Social, not physical, infrastructure: the critical role of civil society after the 1923 Tokyo earthquake

Despite the tremendous destruction wrought by catastrophes, social science holds few quantitative assessments of explanations for the rate of recovery. This article illuminates four factors—damage, population density, human capital, and economic capital—that are thought to explain the variation in t...

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Published in:	Disasters Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 398 - 419
Main Author:	Aldrich, Daniel P.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2012
Subjects:	Accidents Capital Civil Society Cross-sectional analysis Cross-Sectional Studies Cultural Capital Damage Disaster management Disaster recovery Disaster Relief Disasters Disasters - history Earthquake damage Earthquake prediction Earthquakes Earthquakes - history Earthquakes - statistics & numerical data Economic conditions Economic Factors Economics Handling History, 20th Century Human Capital Humans Infrastructure Japan Mathematical models Natural disasters Neighborhoods Population Population Density Population Dynamics - history Propensity Propensity Score Public policy Quantitative analysis Recovery Residence Characteristics Seismic activity Seismic phenomena Social capital Social Environment Social factors Social sciences Studies Time series Tokyo Tokyo earthquake Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Tokyo Japan Japan
ISSN:	0361-3666, 1467-7717, 1467-7717
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