Vital Linkages: A Study of the Role of Linking Social Capital in a Philippine Disaster Recovery and Rebuilding Effort

Livelihoods, precarity, and disaster vulnerability: Nicaragua and Hurricane Mitch

“…These waters quickly became overfished, however, and the welfare of many reliant on fishing livelihoods declined (Ignlin, 2013). In the respective contexts of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua in 1998 and the Guinsaugon landslide in the Philippines on 17 February 2006, Zulauf (2013) and Loebach and Stewart (2015) observe similar negative impacts of displacement on households reliant on agricultural production. In both cases, loss of land compelled households reliant on agricultural production to search for alternative livelihoods in off-farm employment-a problematic shift for those with few assets, little financial capital, or limited education, important resources for accessing offfarm livelihoods.…”

Community Gardening, Volunteerism and Personal Happiness: “Digging In” to Green Space Environments for Improved Health

“…Community gardening programs and neighborhoods that provide increased access to green space activities are unique in that they help contribute to the development of social capital in providing residents with greater opportunities to communicate directly with eachother and to participate in transformative programs that effect positive change and growth, such as increased health and nutrition [5]. More recently, empirical research has identified the viability and importance in maintaining and developing social capital among underserved communities and providing adequate educational resources, such as urban schools [6], mental health resources [7], and even natural disaster recovery efforts (i.e., landslides, hurricanes and floods) [8].…”

Further development of a conceptual framework for assessing resilience at the community scale

“…The role of schools in community recovery and rebuilding effort is undisputable. Many studies show that aside from providing education to students, in a post-disaster context, schools can play a number of important roles to the community, including providing material goods (Loebach and Stewart 2015), social support (Joshi and Aoki 2014;Loebach and Stewart 2015), sheltering, maintaining ties with outside groups that provide critical resources (Loebach and Stewart 2015), and acting as an information dissemination center and a psychological clinic (Herrman 2012).…”