The Great Hanshin Earthquake and Fire

Murosaki, Yoshiteru

doi:10.20965/jdr.2007.p0298

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“…From a disaster preparedness perspective, the extent of communities' vulnerability can be predicted from physical characteristics. For example, in the 1995 earthquake that rocked the Kobe area of Japan, older wooden houses were signifi cantly associated with worse fi re damage (Murosaki, 2007 ). In the Indian Ocean tsunami, the extent of damage correlated with the distance from the epicenter, as well as the slope of the land, water depth, and topography (Ramakrishnan, Ghosh, Raja, Chandran, & Jeyram, 2005 ).…”

Section: Variability In the Use Of Social Capital In Disaster Researchmentioning

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Disaster, Social Capital, and Health

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Kawachi

Subramanian

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Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health

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Section: Variability In the Use Of Social Capital In Disaster Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disaster, Social Capital, and Health

Aida

Kawachi

Subramanian

et al. 2013

Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health

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The power of people: social capital’s role in recovery from the 1995 Kobe earthquake

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Despite the regularity of disasters, social science has only begun to generate replicable knowledge about the factors which facilitate post-crisis recovery. Building on the broad variation in recovery rates within disaster-affected cities, I investigate the ability of Kobe's nine wards to repopulate after the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan. This article uses case studies of neighborhoods in Kobe alongside new time-series, cross-sectional data set to test five variables thought to influence recovery along with the relatively untested factor of social capital. Controlling for damage, population density, economic conditions, inequality and other variables thought important in past research, social capital proves to be the strongest and most robust predictor of population recovery after catastrophe. This has important implications both for public policies focused on reconstruction and for social science more generally.Keywords Kobe earthquake Á Population recovery Á Social capital Á Disaster Á Resilience Disasters remain among the most critical shocks which impact residents and their neighborhoods around the world. While large-scale crises such as the Indian Ocean tsunami (2004), Hurricane Katrina (2005), and Italy's earthquake (2009) captured media attention, numerous smaller-scale floods, typhoons, earthquakes, and mudslides killed hundreds of thousands of victims around the world and affected far more. Researchers have confirmed an upward trend in the number in the number of disasters, individuals affected by them, and their economic costs over the past two decades (Hoyois et al. 2007). A better understanding of disasters, or more specifically of disaster recovery, will provide policy makers and victims alike with ''usable knowledge''-knowledge that is both accurate and politically tractable (Haas 2004: 572).

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