INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR THE DESIGN OF EARTHQUAKE RESILIENT CITIES (INDERC): THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COST OF SEISMIC DISASTERS IN ITALY OVER THE PAST 150 YEARS, A BOOK BY EMANUELA GUIDOBONI AND GIANLUCA VALENSISE

Saturday 28 July 2012

THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COST OF SEISMIC DISASTERS IN ITALY OVER THE PAST 150 YEARS, A BOOK BY EMANUELA GUIDOBONI AND GIANLUCA VALENSISE

DAMAGES IN THE RICH HERITAGE OF THE MOST CULTURAL TOURISTIC COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

An amazing book by Emanuela Guidoboni e Gianluca Valensise:

Il peso economico e sociale dei disastri sismici in Italia negli ultimi 150 anni

With the hardness of a database and the subtlety of a historical study, are recounted the 34 seismic disasters that have marked the history of Italy in its first 150 years, from unification. A seismic disaster occurs on average every 4-5 years, with severe damage or destruction at 1,560 locations, 10 cities, including capitals. And in between, other 86 earthquakes of lower energy, but sometimes a little less destructive.

LA ROCCA (FINALE EMILIA, 2012)

An Italian story unusual and disconcerting, on which no one had yet submitted the bills. Unpredictable, destructive, expensive, seismic disasters continue to weigh on the economies and afflicted societies for decades, sometimes forever.

At any time has been, strong earthquakes have changed the lives of individuals and families, changed social relations, rich heritages places demolished, damaged or reduced historic and modern buildings to rubble, modified forms of urban settlement networks changed, scoring sometimes ruins and leave the Italian landscape. Why so much damage? Who paid the higher cost?

The words by Emanuela Guidoboni:

"... The aim was to understand the seismic problem in our country This publication was made possible by the historical research developed for the Catalogue of Strong earthquakes in Italy from 462 BC up to 2010 (database now INGV). We have a disaster every 4-5 years, even with relatively low magnitude (5.5 to 5.8). We have tried to shed light on the causes: the character of the buildings (65% is before 1950), an extended presence of old and poor houses, lack of earthquake standards. But even when there were laws, weak institutional and political instability have underestimated the importance of applying seismic safety, though again and again emanating. Another important element, especially in the last 50 years, is the lack of information on seismic risk in the population..."

The book is organized by the Euro-Mediterranean documentation EXTREME EVENTS AND DISASTERS, in collaboration with the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.

THE COVER

The book show 258 pictures and 43 maps of the seismic effects strictly based on scientific data that are especially processed for this rigorous and brilliant work

DIANO MARINA LIGURIA, 1887

L'AQUILA, 2009

A REPORT BY VALERIO CALABRESE (IN ITALIAN)

IN ITALIA CHE VIVI BY SIMONE FAGIOLI

FROM BONONIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

LIVE EARTHQUAKE IN EMILIA ROMAGNA (SKY TG24)

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Encouraging cross-disciplinary engagement:

1. Strengthening of communication and collaboration between earthquake engineering disciplines (structural engineering, seismology, lifelines engineering, emergency response and social sciences); architectural, urban planning and landscape architecture disciplines; and policy-makers and government authorities.

2. Establishing a common vocabulary of earthquake-resilience terminology across disciplines.

3. Active participation of architects and urban planners in the development of regulations that affect the earthquake-resilience of buildings.

4. Development and implementation of a cross-disciplinary approach in the design of cities, and the consideration of the city as a system where all components are interrelated.

5. Participation of city officials, decision makers and associations of architects and urban planners in controlling the application of seismic concepts in the design, planning and construction processes of the built components of cities.

6. Teaching cross-discipline courses in undergraduate and graduate schools of architecture, city urban planning and structural engineering, including the influence of urban planning and architectural configurations on seismic resilience of cities.

THE FOUNDERS OF INDERC

Teresa Guevara-Perez

Graduated as an Architect from the Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela and has a postgraduate Diploma in Industrialized Building from the Architectural Association Graduate School in London, a Master and a Ph.D. in Architecture, specializing in earthquake-resistant building at the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked as a researcher in the field of public housing and as an independent consultant on the Architecture of earthquake-resistant buildings, the seismic vulnerability of hospitals, urban configurations in seismic zones, and earthquake disaster mitigation. She is the author of various books, and papers, and articles published in specialized technical journals.

Alice Tavares Costa

Is an Architect who practises in Portugal. She is a researcher at Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (CEC- FEUP). Now is developing her doctoral thesis at Department of Civil Engineering of University of Aveiro. She has a special interest in the conservation of the Earth's Heritage with respect to seismic concerns, historical earthquakes, and the traditional systems of construction in seismic regions. She is the President of Portugal CICOP.Net.

Adriana Guisasola

Is an Architect who practices in Mendoza, Argentina. She teaches at the Faculty of Architecture, Urban and Desing of Mendoza University. She is specialist in Prevention, Planning and Management of Disaster Prone Areas and a specialist in Seismic Design. She has a special interest in Seismic Architectural Design with New Technologies of Seismic Protection. Now is developing her doctoral Thesis of Architecture: “Architecture and Base Isolation”. She is also the President of Arquitectura Sísmica S.A. and the President of the Seismic Architecture Foundation (FAS).

Luke Allen

Is an Architect who practises in Wellington, New Zealand, and teaches at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Architecture. He has a special interest in seismic design and design for resilience, and is a member of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. He is also Secretary and Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Institute of Architects Wellington Branch.

Antonio Aretxabala Díez

Is a Geologist who practises in Spain, and teaches at the University of Navarre School of Architecture and Sciences. He has a special interest in the seismic effects on cities through the ground as a whole system as well as in the design of resilience mitigation tools through Urban Planning. He participated actively in the design for the resilience of Lorca (Spain) with the University of Murcia, the Federation of Business Owners of Lorca, and other enterprises and official organizations. He is also the Technical Director of the Laboratory of Buildings at the University of Navarre's School of Architecture.

Cristina Sanz

Graduated as an Architect from the University of Navarre, Spain has a Ph.D. in Architecture, specializing in structures at the School of Architecture of the same University. She has worked as a researcher in the field of quality control in building and reinforced concrete structures. During the period 2007-2011 she was the responsible of the Urbanism Area of the Town Hall of Tafalla (Navarre). Author of various books, papers and articles, she practices in Pamplona, Spain and has a special interest in quality control of reinforced concrete structures, regarding among others, seismic actions as well as in the relationship between the resilience of cities in seismic prone areas and Urban Planning design criteria.

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