Down To Earth: Cornell Conversations About

In this episode, Pam, Marta, Danielle, and our newest team member Kate, discuss a recent seminar we attended on Resilient Landscapes. The speaker, Massimo Sargolini, is a Professor of Urban Planning at the School of Architecture and Design, UNICAM-University of Camerino in Italy. He investigates the relationship between Urban landscape and quality of life. We pulled in aspects of his talk in this episode, while we discussed some of the wider philosophy around his approach to studying community resilience. The examples he used in his talk were of the string of earthquakes that hit central Italy in 2016. He also describes the risk of volcanic eruptions in highly populated places. He is hopeful that their approach to understanding how people interact with nature and vice versa, can help transform existing communities into ones that are better able to withstand increasing risks to natural disasters.