Co-production after an urban forest fire: post-disaster reconstruction of an informal settlement in Chile

Abstract

Disasters are not just the result of extreme natural events but are also affected by complex governance scenarios, social vulnerability, existing infrastructure, and housing reconstruction policies. This paper is an examination of a social housing construction process following destruction by an urban forest fire in an informal settlement in Valparaíso, Chile in 2017. The paper compares this process, in all its complexity, to that following another very destructive fire three years earlier in the same area. Rather than taking the standard hierarchical model of social housing reconstruction that often follows a disaster, this more recent process in Valparaíso, in response to a new 2016 national policy, attempted to make use of co-production, most notably through a collaborative design workshop. This paper examines the entire social housing reconstruction process, focusing in particular detail on this design workshop, and it assesses the degree to which co-production has been successfully introduced into this process.

Understanding Community-Level Flooding Awareness in Remote Coastal Towns in Northern Chile through Community Mapping

“…Main characteristics of the different forms of participatory mapping used in this study. Adapted from [40,42,43]. Note.…”

El acceso al agua en asentamientos informales. El caso de Valparaíso, Chile

“…Al superponer los datos cartográficos de fuentes oficiales con los levantamientos ortofotogramétricos, se constata que la mayoría de los asentamientos informales de Valparaíso se localizan en la Zona de Interfaz Urbano Forestal (Ojeda, Bacigalupe y Pino, 2018) y se encuentran entre la cota 100 y 400 msnm, teniendo como frontera el llamado "camino de cintu- [13] En la región de Valparaíso operan dos empresas privadas: ESVAL S.A. y Cooperativa de Agua Potable Santo Domingo Ltda.…”

“…Mientras en el año 2016 ONU-Habitat señalaba que el 9% de la población vivía en asentamientos informales, el gobierno de Chile declaraba que era solo el 0.49%. Este delta responde a que el enfoque utilizado por el gobierno se centra en la tenencia legal del suelo y la vivienda [8] (Pino y Ojeda, 2013;Calderón Cockburn, 2011), invisibilizando el déficit infraestructural y urbano asociado a dichos asentamientos (Ojeda, Bacigalupe y Pino, 2018;Inostroza, 2017), así como aquellos de origen informal [9] (Pino, 2015;Paz Castro, et al, 2015). Es decir, los asentamientos informales (sin tenencia) suelen estar contiguos a asentamientos de origen formal (con tenencia), lo que genera sistemas socioespaciales de alta precariedad infraestructural y urbana [10] (Pino, 2015;Paz Castro, et al, 2015).…”

‘Supertanker is a Hero, the Government a Villain’: Politicization of Chile’s 2017 Forest Fires in the Media

“…Disasters as a 'field of study' (Lindell, 2013;Rodríguez et al, 2007) have been addressed in different registers: some have paid attention to the role of materialities and the agency of non-human actors in disasters (Rodríguez-Giralt et al, 2014); others have studied emergency preparedness, political disaster management and its impact on governance and knowledge about disasters (Clark, 2014); a further line of research focuses on the legitimacy of democratic institutions in the face of disasters (Carlin et al, 2014), while others focus on repair technologies and participatory policies to address disasters (Ojeda et al, 2018).…”