Social capital is widely regarded as a key element in recovery from and resilience to
disasters. Yet, little attention has been paid to the specificities of what supports or …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine how social capital operated in the lives of
15 respondents from Lalitpur following the massive 1934 Kathmandu Valley earthquake …

Pakistan suffered large‐scale flooding in summer 2010 that caused damage amounting to
approximately USD 43 billion, claimed the lives of at least 1,700 people, and negatively …

According to the first generation of theories of collective action, utility-maximizing individuals
encountering conditions of nonexcludability and nonrivalry free ride rather than cooperate …

Much research has implied that social capital functions as an unqualified 'public good',
enhancing governance, economic performance, and quality-of-life. Scholars of disaster have …

Despite of growing scholarship discussing the role of social capital in disaster recovery, little
has been known about the connection between forms of social capital (bonding and …

Social capital is a common feature among disaster-resilient communities. This research
aims to define how social capital shapes the post-disaster conditions in the 2011 Typhoon …

Social capital constitutes an important resource in vulnerable cities of the developing world
where formal disaster management capacities are weak, responses are limited, and socio …

Social capital is a resource which is embedded in every community and it has been
observed that it plays an important role in different stages of a disaster. Social capital can be …

This study examines the hypothesis that social capital can be a foundation for community
disaster resilience with an analysis of empirical findings from the August 2018 earthquake …