Authors: Francesco De Pascale Marcello Bernardo Francesco Muto Dante Di Matteo Valeria Dattilo
Publish Date: 2016/11/30
Volume: 86, Issue: 2, Pages: 569-586
Abstract
The last few years have seen the debate on the geoethics of environmental and climatic protection growing to include resilience as a central idea within this new discipline which holds many similarities with geography Resilience analysis often looks at the capacity to reestablish conditions of equilibrium within a system which has been hit by a serious shock eg a natural or manmade disaster Geoethics works in tandem with geological analyses and the geography of risk to inform a population and develop integrated risk management in such a way as to strengthen a community’s resilience The aim of this work is to study some people’s capacity to overcome what was potentially a disastrous event and through a process of reconstruction turn it into an occasion for growth The experiment carried out in the primary and middle schools in Aiello Calabro Calabria southern Italy was conducted on the basis of the belief that there is a close relationship between a population’s having a realistic understanding of the risk of such an event eg an earthquake and high levels of resilience We also tried to gain an insight into the relationship that may exist between resilience in primary and secondary school children and methods of coping which give an appropriate management of seismic risk To be more precise we try to discover whether there is a link between good/appropriate resilience and good/appropriate risk management
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