Social capital and community preparation for urban flooding in China

AY Lo, B Xu, FKS Chan, R Su - Applied Geography, 2015 - Elsevier
Social capital can enhance community resilience to environmental change. Productive and
trusted relations among social actors and effectual social norms can help local residents …

Government support, social capital and adaptation to urban flooding by residents in the Pearl River Delta area, China

Y Liang, C Jiang, L Ma, L Liu, W Chen, L Liu - Habitat International, 2017 - Elsevier
Increasingly extreme weather events have resulted in massive socio-economic losses and
spark great interest in minimizing the impact of such events in the context of climate change …

[HTML][HTML] Unpacking adaptive capacity to flooding in urban environments: Social capital, social vulnerability, and risk perception

RP Bixler, S Paul, J Jones, M Preisser… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
To effectively cope with the impacts of climate change and increase urban resilience,
households and neighborhoods must adapt in ways that reduce vulnerability to climate …

How social capital influences community resilience management development

Y Liu, L Cao, D Yang, BC Anderson - Environmental Science & Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The research on" resilience" in the field of urban disaster prevention has gradually changed
from macro resilience strategies to construction of concrete resilience models. The …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of personal and collective social capital on flood preparedness and community resilience: Evidence from Old Fadama, Ghana

M Abunyewah, MO Erdiaw-Kwasie, SA Okyere… - International journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Geographies of social capital: Catastrophe experience, risk perception, and the transformation of social space in postearthquake resettlements in Sichuan, China

AY Lo, LTO Cheung - Annals of the American Association of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores the relationships between catastrophe experience and risk perception,
social interaction, and household response to future catastrophes. Our main argument …

Neighborhood structure, social capital, and community resilience: Longitudinal evidence from the 2011 Brisbane flood disaster

R Wickes, R Zahnow, M Taylor… - Social Science …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Whether a community can demonstrate resilience following a disaster largely
depends on the pre‐disaster context. Community disadvantage, the concentration of …

What do you mean by community resilience? More assets or better prepared?

J Wei, Z Han, Y Han, Z Gong - Disaster Medicine and Public Health …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Objectives: Understanding people's perception of community resilience to disaster is
important. This study explores the correlations of household livelihood assets, the adopted …

Enhancement of disaster preparedness with social capital and community capacity: A perspective from a comparative case study of rural communities in Kochi, Japan

J Mimaki, R Shaw - SUISUI Hydrological Research Letters, 2007 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Social capital is defined as the factors promoting useful cooperative actions, such as social
organizations and systems, norms, networks, people's sense of values, consciousness and …

Exploring the role of social capital in advancing climate change mitigation and disaster risk reduction

S Bernados Jr, L Ocampo - Community Development, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This work explores how social capital impacts community resilience via the community
development framework, with dimensions spanning trust, cooperativism, volunteerism …