ChileGlobal Seminars UK

2013 – 2014

Edited by Elizabeth Wagemann, Bernardita Devilat, Dana Brablec, Marcos Stuardo and Cristian Soza

EditorsElizabeth Wagemann Bernardita DevilatDana Brablec Marcos StuardoCristian Soza

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

FOREWORD

OPEN CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | LLAMADO A PRESENTACIONES

I SEMINAR: URBAN STUDIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS

II SEMINAR: DISASTERS, EMERGENCIES AND RECONSTRUCTION

III SEMINAR: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

IV SEMINAR: MUSIC

V SEMINAR: EDUCATION

VI SEMINAR: APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES IN MEDICAL SCIENCES

VII SEMINAR: ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN CHILE

VIII SEMINAR: POVERTY AND INEQUALITY

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ORGANISING COMMITTEE CHILEGLOBAL SEMINARS UK

PRESENTERS’ AFILLIATION

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21C h i l e G l o b a l S e m i n a r s U K 2 0 1 3 - 2 0 1 4

14th November 2013

Venue: Room 1.01. Wates House. The Bartlett School of Architecture. University College London. 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB.

Chair: Bernardita Devilat

Programme:

- Vicente Sandoval – University College London: ‘Community vs. State in Post-disaster Context: Uneven Outcomes on Environmental Justice and Resilience in Chaitén’

- Juan Sebastián Lama– London School of Economics: ‘Redistributing Responsibilities. A Comparative Analysis on Public Participation Methods After the 2010`s Earthquake and Tsunami’

- Ignacia Ossul – Techo UK: ‘Earthquakes: Immediate or Permanent Crisis? The Case of TECHO in Slums’

- Elizabeth Wagemann – University of Cambridge: ‘Transition to What? From Shelter to House After the 2010’s Earthquake in Chile’

- Questions and answers, and final debate about the presentations

II SEMINAR: DISASTERS, EMERGENCIES AND RECONSTRUCTION

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In May 2008, the remote city of Chaitén was evacuated due to the risk of a volcano eruption. Few days later, severe floods drove to the destruction of the almost entire city. In the months following the disaster, the Government developed projects which failed into relocate the city to a safer location as well as strategies to support the affected population aimed to improve community resilience.

Contradictory institutional policies as well as unforeseen effects of implemented bond schemes have resulted in a highly segregated and environmentally unjust city where public policies’ outputs are unevenly distributed. Thus, this paper addresses how some related processes of increasing resilience might negatively impact environmental justice, hence exploring a potential inverse relationship between resilience and justice.

Five years on, nearly half of the population have returned to Chaitén despite the refusal of the authorities and the city apparently has returned to life. While northern Chaitén

concentrates most of the population and investment, 160 families living in the southern Chaitén bear the lack of potable water and other basic services, and are more vulnerable to future disaster impacts. Split in two due to both geography and policies, Chaitén faces now two realities.

Keywords: Chaitén, community resilience, environmental justice, post-disaster policies, vulnerability

Community vs. State in Post-disaster Context: Uneven Outcomes on Environmental

Justice and Resilience in Chaitén

VICENTE SANDOVAL, CLAUDIA GONZÁLEZ AND CRISTIAN ALBORNOZ

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