Coping Strategies and Tactics to Deal With Social Vulnerability in the Flood Disaster of March 25, 2015, in Chañaral and Diego de Almagro, Chile
A socio-natural disaster event exacerbates pre-existing socio-economic crises and disrupts the life projects of the people affected, generating the deployment of strategic or tactical actions to deal with it. When societies have populations living in conditions of social vulnerability prior to disas...
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| description | A socio-natural disaster event exacerbates pre-existing socio-economic crises and disrupts the life projects of the people affected, generating the deployment of strategic or tactical actions to deal with it. When societies have populations living in conditions of social vulnerability prior to disasters, such actions are more complex and difficult to manage. On March 25, 2015 (25M), the inhabitants of the towns of Chañaral and Diego de Almagro, in the Atacama Region of Chile, were faced with a flood that produced a crisis of great magnitude. This qualitative research describes the actions the inhabitants used to reduce social vulnerability, before, during and after the emergency. These actions were analyzed to describe the extent of planning, meanings, resources and structures of opportunities present in the actions. Content analysis was carried out on semi-structured interviews with 38 affected people, selected using intentional sampling technique together with snowball sampling. Subjective resources were identified: sense of family, solidarity, autonomy and restitution of rights. The superimposed mobilization of these resources resulted in a complex situation of resilience. It is concluded that the way of learning actions includes family and cultural habits, daily learning and previous experiences, and imitation, among others. Recommendations are made to be considered for the reduction of risks of socio-natural disasters. Specifically, policies that include educational strategies that are based on theways of acting shown by the communities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c8f137f269b421784131e7ed61c6c952022-12-22T01:01:26ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Climate2624-95532022-03-01410.3389/fclim.2022.763413763413Coping Strategies and Tactics to Deal With Social Vulnerability in the Flood Disaster of March 25, 2015, in Chañaral and Diego de Almagro, ChileSonia Pérez Tello0Sonia Pérez Tello1Paulina Aldunce Ide2Paulina Aldunce Ide3Paulina Aldunce Ide4Fernanda Flores-Haverbeck5Dania Mena Maldonado6Carmen Paz Castro Correa7Carmen Paz Castro Correa8Katherine Wyndham Vásquez9Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, University of Chile, Santiago, ChileCenter for Disaster Risk Reduction, Centro de Investigación Transdisciplinaria en Riesgo de Desastres (CITRID), University of Chile, Santiago, ChileCenter for Disaster Risk Reduction, Centro de Investigación Transdisciplinaria en Riesgo de Desastres (CITRID), University of Chile, Santiago, ChileCenter for Climate and Resilience Research, Santiago, ChileDepartment of Environmental Science and Renewable Natural Resources, Faculty of Agricultural Science, University of Chile, Santiago, ChileDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, University of Chile, Santiago, ChileRenewable Natural Resources, Faculty of Agricultural Science, University of Chile, Santiago, ChileCenter for Disaster Risk Reduction, Centro de Investigación Transdisciplinaria en Riesgo de Desastres (CITRID), University of Chile, Santiago, ChileDepartment of Geography, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Chile, Santiago, ChileDepartment of Geography, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Chile, Santiago, ChileA socio-natural disaster event exacerbates pre-existing socio-economic crises and disrupts the life projects of the people affected, generating the deployment of strategic or tactical actions to deal with it. When societies have populations living in conditions of social vulnerability prior to disasters, such actions are more complex and difficult to manage. On March 25, 2015 (25M), the inhabitants of the towns of Chañaral and Diego de Almagro, in the Atacama Region of Chile, were faced with a flood that produced a crisis of great magnitude. This qualitative research describes the actions the inhabitants used to reduce social vulnerability, before, during and after the emergency. These actions were analyzed to describe the extent of planning, meanings, resources and structures of opportunities present in the actions. Content analysis was carried out on semi-structured interviews with 38 affected people, selected using intentional sampling technique together with snowball sampling. Subjective resources were identified: sense of family, solidarity, autonomy and restitution of rights. The superimposed mobilization of these resources resulted in a complex situation of resilience. It is concluded that the way of learning actions includes family and cultural habits, daily learning and previous experiences, and imitation, among others. Recommendations are made to be considered for the reduction of risks of socio-natural disasters. Specifically, policies that include educational strategies that are based on theways of acting shown by the communities.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2022.763413/fullstrategies and tacticssocio-natural disasterChilefloodsMarch 25 (25M)resilience |
| spellingShingle | Sonia Pérez Tello Sonia Pérez Tello Paulina Aldunce Ide Paulina Aldunce Ide Paulina Aldunce Ide Fernanda Flores-Haverbeck Dania Mena Maldonado Carmen Paz Castro Correa Carmen Paz Castro Correa Katherine Wyndham Vásquez Coping Strategies and Tactics to Deal With Social Vulnerability in the Flood Disaster of March 25, 2015, in Chañaral and Diego de Almagro, Chile Frontiers in Climate strategies and tactics socio-natural disaster Chile floods March 25 (25M) resilience |
| title | Coping Strategies and Tactics to Deal With Social Vulnerability in the Flood Disaster of March 25, 2015, in Chañaral and Diego de Almagro, Chile |
| title_full | Coping Strategies and Tactics to Deal With Social Vulnerability in the Flood Disaster of March 25, 2015, in Chañaral and Diego de Almagro, Chile |
| title_fullStr | Coping Strategies and Tactics to Deal With Social Vulnerability in the Flood Disaster of March 25, 2015, in Chañaral and Diego de Almagro, Chile |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coping Strategies and Tactics to Deal With Social Vulnerability in the Flood Disaster of March 25, 2015, in Chañaral and Diego de Almagro, Chile |
| title_short | Coping Strategies and Tactics to Deal With Social Vulnerability in the Flood Disaster of March 25, 2015, in Chañaral and Diego de Almagro, Chile |
| title_sort | coping strategies and tactics to deal with social vulnerability in the flood disaster of march 25 2015 in chanaral and diego de almagro chile |
| topic | strategies and tactics socio-natural disaster Chile floods March 25 (25M) resilience |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2022.763413/full |
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