Better together? The role of social capital in urban social vulnerability
Better together? The role of social capital in urban social vulnerability
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DOI：
10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102561
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发表时间：
2022-05-08
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
Naquin, Nicole
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作者：
Fraser, Timothy;Naquin, Nicole
本研究探讨了为什么一些社区比其他社区更脆弱，重点是居民的社会资本对脆弱性水平的变化随着时间的推移的变革性影响。我们以世界第三大经济体日本为例。日本每年面临数十次地震、洪水和台风，但一些社区在灾害面前比其他社区更容易受到社会影响。利用差异-无差异模型和匹配实验，我们测试了绑定，桥接和连接社会资本对脆弱性的影响。我们发现，控制城市的治理能力，基于人口的资源需求，以及最近的灾害造成的损害，社区中更高水平的社会资本会导致更低的脆弱性。然而，其他类型的社会资本并不会立即导致脆弱性降低，这意味着在这些情况下需要政府提供更多的支持。
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-indifferences 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.