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Building a Disaster-Resilient Community in Taiwan: A Social Capital Analysis of the Meizhou Experience

出版	SSOAR, GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V., 2020
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AYWxzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Abstract: Resilience has always been key to successful disaster governance throughout the world. Local communities can play an important role in promoting disaster preparedness and executing front-line relief to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of both local and national disaster governance. This article addresses a unique case of how a flood-prone, rural, and ageing community in Yilan County, Taiwan, successfully mobilized its citizens for disaster preparedness. Through the lens of social capital analysis, this article unpacks how Bonding Social Capital, Bridging Social Capital, and Linking Social Capital work, by tracing the process through which awareness of disaster resilience was developed and practised in the Meizhou Community. Since 2012, Meizhou has been recognized as a model of disaster preparedness and relief in Taiwan, and in 2019 this recognition was extended to the wider Indo-Pacific region. We begin the discussion of this article by contextualizing social capital as