Disasters and Social Capital

Risk Reduction and Geographical Legacies in the Philippines
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-76043-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience

This book analyzes social capital and preparations for natural hazards in the Philippines. It emphasizes the importance of inequalities, contextualization, and scale, while also underlining the significance of historical and political contexts to better understand social dynamics. Social capital continues to be a debated concept, but it can be useful for thinking about how human societies interact with natural hazards. This book contributes to the growing scientific inquiries which have begun to address the connections between social capital and “natural” disasters. Chapters explore the links between these two fields of knowledge by analyzing the Filipino situation in general, as well as detailing a specific case study of a rural municipality in the Eastern Visayas region. The book’s central argument is that economic inequality is detrimental to social capital which then has negative repercussions on preparing for natural hazards. In an analysis at several geographical scales, Justin shows how inequality, via social capital, makes societies more at risk of having natural hazards turn into disasters. The book argues that a cautious use of the concept of social capital, which is cognizant of the historical and geographical complexities of the context it is applied to, has the potential to improve the way people collectively prevent hazards from turning into disasters. It is essential reading for students, scholars, disaster risk management practitioners, policymakers, and anyone seeking to understand the complexities of climate change, inequality, and crisis resilience.

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Veuthey, Justin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Folgen von Katastrophen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Chapter 1: Introduction and conceptual framework

Chapter 2: Asia and the Philippines

Chapter 3: Uncohesive reins of greed

Chapter 4: The Eastern Visayas

Chapter 5: The fulcrumic municipal scale

Chapter 6: Barangays

Chapter 7: Conclusions on inequalities, social capital, and DRR

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Justin Veuthey is an associate researcher at the University of Geneva’s Institut de Recherches Sociologiques. He also worked as a journalist and with the Swiss government’s humanitarian aid agency.