...Mariano Del Pópolo Purpose This article examines the militarization of disaster response in the Americas, focusing on the alliance between the USA and Chile (2010–2020). It analyzes how the USA promoted this agenda through the “New Threats” security doctrine in regional forums, with Chile playing...

...Jorge León; María Ignacia Rojas; Soraya Gutiérrez; Randy Román Purpose To critically assess the reconstruction process's outcomes four months after a wildfire disaster in Viña del Mar, Chile, comparing the governmental reconstruction plan and the actual rebuilding efforts by the dwellers...

... For this article, four focus groups were conducted, all of them composed of people directly involved in the earthquake and tsunami in Chile on February 27, 2010, two of them made up of women and the other two of men. Findings The research revealed that male leadership during the response and recovery processes...

... re-use rights only Chile Colonialism ndigenous people Mapping COVID-19 Disaster studies Mapuche The National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development ANID/FONDECYT/3201027 ANID/FONDECYT/3198067 Heidelberg Center for Latin America (HCLA) ANID/FONDECYT/11180970...

... collaborations of authors with communities across Chile. Findings The findings suggest that agency, local scale, memory and vulnerability, as fundamental concepts for disaster risk reduction (DRR) theory and practice, need to allow for ambivalences, ironies, granularization and further materializations...

...Vicente Sandoval; Claudia Gonzalez-Muzzio; Carlos Villalobos; Juan Pablo Sarmiento; Gabriela Hoberman Purpose This paper examines disaster capitalism in Chile, that is, the relationships between disasters and neoliberalism. It looks at two post-disaster dimensions: disasters as windows...

...Hugo Romero; Cristian Albornoz Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the political and economic objectives sought by the government of Chile to understand the characteristics of the reconstruction process for housing damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of 27 February 2010...

...Paulina Aldunce; Alejandro León Purpose This paper seeks to propose measures to improve management of rainfall‐related disasters in Chile. Design/methodology/approach This research was carried out as a case study in the semi‐arid region of Chile where above‐normal rainy events occur once...