This paper chronicles the socio-economic and institutional factors that underpin the
unflinching resilience of survivors in the May 5, 2013 Kantamanto Market fire incident in …

The purpose of this research is to explore the role social capital played in disaster coping
and the recovery process among the southwest coastal villages of Bangladesh. Qualitative …

Social capital and socioeconomic networks are becoming increasingly recognized as
important aspects of disaster related studies. This research reveals the empirical evidence of …

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 …

Social capital plays a significant role in post-disaster community participation and disaster
recovery. This study divides social capital into three aspects: Cognition, structure, and …

An essential responsibility of a government is to reduce disaster mortality of citizens by
encouraging prompt evacuation. Previous studies document that social capital plays a …

This study aims to present a further understanding and explore the relationship of local and
translocal ties and resilience in the household level. The data are obtained from households …

In rural communities of Zambia and Namibia as in other parts of the world, floods are one of
the most potentially destructive natural hazards to impact rural livelihoods. This makes it …

Floods are among the most significant and frequent hazards to affect communities in the
downstream part of the Ba River in Western Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. They often leave in their …

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 …