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Replication Data for: Better Together? The role of Social Capital in Urban Social Vulnerability

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication Data for: Better Together? The role of Social Capital in Urban Social Vulnerability
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YCUNHJ
 
Creator Fraser, Timothy
Nicole Naquin
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This study examines why some communities are more vulnerable than others,focusing on the transformative effect of residents’ social capital on changing levels of vulnerability over time. We examine the case of Japan, the third largest economy in the world. Japan faces dozens of earthquakes, floods, and typhoons each year, but some communities are more socially vulnerable in the face of disaster than others. Drawing on difference-in-differences models and matching experiments, we test the effect of bonding, bridging, and linking social capital on vulnerability. We find that controlling for cities’ governance capacity, resource demand based on population, and damage from recent hazards,the level of bonding social capital in a community leads to lower levels of vulnerability. However, other types of social capital do not immediately lead to lower vulnerability, implying that greater government support is necessary in these cases.
 
Subject Earth and Environmental Sciences
Social Sciences
social capital
social vulnerability
resilience
Japan
 
Contributor Fraser, Timothy