Cultivating disaster resilience in rural Oklahoma: Community disenfranchisement and relational aspects of social capital

Straub, Adam M.; Gray, Benjamin R.; Ritchie, Liesel A.; Gill, Duane A.

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.12.010

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“…It should also be noted that social capital can differ significantly by geography. For example, Straub et al (2020) found that while rural communities often band together to increase preparedness and 8 build resilience, they often lack relational ties with urban areas (due in part to lack of trust and low expectations of reciprocity), which decreases preparedness.…”

Section: Social Capital Trust and Compassion In Disastersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trust and compassion in willingness to share mobility and sheltering resources in evacuations: A case study of the 2017 and 2018 California Wildfires

Wong

Walker

Shaheen

2021

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Advances in the sharing economysuch as transportation network companies (e.g., Lyft, Uber) and home sharing (e.g., Airbnb)have coincided with the increasing need for evacuation resources. While peer-to-peer sharing under normal circumstances often suffers from trust barriers, disaster literature indicates that trust and compassion often increase following disasters, improving recovery efforts. We hypothesize that trust and compassion could trigger willingness to share transportation and sheltering resources during an evacuation. To test this hypothesis, we distributed a survey to individuals impacted by the 2017 Southern California Wildfires (n=226) and the 2018 Carr Wildfire (n=284). We estimate binary logit choice models, finding that high trust in neighbors and strangers and high compassion levels significantly increase willingness to share across four sharing scenarios. Assuming a high trust/compassion population versus a low trust/compassion population results in a change of likelihood to share between 30% and 55%, depending on scenario. Variables related to departure timing and routing which capture evacuation urgencyincrease transportation sharing willingness. Volunteers in past disasters and members of community organizations are usually more likely to share, while families and previous evacuees are typically less likely. Significance of other demographic variables is highly dependent on the scenario. Spare seatbelts and bed capacity, while increasing willingness, are largely insignificant. These results suggest that future sharing economy strategies should cultivate trust and compassion before disasters via preparedness within neighborhoods, community-based organizations, and volunteer networks, during disasters through communication from officials, and after disasters using resilience-oriented and community-building information campaigns.

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Section: Social Capital Trust and Compassion In Disastersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trust and compassion in willingness to share mobility and sheltering resources in evacuations: A case study of the 2017 and 2018 California Wildfires

Wong

Walker

Shaheen

2021

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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“…Resilience in the context of evacuation planning with street capacity considerations was introduced [ 86 ]. Moreover, social capital was considered to cultivate disaster resilience during disaster preparedness [ 87 ].…”

Section: The Three Phases Of Urban Disaster Resilience Researchmentioning

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A Scientometric Review of Urban Disaster Resilience Research

Yang

Tan

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Natural disasters and human-made disasters are threatening urban areas globally. The resilience capacity of the urban system plays an important role in disaster risk response and recovery. Strengthening urban disaster resilience is also fundamental to ensuring sustainable development. Various practices and research for enhancing urban disaster resilience have been carried out worldwide but are yet to be reviewed. Accordingly, this paper gives a scientometric review of urban disaster resilience research by using CiteSpace. The time span (January 2001–January 2021) was selected and divided into three phases based on the number of publications. In addition, according to keyword statistics and clustering results, the collected articles are grouped into four hotspot topics: disaster risk reduction, specific disaster resilience research, resilience assessment, and combination research. The results show that most of the existing research is in the first two categories, and articles in the second and fourth categories both show a high growth rate and could be further research directions. The review indicates that urban disaster resilience is essential for a city’s sustainable development. Moreover, the findings provide scholars a full picture of the existing urban disaster resilience research which can help them identify promising research directions. The findings can also help urban government officials and policymakers review current urban disaster management strategies and make further improvements.

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“…There is evidence that community-based initiatives have the best success when all three social capitals are present (O'Brien et al 1998;Halseth and Ryser 2007;Brown et al 2016;Igalla et al 2019;Igalla et al 2020). The absence of linking social capital can lead to greater vulnerability (Straub et al 2020), and by inference maintaining links between local and non-local networks is crucial for local resilience. We suggest that linking is the most important social capital to ensure resilience in CWQ.…”

Section: Bonding Bridging and Linking Social Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is evidence that community resilience declines as more groups become over-reliant on key individuals (McAllister et al 2008), a risk of bonding and bridging social capitals being weakened, and a risk of accelerated loss of resilience (e.g. Straub et al 2020). The declining population of CWQ increases the urgency for locals to collaborate with the non-local rangeland community.…”

Section: Bonding Bridging and Linking Social Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

A call for collaboration: linking local and non-local rangeland communities to build resilience

Phelps¹,

Kelly

2020

Rangel. J.

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The people who live in Australia's rangelands are vital for maintaining natural systems, agricultural production, infrastructure for tourism and many services and products which benefit the nation. However, the number of people living within many rangeland regions is declining, services are being withdrawn and resilience undermined. Social capital is an important concept within the resilience literature. Bonding social capital is based strong ties within relatively homogenous local groups, bridging social capital is based on ties between more diverse local groups and linking social capital is based on ties between local and external groups. Within the rangelands, there are often strong bonding and bridging social capitals based on internal social and formal connections, but gaps in linking social capital due to weak or imbalanced connections with external groups and organisations. There is evidence that all three social capitals are needed for regional resilience, and the gap in linking is thus a key issue. People who live outside the rangelands can help rebuild this resilience by linking their skills, knowledge and expertise with local groups and communities. Many city-based scientists, policy makers, influencers and other professionals work in and have empathy for the rangelands. By connecting meaningfully with local groups such as Landcare, service clubs, philanthropic groups or Indigenous Rangers, they would find many benefits to their own endeavours through improved policies, knowledge and service delivery. Central-western Queensland is provided as an example where many such mutual benefits and networks already exist, offering pathways for linking local residents with external experts. Current platforms offer opportunities for a greater range of external academic institutions and organisations to engage with locals, with everyone standing to gain.

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Cultivating disaster resilience in rural Oklahoma: Community disenfranchisement and relational aspects of social capital

Cited by 55 publications

References 20 publications

Trust and compassion in willingness to share mobility and sheltering resources in evacuations: A case study of the 2017 and 2018 California Wildfires

Trust and compassion in willingness to share mobility and sheltering resources in evacuations: A case study of the 2017 and 2018 California Wildfires

A Scientometric Review of Urban Disaster Resilience Research

A call for collaboration: linking local and non-local rangeland communities to build resilience

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