Complexity and knowledge, two open issues facing emergency

Journal title ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI
Author/s Mattia Bertin
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2015/113
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 44-59 File size 61 KB
DOI 10.3280/ASUR2015-113003
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Paper’s purpose is to face some issues linked to emergency management. Crosscutting emergency preparation and management, the article will review two relevant aspects of city’s preparedness: complexity and knowledge. The aim is to put urban government in relation with emergency studies, trying realize a constellation of some limits of a separated fields risk management model. Conclusions would try to face the emerged dyscrasias, showing the positive effects that a governance approach could have.

Keywords: Emergency plan; disaster; governance; risk; complexity

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Mattia Bertin, Complessità e conoscenza, due questioni aperte nel confronto con l’emergenza in "ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI" 113/2015, pp 44-59, DOI: 10.3280/ASUR2015-113003