Ricerc@Sapienza

The paper explores the legal nature of the obligations to provide assistance in the case of natural disasters and, in particular, the duty to share remote sensing images as a mean to improve disaster response. This analysis takes into account that the international legal frameworks concerning natural disaster management and remote sensing activities are based, mainly, on general principles, sometimes specified in international treaties or non-binding instruments.

In this article, we investigated the presence of trauma-induced sequelae in a sample of 41 young individuals exposed to the L’Aquila earthquake who did not seek mental help in the aftermath of the disaster or in the ensuing months. We compared this group with 43 individuals, matched for age and education, who had not experienced an earthquake but had moved to and lived in L’Aquila after the earthquake and thus experienced the challenges of living in an earthquake-struck city.