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Municipal Governance, Environmental Management and Disaster Risk Reduction in Chile
Author(s) -
VALDIVIESO FERNÁNDEZ PATRICIO
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12595
Subject(s) - vulnerability (computing) , disaster risk reduction , corporate governance , perspective (graphical) , risk management , business , capital (architecture) , reduction (mathematics) , social capital , environmental planning , environmental resource management , political science , geography , economics , finance , computer security , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science , law , geometry , mathematics
Given the vulnerability of L atin A merican countries to extreme events of climatic and geophysical origin and the frequency of these events, how do local governments manage environmental and disaster risk reduction? This article contributes to the L atin A merican literature about environmental management and disaster risk reduction at the local level. Employing a comparative perspective, the article examines and explains the responses of C hilean municipalities and the role of municipal commitments and social capital.