which facilitate post-crisis recovery. Building on the broad variation in recovery rates within disaster-affected cities, I …

Examination of social capital and its relationship to disaster preparedness has grown in prominence partially due to … world-wide need to effectively respond to terrorist attacks, viral epidemics, or natural disasters. Recent studies suggested …, have examined social capital constructs among low income populations living in disaster prone areas and accounted for the …

community social capital with individual disaster mental health. For this purpose we conducted a study (n = 232) one year after … disaster mental health. Our multilevel model shows that high community social capital is indirectly salutary for individual … suggest that individuals confide in the social context (high cognitive social capital) to address disaster-related demands …

2008. We tested the effects of gender and age on the incidence of fractures and amputations. Although more women than men … only statistically significant injury with regard to gender. Age had a more complex effect on the rate and pattern of … and discusses implications for post-disaster emergency operations and planning. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media …

Linking indegenious knowledge of the community with modern techniques to mesure, analyse and reduce disaster … local wisdom, knowledge along with modern tools and techniques can give rid from disaster worst situation and can reduce …

which residents perceived as supporting community resilience to disaster. There is a gap in this research area centred in … the Australian disaster context. Since Australia is predicted to be highly impacted by the effects of climate change in … disaster-impacted localities to inform suitable disaster mitigation and adaptation policies for the future. Because of the …