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Building governance reform without accountability transfer invites urban disaster

Yasemin D. Aktaş, Cassidy Johnson

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Building governance reforms can displace accountability rather than transfer it. The 2023 Türkiye earthquake disaster – in which formally inspected, post-reform buildings collapsed at scale – exemplifies this failure mode and reveals the institutional conditions required for genuine accountability transfer.

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Appeared: Saturday, September 26. Nature Communications. Peer-reviewed journal.

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-78062-2