Background: Much attention on the spread and impact of the ongoing pandemic has focused on institutional factors such as government capacity along with population level characteristics such as race, income and age. This paper draws on a growing body of evidence that bonding, bridging, and...

Scholars and policymakers increasingly recognize the value of social capital - the connections that generate and enable trust among people - in responding to and recovering from shocks and disasters. However, some communities have more social infrastructure, that is, sites that produce and...

Ch 1 Community, Market and Government Responses to Disaster (Daniel P. Aldrich, (Yasuyuki Sawada and Sothea Oum) -- Part 1 Family and Community Ties -- Ch 2 Social Capital in Post Disaster Recovery: Towards a Resilient and Compassionate East (Asian Community (Daniel P. Aldrich) -- Ch 3 The Role...

Research communities across multiple disciplines have demonstrated an increasing concern about variations in the performance of social-ecological systems. In response to this concern, holistic research on resilience explores explanations for the performance of the systems under both predictable...