Global policies on disaster risk reduction have highlighted individual and community
responsibilities and roles in reducing risk and promoting coping capacity. Strengthening …

The environmental management literature suggests that resilience is key to managing
complex systems and reducing vulnerability resulting from uncertainty and unexpected …

The concept of'social capital'is currently the focus of an explosion of interest in the research
and policy community. It refers to the social networks, informal structures and norms that …

This paper considers a subset of the computer-mediated communication (CMC) that took
place during the flooding of the Red River Valley in the US and Canada in March and April …

Despite the regularity of disasters, social science has only begun to generate replicable
knowledge about the factors which facilitate post-crisis recovery. Building on the broad …

In recent years, the world has watched in horror as tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes
have wrought havoc across countries and continents. While these events have different …

Objectives. We studied the experience of Hurricane Katrina evacuees to better understand
factors influencing evacuation decisions in impoverished, mainly minority communities that …

This paper discusses the concept of vulnerability as characterized in the climate change
literature and presents a framework for assessing adaptive capacity. The framework …

Building a community that is resilient to disasters has become one of the main goals of
disaster management. Communities that are more disaster resilient often experience less …

The conventional method of risk analysis (with risk as a product of probability and
consequences) does not allow for a pluralistic approach that includes the various risk …