On Wednesday 17 June at 11.00 in Rome, in the Aula Oriana of the Department of Communication and Social Research of the Sapienza University of Rome in Via Salaria 113, there will be the presentation of the volume, published by FrancoAngeli, Earthquakes, communication, law. Reflections on the trial of the "Major Risks Commission", by Alessandro Amato and Fabrizio Galadini, both seismologists of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv) and by Andrea Cerase, sociologist of communication.
The volume, whose rights have been entirely devolved to a non-profit organization from L'Aquila, aims to start from the analysis of the two trials held in L'Aquila against the "Major Risks Commission", to relaunch a debate on the mitigation of seismic risk and other risks natural.
The complexity of the topics was addressed with an interdisciplinary approach. In its 372 pages, the volume contains essays by 22 authors including seismologists, geologists, engineers, sociologists, psychologists, jurists, science journalists, experts and academics, including foreign ones, who accurately outline the critical issues emerging in the two processes, outlining a critical perspective with respect to the judgments and proactive with respect to the future.
In the work, updated to the appeal sentence published on 10 February last, the scientific and legal issues dealt with are examined in detail, highlighting the worrying tendency to unload the responsibilities of choices regarding the mitigation of natural risks onto experts and scientists.
Currently there are over 25 million Italians who live in areas classified as highly seismic (zone 1 + zone 2) and just under 3 million who live in areas with very high seismicity (zone 1), without counting the potentially 6.3 million people exposed to tsunamis in only the 10 most populous Italian coastal municipalities and the over 2 million people exposed to volcanic risk (Vesuvius + Campi Flegrei) in the hinterland of Naples alone.
The debate, coordinated by Marco Cattaneo, director of "Le Scienze", will be attended, among others, by Stefano Gresta, President of Ingv, Mario Morcellini, director of the Department of Communication and Social Research, Leonardo Cannavò, full professor and sociologist of science and Marco Magheri, deputy general secretary of the Italian Association of public and institutional communication.
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