Effects of Interactions among Social Capital, Income and Learning from Experiences of Natural Disasters: A Case Study from Japan

Yamamura, Eiji

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“…These factors are important in relation to human behaviour in emergencies and crises, but research has not shown clear results illustrating their interrelated impact. Demographics are believed to put constraints on human behaviour, but these factors cannot be used to predict human behaviour during, for instance, an evacuation (Elliott & Pais, 2006;Gregg et al, 2007;Horbury & Hughes, 2010;Jalarajan Raj et al, 2010;Merchant et al, 2011;Stein et al, 2010;Tekeli-Yes ßil et al, 2010;Yamamura, 2010).…”

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Informing crisis alerts using social media: Best practices and proof of concept

Brynielsson

Granåsen

Lindquist

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Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Social media has become an integrated part of human communication, both as a means to establish and maintain social relationships, and as a means of sharing and co-creating information. Social media comes with an array of possibilities for individuals as well as organizations, corporations, and authorities. Within the field of crisis communication, social media possibilities such as online sharing and social networking have had an impact on the way crisis information is disseminated and updated. This paper addresses the issues related to using social media for communicating crisis information and broadcasting alert messages to the general population, discusses the role of social media in future pan-European crisis alerting, and presents a prototype system demonstrating the possibilities. An extensive systematic literature review was carried out to identify factors that affect the use of social media for alerting and warning. These factors were mirrored in experiences, collected through interviews, obtained by emergency management organizations in three European countries (Sweden, Czech Republic, and Spain). The factors finally form the basis for suggestions and recommendations regarding the design of technological tools for both communication and information collection to serve as an integral part of a future pan-European crisis alerting system.

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Informing crisis alerts using social media: Best practices and proof of concept

Brynielsson

Granåsen

Lindquist

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Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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“…First, natural disasters lead to the grassroots creation of self-help organizations in many societies (e.g., Hawkins and Maurer, 2010;Yamamura, 2010). In many places such civic associations help train citizens in basic functions of self-governance as well as reveal the positive outputs from collective action, both features that should be positively correlated with political engagement (e.g., 1 Our argument is similar to that of Kosec and Mo (2015), who find that flood relief from the government can mitigate the negative e↵ects of economic shocks on aspiration levels.…”

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Natural Disasters and Political Engagement: Evidence from the 2010–11 Pakistani Floods

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Malhotra³

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract How natural disasters a↵ect politics in developing countries is an important question given the fragility of fledgling democratic institutions in some of these countries as well as likely increased exposure to natural disasters over time due to climate change. Research in sociology and psychology suggests traumatic events can inspire pro-social behavior and therefore might increase political engagement. Research in political science argues that economic resources are critical for political engagement and thus the economic dislocation from disasters may dampen participation. We argue that when the government and civil society response e↵ectively blunts a disaster's economic impacts, then political engagement may increase as citizens learn about government capacity. Using diverse data from the massive 2010-11 Pakistan floods, we find that Pakistanis in highly flood-a↵ected areas turned out to vote at substantially higher rates three years later than those less exposed. We also provide speculative evidence on the mechanism. The increase in turnout was higher in areas with lower ex ante flood risk, which is consistent with a learning process. These results suggest that natural disasters may not necessarily undermine civil society in emerging developing democracies. (JEL: A12, D72, D74, I28, How do natural disasters a↵ect politics in developing countries? Addressing this question is important given the fragility of fledgling democratic institutions in some of these countries as well as likely increased exposure to natural disasters over time due to climate change (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2013). The existing social science literature makes contradictory predictions. On the one hand, research from sociology and psychology suggests that traumatic events such as natural disasters can inspire pro-social behavior and therefore might increase political engagement (e.g., Bardo, 1978;Bolin and Stanford, 1998;Rodriguez, Trainor and Quarantelli, 2006;Toya and Skidmore, 2014). If this is the case, then disasters might enhance the quality of government by increasing accountability pressures and selecting for a higher-quality political class (e.g., Putnam, Leonardi and Nanetti, 1994;Besley, 2007). On the other hand, political scientists have argued that economic resources are critical ingredients for civic engagement (e.g., Verba, Schlozman and Brady, 1995). Kosec and Mo (2015) find that economic shocks resulting from natural disasters can reduce citizen aspiration levels, whic...

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“…Similarly, other authors demonstrate the relationship between social capital and economic development (e.g., Woolcook, 1998;Francois and Zabojnik, 2005), as well as social capital and economic performance (e.g., Solow, 2000;Westlund and Adam, 2010). Moreover, further studies are concerned with the relation between social capital and growth (e.g., Helliwell and Putnam, 1995;Yli-Renko et al, 2002;Routledge and von Amsberg, 2003;Iyer et al, 2005), income (e.g., Narayan and Pritchett, 1999;Yamamura, 2010), and also financial issues (e.g., Gomez and Santor, 2001;Guiso et al, 2004). Only few contributions, however, scrutinize the effect of social capital on unemployment (for one approach see Freitag and Kirchner, 2011), although Granovetter (1973) already emphasized the strength of strong and weak ties as to finding a new job.…”

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Beyond the Employment Agency: The Effect of Social Capital on the Duration of Unemployment

Marek

Damm

2016

SSRN Journal

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Effects of Interactions among Social Capital, Income and Learning from Experiences of Natural Disasters: A Case Study from Japan

Cited by 73 publications

References 48 publications

Informing crisis alerts using social media: Best practices and proof of concept

Informing crisis alerts using social media: Best practices and proof of concept

Natural Disasters and Political Engagement: Evidence from the 2010–11 Pakistani Floods

Beyond the Employment Agency: The Effect of Social Capital on the Duration of Unemployment

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