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Disaster scholars’ interest in social capital has grown dramatically, due in part because social capital gets at the heart of collective action, cooperation, and the therapeutic community that occurs during emergencies. While social capital has been highlighted as a positive factor for communities under extreme events, questions remain. This chapter reviews how social capital is conceptualized and operationalized in disaster research and the current state of knowledge on this topic. The chapter begins with social capital theory. Next, the relevant research on social capital in disaster is reviewed. This research is categorized by unit of analysis (individual or collective) and the phase of disaster (mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery). Finally, this chapter concludes with a critical assessment of the use of social capital by disaster scholars and offers implications for future research.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Woolock and Narayan (2000) identify four types of social capital: networks and communitarian, which correspond to the two categories identified here, and also institutional that focuses on state and governmental environments, and a synergy view that combines networks and institutional perspectives.

  2. 2.

    Articles included in this chapter address natural or technological disasters. Articles focused solely on infectious diseases, migration, development, war, or crime were removed unless they related to these topics during a natural or technological disaster situation. The intersection of disaster and climate change research has grown in recent years, and articles that focused on climate change and included the extreme events that accompany it were included. The literature on social capital in environmental stress or climate change could fill a whole chapter on its own and there are several reviews worthy of reading, such as Pretty and Ward (2001).

  3. 3.

    Journals searched included: International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Disasters, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Journal of Homeland Security, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Response, Disaster Prevention and Management, International Journal of Emergency Management, Natural Hazards, Natural Hazards Review, Journal of Disaster Research, Risk Analysis, Global Environmental Change, Social Problems, Social Forces, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Public Administration Review, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Social Networks, Population and Development Review.

  4. 4.

    Some articles that do not cite one of these four, cite other work in social capital, such as Woolcock and Narayan (2000) and Portes (1998), among others.

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