Spontaneous responses by self-organizing,“emergent” voluntary groups and individuals are
a common feature of urban disasters. Their activities include search and rescue, transporting …

Disaster scholars' interest in social capital has grown dramatically, due in part because
social capital gets at the heart of collective action, cooperation, and the therapeutic …

Adverse impacts of climate change, development deficits and inequality exacerbate each
other. Existing vulnerabilities and inequalities intensify with adverse impacts of climate …

Social capital is widely regarded as a key element in recovery from and resilience to
disasters. Yet, little attention has been paid to the specificities of what supports or …

The role of bonding, bridging, and linking social capital is a key factor in the adaptive
capacity to climate-related disasters. But what roles do these three forms of social capital …

Social capital is a resource which is embedded in every community and it has been
observed that it plays an important role in different stages of a disaster. Social capital can be …

Recovery efforts after natural disasters typically focus on physical infrastructure. In general
less attention is paid to the social infrastructure that might impact the capacity of the …

This study clarifies how different types of social capital (SC) affect the efficiencies of waste
management following a major disaster in Japan. The different forms of SC are cognitive SC …

The livelihoods of rural people have been plagued by the precarious impacts of climate
change–related disasters manifesting through floods, heat waves, droughts, cyclones, and …

While there is still a vast body of scholarly research in crisis and disaster management that
considers social capital an asset for lessening negative impacts from crises, this paper …