Social innovation and natural disasters: the "Casa Italia" Plan

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Francesco Pagliacci, Margherita Russo, Laura Sartori
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2017/113 Language English
Pages 16 P. 87-102 File size 643 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2017-113006
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This article critically reads the Plan "Casa Italia" in light of a Social Innovation approach combined with a socio-economic perspective, underlying the main challenges the Plan faces to be effectively implemented. It also discusses some policy implications. The Plan could serve as an efficient tool for social innovation only when it integrates a socio-economic perspective within its dominant engineering and technical matrix.

Keywords: Territorial resilience, process, social innovation, natural disasters, risk reduction, risk prevention.

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Francesco Pagliacci, Margherita Russo, Laura Sartori, Social innovation and natural disasters: the "Casa Italia" Plan in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 113/2017, pp 87-102, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2017-113006