ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an initial reflection on the interface between disaster governance and the social production of disaster vulnerability. It offers such reflection devising the case of post-disaster Chaiten in Chile, paying special attention to its multi-scalar relations of policy response and to the context of the Chilean model of Disaster Risk Management (DRM). The chapter highlights disaster governance to facilitate a deeper explanation about the social production and progression of vulnerability as well as to inform disaster governance research agenda. Disaster governance has an important influence in the production and prevention of the growth of vulnerability, and ultimately for the causation of disasters and risks. When highly centralised, a model of DRM will influence the way in which disaster governance operates. The system of rules will determine the foundation on which the actors, institutions and people participate in the disaster governance process.
