Abstract

Chile is constantly besieged by events of anthropic and natural origin that, in most cases, result in disasters or catastrophes that human and material loses of diverse intensity, whose cost is combined with that associated with successive reconstruction processes that must be implemented. However, the presence of threats in a territory not always lead to the unleashing of a disaster; and this is where the main contribution of disaster risk management lies, which can be corrective, reactive or prospective. This article seeks to know how the natural disasters that have occurred in Chile in the last decade have influenced the incorporation of risk management within the existing urban regulations in Chile. The foregoing is part of a hypothesis that suggests that inclusion seems to be rather scarce, and when it happens, it tends to focus mainly on a reactive disaster risk management.