Understanding Uncertainty in Cultural Landscape. A Hermeneutical Approach to Catastrophe

Catastrophes are usually perceived as exceptional and unpredictable events that very rarely take place and cause a range of damage often extreme to the spatial system. Traditional technical and scientific approaches to the geography of disasters has often taken into consideration hazard just by considering scenarios pre and post-event from a narrow statistical and probabilistic vision of vulnerability and mitigation of risks and a widespread idea of reconstruction of the previous conditions if possible, instead of considering hazard as a close result of the strong linkage between nature and society that conforms cultural landscape, this is, just inherent to the cultural landscape system.