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VOX POPULI: Italy’s enviable post-disaster structure was not built in a day

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05.10.2024

In the immediate aftermath of a major disaster in Italy, survivors can count on being accommodated in fully air-conditioned tents and getting hot meals, and having ready access to restrooms and showers.

But facilities and services such as these do not exist for disaster survivors in Japan, even though Italy is just as disaster-prone.

The Italian situation is often cited as a model case. However, the Italians did not get there without many twists and turns.

Italy’s disaster management authorities still vow to “never forget” the Friuli earthquake of 1976, which occurred in the Friuli region in northeastern Italy and killed about 1,000 people.

Seven years later, I had the opportunity to........

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