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Social Capital and the Future of Disaster Recovery Research
Author(s) -
Kage Rieko
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
risk, hazards and crisis in public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1944-4079
DOI - 10.1002/rhc3.21
Subject(s) - natural disaster , disaster recovery , social capital , disaster research , resilience (materials science) , corporate governance , psychological resilience , sociology , political science , economics , social science , geography , finance , management , psychology , law , social psychology , physics , meteorology , thermodynamics
Daniel P. Aldrich's Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post‐Disaster Recovery (University of Chicago Press, 2012) is a major addition to the study of how societies recover in the wake of natural disasters. In this book, Aldrich challenges conventional claims that successful reconstruction from natural disasters is about the quality of governance, sufficient funding, extent of physical damage, or levels of human capital. Instead, he points to social capital as a crucial determinant of a society's post‐disaster recovery over the medium to longer term. The book also raises important issues as to how we might think about the independence of observations in the wake of disaster, the concepts of bridging and social capital, how to fruitfully integrate societal‐based accounts of post‐disaster with state‐based accounts, and about moving toward more systematic comparisons not only within but also across different disasters .