The city-territory: large-scale planning and development policies in the aftermath of the Belice valley earthquake (Sicily, 1968)

Parrinello, Giacomo

doi:10.1080/02665433.2013.774538

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“…After the 1968 earthquake in Sicily, the Italian government coupled reconstruction goals with the socioeconomic development in a paternalistic way, through the modernization, industrialization and urbanization of a rural and 'underdeveloped' area. However, this approach failed with the economic crisis in the 1970s (Parrinello, 2013). Conversely, after the 1976 earthquake in Friuli and the 1997 earthquake in Umbria and Marche, the government partially decentralized recovery at regional, municipality and community level, preserving most of the pre-existing spatial and socio-economic structures (Geipel 1979(Geipel , 1991Nimis, 2009).…”

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Disaster recovery: narrating the resilience process in the reconstruction of L’Aquila (Italy)

Forino

2014

Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography

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The paper uses a disaster resilience (hereafter DR) framework to investigate the case study of L'Aquila, Italy, affected by an earthquake in 2009. It considers DR as a shared and dynamic process integrating the capacities of individuals and communities, and enacted by place-based emergent groups (hereafter EGs). The paper aims to narrate DR in L'Aquila from the grassroots' standpoint using semi-structured interviews, analysing the EG's ideas and initiatives in reconstructing the city. It asserts that the integration of this DR into institutional strategies would have more successful targeted the needs of local communities during the reconstruction process. Conclusions frame the reconstruction in L'Aquila within the context of Italian disaster management, and discuss how this case study can be evidence for studies on disaster recovery and resilience.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Disaster recovery: narrating the resilience process in the reconstruction of L’Aquila (Italy)

Forino

2014

Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography

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“…In the United States, the development of coastal tourism in Florida has been prepared and made possible by investment in transportation (roads) and urban infrastructure (aqueducts and energy) made in the context of the New Deal regional planning policies, albeit without much concern for the environment or for the risks associated with coastal settlement (Steinberg Theodore 2006). Regional planning in 1960s and 1970s Italy often included the development of littoral tourism through infrastructure and land-use planning on a very large scale (Parrinello 2013). In Spain, the growth of tourism in the 1960s was accompanied by conspicuous public investments made in the framework of national economic planning (Pellejero Martinez 2004).…”

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Regional Planning and the Environmental Impact of Coastal Tourism: The Mission Racine for the Redevelopment of Languedoc-Roussillon’s Littoral

Parrinello

Bécot

2019

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Research on the coast has highlighted the role of mass tourism as a driver of littoral urbanization. This article emphasizes the role of public policy by focusing on Languedoc-Roussillon in Mediterranean France. This littoral was the target of a state-driven development initiative known as Mission Racine, which aimed to promote the growth of what was seen as a backward area via the development of seaside tourism. For that purpose, the Mission promoted coordinated interventions including forest management, eradication of mosquitoes, construction of resorts, and transport infrastructure. This large-scale redevelopment significantly reshaped the littoral environment, severely impacted pre-existing forms of coastal activities and launched a new tourism industry. The legacy of the Mission, however, also included innovative land-use planning, which established protected areas and sought to contain urbanization. This case study illustrates the ambiguities of public policies for the coast, which can act alternatively as drivers of development or conservation and at times of both, and therein lies the importance of a contextual analysis of their role.

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“…For example, this has frequently been the case of earthquakes in Southern Italy (e.g., those in Belice in 1968, Irpinia in 1980 or Abruzzo in 2009). On those occasions, Cosa Nostra, the Camorra and other OCGs took advantage of reconstruction works to obtain public procurements and subsidies, and to strengthen their grip on local businesses and markets (Monzini 1999 ; Parrinello 2013 ; Riccardi et al 2016 ). This is of importance because already in the first month of the pandemic, the distress caused by the spread of the virus and by the social distancing measures induced the governments of several countries to plan unprecedented injections of liquidity into their economies (Rizwan et al 2020 ).…”

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COVID-19 and Organized Crime: Strategies employed by criminal groups to increase their profits and power in the first months of the pandemic

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The COVID-19 pandemic has created new opportunities for organized criminal groups and confronted them with new challenges. Analysis of how these groups have reacted to the pandemic yields better understanding of how they work and enables the devising of more effective counter-strategies. To this end, we identified illustrative cases regarding the provision of illegal governance and infiltration of the legal economy by conducting a systematic content analysis of international media articles and institutional reports published during the first eight months after the outbreak of the pandemic (January to August 2020). These cases were further analyzed in order to cluster the behavior of criminal groups in response to the COVID-19 emergency, and the means by which they tried to exploit the pandemic to strengthen their political and economic power. We found that different governance-type criminal groups proposed themselves as institutions able to mitigate the burdens imposed by the pandemic by providing support to people in need and enforcing social-distancing measures. Further, identified cases did not provide evidence of groups devoted to the provision of illicit services and goods assuming any governance role. In this respect, the available evidence supports previous knowledge about organized crime. Cases of misappropriation of public funds and organized crime infiltration of the legal economy seem less common, at least in the first phase of the pandemic. The wholesale distribution of pharmaceuticals and medicines has been the sector targeted the most.

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The city-territory: large-scale planning and development policies in the aftermath of the Belice valley earthquake (Sicily, 1968)

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Disaster recovery: narrating the resilience process in the reconstruction of L’Aquila (Italy)

Disaster recovery: narrating the resilience process in the reconstruction of L’Aquila (Italy)

Regional Planning and the Environmental Impact of Coastal Tourism: The Mission Racine for the Redevelopment of Languedoc-Roussillon’s Littoral

COVID-19 and Organized Crime: Strategies employed by criminal groups to increase their profits and power in the first months of the pandemic

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