Adaptive Capacity as Local Sustainable Development: Contextualizing and Comparing Risks and Resilience in Two Chilean Regions

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dc.contributor.authorBarton, Jonathan R.
dc.contributor.authorGutierrez-Antinopai, Felipe
dc.contributor.authorEscalona Ulloa, Miguel
dc.date2021
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-04T18:54:31Z
dc.date.available2021-10-04T18:54:31Z
dc.description.abstractRegional resilience refers to an immanent condition for facing multiple risks on a permanent basis, both episodic and incremental. These risks are not only linked to natural disasters and climate change, but also to poverty and inequality of access to services such as health, and personal safety. This article considers the underlying conditions that shape regional resilience in Chile, based on inter-regional and intra-regional comparisons in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago and the Region of Araucania. Instead of viewing resilience in terms of an ability to counter a single risk, the article highlights the fact that risks are multiple and overlapping over time and generated at different scales. Municipal level data on poverty, health, and public finances in the two regions reveal the contrasting underlying inequalities that point to regional mosaics of resilience rather than homogeneity. Different threats are superposed on these preexisting conditions of resilience. The article refers to three in particular: the 2010 Chilean earthquake (episodic); climate change (episodic and incremental); and the Covid-19 pandemic (episodic). The findings point to high levels of urban versus rural differentiation, and also high differentiation within the Santiago Metropolitan Area based on socio-economic conditions. This regional mosaic of underlying structural conditions suggests that regional resilience can be enhanced by engaging with structural socio-spatial inequalities rather than a focus on managing risks via siloed, threat-by-threat responses.
dc.identifier.citationSUSTAINABILITY,Vol.13,,2021
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/su13094660
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositoriodigital.uct.cl/handle/10925/4324
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.sourceSUSTAINABILITY
dc.subject.englishresilience
dc.subject.englishrisk
dc.subject.englishinequality
dc.subject.englishearthquake
dc.subject.englishpandemic
dc.subject.englishclimate change
dc.subject.englishChile
dc.subject.english
dc.titleAdaptive Capacity as Local Sustainable Development: Contextualizing and Comparing Risks and Resilience in Two Chilean Regions
dc.typeArticle
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