Disaster Governance and Vulnerability: The Case of Chile

Vicente Sandoval and Martin Voss
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Vicente Sandoval: Disaster Research Unit, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Martin Voss: Disaster Research Unit, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Politics and Governance, 2016, vol. 4, issue 4, 107-116

Abstract: This exploratory work seeks to shed light on disaster governance by looking into potential linkages between the production of vulnerability and disaster governance in Chile. Our point of investigation is the case of post-disaster Chaitén and the Chilean model of Disaster Risk Management. The work begins by situating disaster governance and the production of vulnerability in a broader context of existing governance system that includes a multiplicity of actors and socio-economic, socio-ecological, and political processes. Coming from a multi-scalar perspective, we use the disaster Pressure and Release (PAR) model to enable a differentiated analysis of the multiplicity of actors, rules, and processes related to DRM that participate in the production of disaster vulnerability in the current Chaitén. With this we address the questions as to ‘why’ the Chilean model of DRM is prominently centralised and ‘what’ are the effects on the production of disaster vulnerability for the case of post-disaster Chaitén.

Keywords: Chile; disaster governance; disasters; vulnerability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.17645/pag.v4i4.743

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