Socio-environmental change and flood risks: the case of Santiago de Chile

Abstract: The extreme concentration of values, people, infrastructure and economic prosperity in megacities creates chances but also makes the population vulnerable to extreme events and natural catastrophes. There is a degree of consensus that, particularly in large agglomerations, hazardous events (e.g. storms, floods, landslides) are not solely the result of natural phenomena, but are rather the result of the interaction between (changing) natural and social/anthropogenic factors. Furthermore, risks resulting from this combination are distributed unevenly across the population: poorer urban households are more at risk to ‘natural’ hazards. This paper investigates these assumptions. It explores the social and environmental dimensions of land use changes and how they relate to flood risk. Its geographic focus is Santiago de Chile. This rapidly changing megacity with about 6 million inhabitants is located in the Maipo river basin between the central and the coastal Andean cordilleras. The st.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2659

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Socio-environmental change and flood risks: the case of Santiago de Chile ; volume:64 ; number:4 ; year:2010 ; Erdkunde ; 64, Heft 4 (2010)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Ebert, Annemarie ; Welz, Juliane ; Heinrichs, Dirk ; Krelleneberg, Kertsin ; Hansjürgens, Bernd

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2010.04.01
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410281815063.697958338526
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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