Public parks and open spaces have long served as resources for communities to both prepare for and recover from environmental disasters. Inspired by Japan’s disaster prevention parks and their research on the 2023 Turkey earthquakes, the speakers present related strategies to be incorporated into emergency responses, temporary shelters, and rebuilding efforts.
Learning Outcomes:
Understand the importance of public, communal space in devastated communities in the crucial first 72 hours, and in “temporary” container settlements that can last five to ten years.
Understand how public space can be integrated into rebuilding plans for disaster-torn communities and into existing communities as resilience and preparedness spaces.
Learn what programming is necessary to facilitate social, economic, and community renewal in devastated areas and the importance of open space networks in addressing multiple risks.
Identify integral parties (NGOs, municipal agencies, neighborhood groups, minority communities, professionals, and academics) to develop sociocultural, agricultural, and environmental interventions to sustain culturally aware community resilience.
