The cultivation of neighborhood-based social capital has gained significant attention in the
disaster management sector in recent years as a means to increase community disaster …

Human beings have had to co-exist with natural disasters and environmental calamity since
the dawn of time, and our vulnerability to disasters is potentially increased in the 21st …

Despite the recent popularity and frequent use of the disaster resilience concept in the
academic, research, and policy programs, there is a limited theoretical understanding of this …

Social capital has been identified as crucial to the fostering of resilience in rapidly
expanding cities of the Global South. The purpose of this article is to better understand the …

Governments, researchers, and humanitarian agencies have increasingly focused on
reducing disaster impacts and enhancing the resilience of individuals, households, and …

Despite the ubiquity of disaster and the increasing toll in human lives and financial costs,
much research and policy remain focused on physical infrastructure–centered approaches …

Disasters can have severe and long‐lasting consequences for individuals and communities.
While scholarly evidence indicates that access to social support can ameliorate their …

Social vulnerability and social capital have been shown to influence how severely
communities are impacted by natural hazards and how quickly they recover. Indices exist to …

Recently, scholars have turned to publicly available data to measure the resources and
vulnerability of communities in the face of disasters [1, 2]. However, when measuring …

Researchers argue that social networks based on shared values, trust, and norms can
facilitate collective action, and such social capital increases the ability of communities to …