Abstract
Border regions between different countries are of special interest in studying international relationships, which is a current topic in today’s globalized and interconnected world. To strengthen their disaster resilience, it is important for local decision-makers to understand the spontaneous willingness of the population to help affected people in their region. This article presents a novel framework based on Social Capital and Weiners’ Motivational Theory of Mutual Help to quantify peoples’ willingness to help (WTH) surveyed for the hypothetical case of a natural disaster. We compared the potential helping behavior between neighbored regions and neighbored countries in France and Germany, and also in the border area between the two countries. We found a significant correlation between trust and WTH in a neighboring region and identified determinants of WTH in a neighboring country. Implications for today’s world in terms of globalization and disaster response as the Covid-19 pandemic are discussed.
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