Abstract

Socio-Natural Disasters are a reality that human beings have lived with for as long as they can remember. Despite the efforts made to eradicate them in Chile and the world, there are still several technical, regulatory, institutional, and ethical shortcomings, which have made a problem persist that many believed they could eradicate with the advances of modern science and a thick national and international institutionality, reflecting a utilitarian remnant. The explicit ethical gap in the discussion has led to contributions from academia and disciplines such as Geography that have overcome the technical-scientific barrier, including concepts from the Rawlsian occidental approach to social justice. Although it is a significant advance, because it is a global problem, progress must be made towards a discussion that includes all the visions and all the components of the problem, that is, to the Earth and its biotic community. This work proposes the ethical principle of The Land Ethics offered by Aldo Leopold as the basis for starting a new discussion that goes beyond the anthropocentrism frontier that has limited the possibilities of a more sustainable solution regarding the reduction of the Risk of Socio-Natural Disasters.