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The role of Urban Planning in Mitigating Tsunami in Chile after February 27th, 2010

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  • Marie Geraldine Herrmann Lunecke Universidad Diego Portales
No. 34 (2016): Junio
https://doi.org/10.5354/ru.v0i34.39418

Abstract

This article analyses the role of urban planning in mitigating the impact of tsunami in Chile, especially in response to the tsunami of February 27th, 2010. It examines the policies to reduce the impact of tsunami developed at the national level and analyses and compares tsunami mitigation measures proposed at the local level in recent reconstruction plans (PRES) for coastal towns and villages, through a detailed policy review and semi structured interviews with key actors. This article shows that tsunami mitigation measures proposed in the non-binding PRES are being developed in a weak national regulatory framework and focus strongly on "anti-tsunami" engineering solutions. Other available planning tools like risk zoning and relocation have only been proposed in a few coastal reconstruction plans without suitable instruments for their implementation and lacking an active participation of citizens.

Keywords:

Urban planning, tsunami impact mitigation, reconstruction, resilience

Author Biography

Marie Geraldine Herrmann Lunecke, Universidad Diego Portales

Arquitecto, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2001 y Doctor en Urbanismo (Dr.-Ing.), Technische Universität Berlin, 2006, aprobado con distinción máxima (beca DAAD). Ha sido profesora de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y Directora de la Revista EURE. Trabajó como diseñadora y planificadora urbana asociada en la consultora urbana Urban Initiatives (Londres) entre 2005 y 2008. Actualmente es profesora asociada e investigadora de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad Diego Portales.

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Herrmann Lunecke, M. G. (2016). The role of Urban Planning in Mitigating Tsunami in Chile after February 27th, 2010. Revista De Urbanismo, (34), 20–33. https://doi.org/10.5354/ru.v0i34.39418
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