme event occurs [62,63] Trust in actions taken by local, national and global policy makers [60,61] In September 2019, the questionnaire was submitted to 300 citizens, of which 100 were inhabitants of Lago and 200 inhabitants of Amantea. The method for selecting participants was non-proportional quota sampling (based on gender and age).…”

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“…Additionally, in another study on the perception of climate change conducted in Sweden, homeowners said their trust in local policymakers is low when it comes to managing crises [90]. However, other studies on the perception of geo-hydrological risk in Calabria have also revealed the lack of trust of citizens towards local policymakers [60,61]. In some studies, gender difference has been found to have a considerable influence on risk perception [91]; even in this study, women have greater confidence than men in local government authorities.…”

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Climate Change and Social Perception: A Case Study in Southern Italy

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The consequences of climate change can involve various ambits and be very severe. For this reason, the social perception of climate change is a fundamental issue since it can influence the decisions of the policymakers, by encouraging or discouraging political, economic and social actions. In this paper, a sample of 300 interviews, collected through a standardized questionnaire and carried out among two municipalities located in southern Italy, was exploited to investigate the perception of climate change. Specific issues, regarding perceptions about climate change, concerns about its impacts, level of information, behavior and actions, exposure to extreme natural events and trust, were addressed to give answers to the research questions: (i) Is climate change perceived by the population? (ii) What is the degree of the community resilience to extreme natural events and climate change? As the main findings, this survey highlighted that the spatio-temporal dimension affects population perception, suggesting that some issues, such as correct behavior towards the geosphere, the sustainability of anthropization processes, community resilience and disaster risk reduction policies, can be very central and useful to mitigate the effects of climate change in population and society. Moreover, climate change perception varies in relation to contextual factors, including media communication, socio-demographic characteristics of respondents, knowledge and education, economic and institutional factors, personal values and, finally, psychological factors and experience.

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“…In a developed country perspective, for example in Italy, it was found that the landslide-exposed communities were less aware of the disaster risk (Calvello et al, 2016), did not consider landslides as a threat and were less unwilling to participate in prevention activities (Gravina et al, 2017). In all these case studies in an urban hill context, the common recommendations to address landslide disasters were focused on developing landslide early warning systems, initiating communitybased DRR activities (Raška, 2019), integrating land use planning, understanding social vulnerability and increasing communications between communities at risk and government agencies (Klimeš et al, 2019;Antronico et al, 2020). This proves that the findings from the urbanised hill communities in Bangladesh are comparable with other developing and developed nations globally.…”

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The root causes of landslide vulnerability in Bangladesh

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2021

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Communities living in the Chittagong Hill Districts (CHD) of Bangladesh recurrently observe landslide disasters during the monsoon season (June–September). CHD is primarily dominated by three distinct groups of hill communities, namely, urbanised hill (Bengali), indigenous tribal and stateless Rohingya refugees. Landslide vulnerability amongst them is complex and varies between physical, social, economic, environmental, institutional and cultural dimensions. This study aims to understand driving forces of landslide disasters in the region by emphasising human factors. Data from the three contrasting communities were collected through participatory workshops, in-depth interviews and fieldwork observation. The participants were local people and landslide experts who were purposefully selected from five case study communities in the CHD. They ranked different socio-economic problems, identified causes of landslides and proposed landslide mitigation action plans. Results suggest that the urbanised Bengali and Rohingya refugee communities are highly vulnerable to landslides. The urbanised hill communities largely deal with poverty, social injustice, lack of planning regulations and illegal hill cutting issues, whereas the Rohingya refugees’ predominant constraints are linked to the ongoing genocide and state-sponsored violence in Myanmar hindering their sustainable repatriation, and their protracted living conditions in Bangladesh. The indigenous tribal communities are comparatively resilient to landslides due to their unique history, traditional knowledge, cultural heritage and lifestyle. Landslides in the CHD should be characterised as socio-natural hazards since the components of landslide disasters are profoundly intertwined with the culture–conflict–corruption nexus.

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“…Several approaches tend to believe that the inclusion of society (communities, people) in the DRM or the DRR is the mainstay of such an approach [21]- [25]. At the same time, the importance of the position of the public is emphasized in the framework of building a resilient society, vulnerability-reducing, or the abovementioned BBB principle [26], [27].…”

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Disaster Preparedness and Sustainable Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Environment

Titko

Sedliaková

2020

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The cost of climate change-related disasters in terms of the lives lost and the damages to the social, economic and environmental assets are predicted to be higher. Disaster risk management is one of the crucial pillars with which to face this emerging trend in order to ensure the goals of are achieved sustainable development. However, the sustainability of the disaster risk management development is also significantly more complicated in changing conditions. It is necessary to look for ways to build a disaster-resilient society. This paper focuses on exploring the possibilities of supporting the sustainability of the disaster risk management through the involvement of the general public into it. The objective of this paper is to present the results from assessing the preparedness for the disasters in the Slovak Republic with an emphasis on the changing climate and environment (from population perspective). The research is based on the exploration of the questionnaire survey's results aimed at investigating the preparedness and preventive proactive behaviour of the population against the disasters. The results suggest that the disaster risk awareness and overall disaster preparedness level is rather poor and the population is inactive. The proactive behaviour of the respondents against the disasters is partially affected by some of their personality and socio-economic characteristics; especially, the younger respondents currently incline more toward adopting the protective measures. In addition, other aspects, e.g. the negative experience with the disasters in the past have an influence on the preparedness. The possibilities of increasing the preparedness of the population and their engagement into sustainable disaster risk management system are also discussed in this paper.

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Landslide risk perception, social vulnerability and community resilience: The case study of Maierato (Calabria, southern Italy)

Cited by 57 publications

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Climate Change and Social Perception: A Case Study in Southern Italy

Climate Change and Social Perception: A Case Study in Southern Italy

The root causes of landslide vulnerability in Bangladesh

Disaster Preparedness and Sustainable Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Environment

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