The self-built ecovillage in L'Aquila, Italy: Community resilience as a grassroots response to environmental shock

Disasters

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 719-739

  Fois, Francesca ^a   Forino, Giuseppe ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community resilience; Disaster recovery; Earthquake; Ecovillage; Italy; L'Aquila; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

AQUILA;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY RESILIENCE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTER RECOVERY; EARTHQUAKE; ECOVILLAGE; HUMAN; ITALY; L'AQUILA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SUSTAINABILITY;

COMMUNITY RESILIENCE; DISASTER RECOVERY; EARTHQUAKE; ECOVILLAGE; ITALY; L'AQUILA; SUSTAINABILITY;

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKES; HUMANS; ITALY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84907992597     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/disa.12080     Document Type: Article

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