The Complicity of Urban Planning in Building Territories at Risk: the Case of the Urban Flooding in the Harbor-City of Talcahuano (PAP014399)

Código

PAP014399

Autores

Felipe Enrico Bucci Ancapi, Alejandro Lara

Tema

Urban Floods

Resumo

The earthquake and tsunami in Chile in 2010, served to highlight the situationaround the country about how disasters and human settlements are managed. This researchfocuses on identifying the main social, economic and environmental effects of urban planningprocesses, implemented in Talcahuano between 1990 and 2010, were generated in the territoryand how these are linked to the risk of flooding. For this, we used a mixed methodologicalapproach, which involves observing the existing risk and hazard mapping, documentaryanalysis of planning instruments and prevailing legislation, and; the design of an index of social,economic and environmental effects that allows their hierarchical organization.The main results establish that the urban planning processes carried out in the port city ofTalcahuano, between 1990 and 2010, contributed to the exposure of different communities tothe risk of flooding. This, by the repeated changes in land use plans and the dysfunctionality ofthe decisions concerning to the local administration and the central government of the country.Also displayed, even the communal economy has been boosted through various land useplanning processes, loss of flora and fauna is evident in the territory.