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

Objective Whether a community can demonstrate resilience following a disaster largely
depends on the pre‐disaster context. Community disadvantage, the concentration of …

Many scholars have advocated that the time has come to provide empirical evidence of the
mechanisms that associate community social capital with individual disaster mental health …

In 2017, marginalised groups were disproportionately impacted by extensive flooding in a
rural community in Northern New South Wales, Australia, with greater risk of home …

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 …

This chapter explains the important role that social capital plays in disaster impact reduction
and resilience following disaster. First, we introduce the conceptual background for disaster …

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 …

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 science research on disaster-affected communities uses social capital to explain a
variety of post-disaster outcomes. A promising recent line of inquiry looks at how disasters …

Social disorganization theories position neighborhood social capital and collective efficacy
as key social processes that should facilitate community resilience in the aftermath of …