Power relations in climate adaptation planning: learning from Santiago, Chile
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2016
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Santiago de Chile, like many of Latin America’s megacities, is dealing with the threat of worsening water shortages and floods in the face of climate change, in a context of high extant socio-spatial inequality. Seeking to address increasing vulnerability, the city’s Regional Government engaged in a planning process from 2010 to 2012 to produce a Climate Adaptation Plan for the city with recommendations on reducing urban vulnerability to climate change (Krellenberg & Katrin 2014; Barton et al. 2014). Despite being hailed as a ‘meticulously participatory’ process, however, and against the best efforts of its political and professional supporters, the resulting plan was neither ratified nor implemented by the city’s authorities.
In a context of socio-spatial inequality and increasing vulnerability, this study asks how a participatory planning process with significant political backing failed to achieve its goal of reducing the city’s climate vulnerability. The methodological approach involved an in-depth ethnographic-inspired case study with semi-structured interviews purposively selected on the basis that they participated in the planning process on behalf of public, academic, civil society, and private sector entities. Interview questions were designed to elicit information on the social rules acting at each phase of the process, and were refined during the course of fieldwork in line with observed phenomena.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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