Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

摘要

The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 took the lives of more than 230,000 people in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina killed 1,500 people, displaced or evacuated 2 million, and destroyed more than 300,000 homes. After the 1923 Tokyo earthquake, there were 71,000 dead or missing, while 350,000 houses were damaged or destroyed. The 1995 Kobe earthquake killed 6,500 people and left more than 300,000 residents homeless. Each of these major disasters is explored by Daniel Aldrich, who seeks a better understanding of how social capital influences postdisaster recovery.