Abstract

This exploratory work seeks to shed light on disaster governance by looking into potential linkages between the produc-tion of vulnerability and disaster governance in Chile. Our point of investigation is the case of post-disaster Chaitén andthe Chilean model of Disaster Risk Management. The work begins by situating disaster governance and the production ofvulnerability in a broader context of existing governance system that includes a multiplicity of actors and socio-economic,socio-ecological, and political processes. Coming from a multi-scalar perspective, we use the disaster Pressure and Release(PAR) model to enable a differentiated analysis of the multiplicity of actors, rules, and processes related to DRM that par-ticipate in the production of disaster vulnerability in the current Chaitén. With this we address the questions as to ‘why’the Chilean model of DRM is prominently centralised and ‘what’ are the effects on the production of disaster vulnerabilityfor the case of post-disaster Chaitén.