NDLI: The dynamic process of social capital during recovery from Tropical Storm Irene in Vermont

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Author	Consoer, Mackenzie Milman, Anita
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	In the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene, recovery groups emerged throughout Vermont to assist victims with needs remaining after personal savings, insurance payments, and government assistance were depleted. This research links the concepts of ‘the strange attractor’ and ‘butterfly effect’ from chaos theory with theories of social capital to examine how initial conditions influence the emergence of recovery groups and subsequent recovery processes. In many communities, recovery group formation was driven by informal community efforts via bonding and bridging social capital. In areas with less social capital, governmental actors from within the state and federal disaster framework facilitated the formation of recovery groups via linking social capital. Formation pathways had cascading impacts on recovery group ability to acquire resources for group administration and victim recovery. Recovery groups driven by informal community actors experienced proliferating social capital and access to high-value resources. However, linking social capital with the state and federal disaster framework ensured all recovery groups had adequate resources for victim recovery and equalized growing inequalities across them. All recovery groups were closing their remaining victim cases within 2 years after the disaster. Vermont’s success points to how the state and federal disaster framework can coordinate with informal community efforts to create an adaptive recovery process that leverages their complementary strengths.
Starting Page	155
Ending Page	174
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0921030X
Journal	Natural Hazards
Volume Number	84
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15730840
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-06-15
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Social capital Networks Floods Disasters Governance Emergence Chaos theory Natural Hazards Hydrogeology Geophysics/Geodesy Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Civil Engineering Environmental Management
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Atmospheric Science Water Science and Technology

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