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Article: Social capital and community preparation for urban flooding in China

TitleSocial capital and community preparation for urban flooding in China
Authors
KeywordsChina
Climate change adaptation
Community resilience
Flooding
Risk mitigation
Social capital
Issue Date2015
PublisherPergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/apgeog
Citation
Applied Geography, 2015, v. 64, p. 1-11 How to Cite?
AbstractSocial capital can enhance community resilience to environmental change. Productive and trusted relations among social actors and effectual social norms can help local residents share resources, information and risks. The main objective of our study is to understand the ways in which social attributes and risk considerations influence adoption of resilient economic measures by individuals for reducing potential losses due to catastrophic rainstorm and flooding. This article provides evidence from China on how social capital contributes to anticipatory adaptation to environmental change. The inquiry is based on structured interviews with local residents of Tianjin, a flood-prone port city in China, and a standard regression analysis. Findings show that the intention to make preparation increases with the levels of social expectation, social relationship, and institutional trust. Perceived risk and damage experience, however, have no significant impacts. This suggests that building social capacity and trust will be more effective in enhancing community resilience than merely increasing awareness of hazard risks. We call for greater efforts on strengthening the capacity of formal and informal communal institutions. The structural changes required, however, are challenging.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/217993
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2023 Impact Factor: 4.0
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.204
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dc.contributor.authorLo, AYH-
dc.contributor.authorXu, B-
dc.contributor.authorChan, FKS-
dc.contributor.authorSu, R-
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-18T06:20:29Z-
dc.date.available2015-09-18T06:20:29Z-
dc.date.issued2015-
dc.identifier.citationApplied Geography, 2015, v. 64, p. 1-11-
dc.identifier.issn0143-6228-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/217993-
dc.description.abstractSocial capital can enhance community resilience to environmental change. Productive and trusted relations among social actors and effectual social norms can help local residents share resources, information and risks. The main objective of our study is to understand the ways in which social attributes and risk considerations influence adoption of resilient economic measures by individuals for reducing potential losses due to catastrophic rainstorm and flooding. This article provides evidence from China on how social capital contributes to anticipatory adaptation to environmental change. The inquiry is based on structured interviews with local residents of Tianjin, a flood-prone port city in China, and a standard regression analysis. Findings show that the intention to make preparation increases with the levels of social expectation, social relationship, and institutional trust. Perceived risk and damage experience, however, have no significant impacts. This suggests that building social capacity and trust will be more effective in enhancing community resilience than merely increasing awareness of hazard risks. We call for greater efforts on strengthening the capacity of formal and informal communal institutions. The structural changes required, however, are challenging.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherPergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/apgeog-
dc.relation.ispartofApplied Geography-
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectChina-
dc.subjectClimate change adaptation-
dc.subjectCommunity resilience-
dc.subjectFlooding-
dc.subjectRisk mitigation-
dc.subjectSocial capital-
dc.titleSocial capital and community preparation for urban flooding in China-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailLo, AYH: alexloyh@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityLo, AYH=rp02023-
dc.description.naturepostprint-
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.08.003-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-84941137408-
dc.identifier.hkuros253135-
dc.identifier.volume64-
dc.identifier.spage1-
dc.identifier.epage11-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000366225000001-
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom-
dc.identifier.issnl0143-6228-

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