Pre-Disaster Social Capital and Disaster Recovery in Wenchuan Earthquake-Stricken Rural Communities

Wei, Jianwen; Han, Yang

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“…Although the politics of infrastructures is a niche of its own e.g., (Barker 2017 ), what is less emphasized in mainstream political discourse are the social infrastructures, the social capital of communities representing the value of their collective civic, cultural and political realities. Such social capital, as detailed below, can play a substantial role in enabling community-based disaster response and recovery processes (Nakagawa and Shaw 2004 ; Sadeka et al 2015 ; Sadri et al 2017 ; Masud-All-Kamal and Monirul Hassan 2018 ; Wei and Han 2018 ; Gallagher et al 2019 ). It is often social capital (e.g., often examined through network analysis) that enables access to the material infrastructures (Aldrich and Meyer 2015 ), and it can be social capital that creates a foundation for community resilience to disasters as a form of ‘social preparedness’.…”

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Social capital and community disaster resilience: post-earthquake tourism recovery on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia

Partelow

2020

Sustain Sci

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This study examines the hypothesis that social capital can be a foundation for community disaster resilience with an analysis of empirical findings from the August 2018 earthquake recovery on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia, a globally known coastal tourism destination. Positive links between community social capital and community disaster resilience are hypothesized, but the extent to which an iterative and interdependent relationship is co-shaping both is less understood. Social capital can enable collective action, providing self-organized social, psychological, financial and material resources following a disaster, that may otherwise need to be provided externally. In turn, disasters create collective action problems where collective response and recovery process are needed, creating an institutional space where the degree of usefulness, meaning and function of social capital can be shaped, recognized and drawn upon, often where external aid is insufficient. These relationships can be observed following disasters, because individuals and communities are often linked through emotive and meaningful sequences of common experiences, actions and activities. Findings descriptively detail Gili Trawangan’s response and recovery process through the events and activities that occurred, and are then theoretically analyzed with a social capital framework including bonding (within group), bridging (between group) and linking (across power and institutional) ties. Three conclusions can be summarized. (1) Community social capital and disaster resilience are iteratively co-shaped through collective experiences, actions and activities. (2) Understanding context is critical for understanding if and to what degree this relationship exists. (3) The mechanism through which social capital enhances resilience is that it can enable collective action that can lead to the provision of needed aid and services. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s11625-020-00854-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Social capital and community disaster resilience: post-earthquake tourism recovery on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia

Partelow

2020

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“…Next, the improvement of trust and social connections can facilitate the reconstruction of families and communities affected by disasters [ 17 , 37 ]. Social capital has an important impact on residents’ life satisfaction by enhancing social ties and cohesion; that is, families with more social capital recover more easily and faster, rebuilding resources through formal and informal networks of relationships [ 39 , 40 ]. Survivors reconstruct their life satisfaction through individual social networks, thereby mitigating the negative impacts of earthquake damage and using their social networks to rebuild their lives to fit their idea of a good life [ 41 ].…”

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Social capital, policy fairness, and subjective life satisfaction of earthquake survivors in Wenchuan, China: a longitudinal study based on post-earthquake survey data

Wang

2020

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Background Existing research has rarely examined an earthquake’s sustained impact and the trajectory of the earthquake survivors’ life satisfaction over time. This study aims to analyze longitudinal changes in life satisfaction of Wenchuan earthquake survivors and the impact of social capital and government relief policy. Methods This research applied a hierarchical linear model to longitudinal survey data collected after the earthquake. The survey was divided into three waves and was collected from Deyang City and Mianyang City of Sichuan Province. A random sampling method was used; a sample of 225 participants had valid responses over three waves of the survey. Results This study found that a survivor’s social capital and the perception of the fairness of government relief policy have a significant effect on the trajectory of life satisfaction post-disaster. First, the initial life satisfaction of those with high social capital was significantly higher than of those with low social capital, whilst survivors with high social capital had a lower rate of change in life satisfaction. Second, one year after the earthquake, those who felt government policy was unfair had a lower life satisfaction than those who felt it was fair. However, from the first year to the fourth year after the disaster, survivors who believed that the government policy was unfair experienced a higher rate of change in life satisfaction than those who did not. Third, the fairness of government relief policy moderates the relationship between survivors’ social capital and changes in life satisfaction. A fair policy of relief can reduce the negative impact of the lack of individual social capital on life satisfaction. Conclusions Survivors reconstruct life satisfaction through their social network and the perception of the fairness of the government’s post-disaster relief policy. Therefore, to promote the improvement of life satisfaction of survivors, it is necessary to cultivate social capital and ensure fairness of the relief policy.

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“…In the recovery phase, bonds with friends and a feeling of belonging in the community lessens the mental and physical harm due to a disaster. To illustrate, households with larger Spring Festival networks were more likely to rebuild their home after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake [31].…”

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Collaborative Action for Community Resilience to Climate Risks: Opportunities and Barriers

Jensen

Ong

2020

Sustainability

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Collaborative actions between citizens and government agencies at the local level have the potential to raise community resilience to climate risks via social learning and increased social capital. However, for these actions to succeed, community members' values, norms and risk perceptions must support collaborative action and be accompanied by self-efficacy. This paper develops a theoretical framework linking these concepts and applies the framework to a collaborative climate risk project in Singapore, using qualitative data from focus group discussions. We find that pro-social values are a strong enabling factor for residents to engage in collaboration, but that perceptions of low collective efficacy are a potential barrier. In particular, we find that the relative competence of the government leads to a perception of "exemptionalism," which undermines individuals' intentions to devote resources to collaborative action.

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Pre-Disaster Social Capital and Disaster Recovery in Wenchuan Earthquake-Stricken Rural Communities

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Social capital and community disaster resilience: post-earthquake tourism recovery on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia

Social capital and community disaster resilience: post-earthquake tourism recovery on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia

Social capital, policy fairness, and subjective life satisfaction of earthquake survivors in Wenchuan, China: a longitudinal study based on post-earthquake survey data

Collaborative Action for Community Resilience to Climate Risks: Opportunities and Barriers

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