Università Roma Tre

1. Introduction: aims of the seminar and reference discipline(s).
2. Natural disasters from a physical point of view, methods of prevention.
3. Disasters in History, institutional changes.
4. Disasters today: emergency, damage and resilience.
5. Risk management, institutional arrangements.
6. Emergency management, comparative experiences.
7. Models of reconstruction, socio-political approach.
8. Reconstruction models, market models.
9. Reconstruction models, public policy models.
10. Introduction to impact assessment.
11. Empirical evidence in the world.
12. Reference framework for empirical analysis of a case study on natural disasters. Identification of working groups and guided choice of case studies. Course conclusions.