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The state of emergency: the construction of the wall and the people’s disagreements The state of emergency: the construction of the wall and the people’s disagreements
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Local communities: ‘us’ against ‘them’ Local communities: ‘us’ against ‘them’
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1 Risk Perception, Climate Change and Disasters of the Alpine Environments: The Mont de La Saxe Landslide
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Published:January 2024
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Alpine environments are facing a set of complex changes due to climate change impacts such as glaciers and permafrost melting, slope instability, landslides, avalanches and extremes events. These play an increasingly crucial role for the future of those who live there. This chapter analyses the case of the Mont de La Saxe landslide (in the Italian sector of Mont Blanc) from an anthropological perspective. The landslide involves a large sector of the southern side of Mont de la Saxe. It threatens both Entrèves and La Palud, two densely populated villages in Courmayeur, a well-known tourism area. The landslide also threatens the E25, an important highway crossing continental Europe from north to south. This chapter will focus on how local communities respond to this long-term disaster with particular attention on perception (memory, history, culture) and on practices carried out to be prepared and to mitigate the potential devastating effects. The ethnographic research was carried out between 2016 and 2017 among some alpine communities located in the Ferret valley and has explored the local risk perception and the practices and policies enacted to face the emergency.
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