Co‐evolving supportive networks and perceived community resilience across disaster‐damaged areas after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Selection, influence, or both?

Abstract

After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in March 2011, the new community currency experiment for supporting disaster recovery, Fukkou Ouen Chiiki Tsuka, was introduced by community‐based organizations in these earthquake‐damaged areas. However, little is known about how perceived community resilience coevolves with interactions in the disaster recovery process. Using Simultaneous Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis techniques, this study shows the coevolutionary dynamics between perceptions of community resilience and the formation of supportive links among residents through a community currency (“Domo”) in Kamaishi. This study also provides policy implications for how mutual reinforcement between community residents’ engagement in network establishments and building a sense of community resilience among those affected functions as a potential mechanism for facilitating disaster recovery.

Does non‐destructive earthquake experience affect risk perception and motivate preparedness?

“…Earthquakes are among the most frequently occurring natural hazards that cause not only damages and injuries but also psychological trauma. Nothing can be done to prevent earthquakes from occurring; however, there are many precautions that people can take to reduce and minimize their harmful effects (Becker, Paton, Johnston, & Ronan, ; Lindell, Arlikatti, & Prater, ; Lindell & Whitney, ; Lim & Nakazato, ). Although the importance of earthquake preparedness has been widely advocated by both researchers and policymakers, many studies have provided evidence of people's tendency to underprepare, especially in the pre‐disaster phase (Becker et al, ; Joffe et al, ; Lindell & Perry, ; Onuma, Kong, & Managi, ; Sutton & Tierney, ).…”

A Scientometric Review of Urban Disaster Resilience Research

“…A consistent significant positive correlation was presented between resilience and cohesion, and the mean intensities of these two features show place-specific differentiation [ 52 , 94 ]. In addition, after major flooding disasters, the post-disaster resilience was highlighted through expanding local behavioral health service delivery capacity [ 95 ], and after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in March 2011, the co-evolutionary dynamics between perceptions of community resilience and the formation of supportive links among residents were explored [ 96 ].…”

“…The disaster entrepreneurship is the private sector and takes advantage of business opportunities and serves community stakeholders to create value during or after a disaster [ 102 ]. A local community-driven bottom-top approach to mitigate risk and disseminate appropriate disaster risk information was proposed to promote community-based resilience [ 96 , 103 ]. A conceptual model of a coupled human-landscape system in Swiss Alpine communities was developed to assess risk and community resilience, which is a theoretical innovation in developing disaster risk management plans for communities [ 104 ].…”

Evolution of Collaborative Governance in the 2015, 2016, and 2018 Myanmar Flood Disaster Responses: A Longitudinal Approach to a Network Analysis

“…This generation and circulation of support could be extended to triadic relations such as the tendency of a friend of a friend to become a friend. The first way to sustain trustworthiness and credibility in a network system is to create two types of closely connected network structures: (1) reciprocal relationships and (2) transitive relationships (Nakazato and Lim 2016;Lim and Nakazato 2019). In these types of structures, organizations are densely linked with others and do not easily betray their partners in the support-sharing process.…”

“…Hypothesis 4 (Cyclicality): In a disaster response network, when organization a requests help or support from organization b, which also requests help or support from organization c, organization c tends to subsequently request help or support from organization a. Individuals or organizations have the tendency to establish a partnership with organizations with similar or the same cultural, economic, social, and organizational properties or characteristics (McPherson and Smith-Lovin 1987;McPherson et al 2001;Lim and Nakazato 2019). In the disaster management context, the involvement of multiple organizations with conflicting objectives and goals in the undertaking of similar operations could lead to resource wastage and poor coordination among them (Rietjens et al 2007).…”