Eleonora Montuschi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Eleonora Montuschi plays a role.
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2018 Chapter 1. The dam project: Who are the experts? A philosophical lesson from the Vajont disaster Science and Democracy: Controversies and conflicts, Barrotta, Pierluigi and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 17–34 | Chapter
In 1963 a huge landslide covered the Vajont valley (north-east of Italy), where one of the tallest arch dams in the world had been put in place (completed in 1959). More than 2000 people died. The locals had repeatedly warned the scientists that the sides of the valley were too fragile to hold… read more