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1219 | 339 | Gaps in the integration of actors and their knowledge in disaster risk management: an experience of an informal settlement in Chile | Katherine Campos-Knothe

In Chile the disaster risk management (DRM) has been understood as a domain ruled by a top-down approach and limited involvement of the local actors (Tironi & Manriquez, 2019). In addition to this, DRM strategies do not include specifically the reality of informal settlements in Chile (Flores et al, 2019). In this sense, taking the experience with one Chilean informal settlement, I will show in this presentation how the participatory mapping along with the application of the Vulnerability and Capacity Model (Anderson & Woodrow, 1988) allow to understand and identify the risks and hazards that are more important for people who live in those settlements. These risks and hazards go beyond the risks identified by the public authorities in risk studies. Also, this presentation will show the lack of coordination inside the public sector in relation to urban planning, DRM and housing solutions. I argue that the lack of dialogue between public actors and inhabitants of informal settlements and also, within the public sector, could reinforce the everyday hazards (Gaillard et al, 2019) experienced by informal settlement inhabitants. I discuss that the vulnerability to disaster risk might be produced by action or omission of the sectoral public policies. The sectoral public policies could improve the living conditions of the population if they intervened together, especially the life of people in precarious situations like those who live in informal settlements. Improving the living conditions is essential for an effective disaster risk reduction strategy (Wisner et al, 2003). This presentation will show some findings of my PhD thesis, developed in informal settlements of Copiapó city (north of Chile) with qualitative methods._x000D_
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Author: KATHERINE CAMPOS KNOTHE_x000D_
kvcampos@uc.cl / katherine.campos@cigiden.cl_x000D_
Sociologist, U. de Concepción, Chile_x000D_
MA in International Social Policy, U. of Nottingham, UK_x000D_
PhD © in Sociology, Universidad Católica de Chile_x000D_
Researcher at CIGIDEN_x000D_
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Katherine Campos-Knothe
CIGIDEN / Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

 
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