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Social-environmental resilience of Croatian rural areas to seismic hazards: 2020 earthquake in Sisak-Moslavina County

The aim of this paper is to examine the resilience of Croatian rural areas and their population with regards to the strong 2020 earthquake, which caused significant damage to the Sisak-Moslavina County. The earthquake hit on 29 December 2020, with the magnitude 6.4 Mw (6.2 ML), and maximum felt intensity estimated at VIII to IX (heavily damaging to destructive) on the European macro- seismic scale. We will rely on existing official data provided by the European Union institutions, Croatian government, as well as other official bodies such as the Red Cross, in order to map the physical impact of the earthquake in Sisak- Moslavina County. We will then conduct deep semi- structured interviews with the members of key governmental and non-governmental organizations, who can offer first-hand information about the social impacts of the earthquake. Finally, we will also conduct interviews with local rural population in order to better understand their ways of coping with this disaster. This research will be conducted as part of the project SECRURAL funded by Croatian National Science Foundation (UIP-2019-04-5257). The results will provide us with detailed analysis regarding environmental physical effects as well as social impact of the 2020 earthquake in Croatian rural areas and its population. On the basis of our results and conclusions, we will offer public policies recommendations for strengthening rural resilience to potential future seismic and other natural disasters.

sociology of disasters, rural sociology, earthquake, rural areas, Croatia

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