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作者

Timothy Fraser;Nicole Naquin

来源

HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.124,P.102561

语言

英文

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作者单位

Department of Political Science, Northeastern University, 960A Renaissance Park, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA;Department of Political Science, Northeastern University, 960A Renaissance Park, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA;School of Spatial Planning and Design, Zhejiang University City College, Hangzhou, China;School of Public Administration, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, China;Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China;Department of Agricultural Economics, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000, Gent, Belgium;Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda;Department of Environmental Management, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda;Public Health and Environment, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), P.O. Box 7010, Kampala, Uganda;Hub – Africa, A Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) initiative by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, P.O. Box 5941, Dakar, Senegal;MEIR Engineering & Research Ltd, P.O. Box 3701, Kampala, Uganda;School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China;Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Mollasani, Iran;Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Mollasani, Iran;Department of Real Estate and Construction, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

摘要

This study examines why some communities are more vulnerable than others, focusing on the transformative effect of residents' social capital on changing levels of vulnerability over time. We examine the case of Japan, the third largest economy in the world. Japan faces dozens of earthquakes, floods, and typhoons each year, but some communities are more socially vulnerable in the face of disaster than others. Drawing on difference-in-differences models and matching experiments, we test the effect of bonding, bridging, and linking social capital on vulnerability. We find that controlling for cities’ governance capacity, resource demand based on population, and damage from recent hazards, higher levels of bonding social capital in a community leads to lower levels of vulnerability. However, other types of social capital do not immediately lead to lower vulnerability, implying that greater government support is necessary in these cases.