Natural Disasters As A Catalyst For Social Capital: A Study Of The 500-Year Flood In Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Natural Disasters as a Catalyst for Social Capital examines the vastly under-explored link between natural disasters and social capital in regards to the unprecedented June 2008 flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In-depth qualitative interviews with flood victims and key informants in Cedar Rapids reveal that a resident's perception of social capital after a natural disaster is shaped by their vulnerabilities and social mobility, which vary substantially and need to be understood contextually. This book, in highlighting the enormous impact of one disaster in a mid-sized Midwestern city, offers a framework for a new theory for why social capital shifts in societies from one generation to another: the transformative impact of shared traumas.

• | Author: Kevin F. Adler
• | Publisher: University Press Of America
• | Publication Date: Apr 29, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 108 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0761864660
• | ISBN-13: 9780761864660