Governance of Risk, Hazards and Disasters (PDF)

Sara Bonati is associate researcher at the Center of Local and Regional Studies (CIERL - Centro de estudos locais e regionais), University of Madeira (Portugal). She holds a Ph.D. in Human and Physical Geography at the Veneto Doctoral School in Historical, Geographical and Anthropological studies, University of Padua (Italy). She has several published and in-press papers in international academic publications. She has coordinated the editorial board of the edited volume (Dis)memory of Disasters: An interdisciplinary approach, Funchal, Portugal (in press 2015). With G.M. Valent and M. Tononi, she is editing a book proposal for the Routledge series 'Regions and Cities'. Her research interests include: disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, disaster resilience building, risk perception, human rights in disasters, disaster cultures, rural and urban studies.

Lina Maria Calandra is Associate Professor in Geography at the Department of Human Studies, University of L'Aquila (Italy). She teaches Geography and Cartography and is the head of the cartographic laboratory 'Cartolab'. Her fields of research are the geography of colonialism in Africa, as well as the problems of conservation with a focus on the relationships between environmental conflicts and local development in Africa and in the Apennines. Since the aftermath of the earthquake in L'Aquila on 6 April 2009, she has been analysing the social geography of vulnerability and resilience in the city, and mapping the social and territorial consequences of hazards and disasters. She has been editor of the journal Terra d'Africa. She has published several articles in national and international peer-review journals. She has published the books Atlante del turismo sostenibile in Africa (2007), Progetto geografia. Percorsi di riflessione e didattica (2007 and 2009), and as has edited the books Territorio e Democrazia. Un laboratorio di geografia sociale nel doposisma aquilano (2012) on social geography in post-disaster L'Aquila, and Multiple Geographical Perspectives on Hazards and Disasters (2014), with G. Forino and A. Porru.