Abstract
Benno Torgler of Queensland University of Technology and EBS Universitat fur Wirtschaft und Recht reviews, “Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery” by Daniel P. Aldrich. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores how social resources, networks, and connections influence postdisaster recovery, drawing upon experiences from four major disasters in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Discusses social capital—its role in postdisaster recovery; social capital—a Janus-faced resource for recovery; the Tokyo earthquake, 1923; the Kobe earthquake, 1995; the Indian Ocean tsunami, 2004; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; and between state and market—the way forward. Aldrich is Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University.”
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