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

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Autor(a) principal: Yang, Alan Hao
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Wu, Judy Shu-Hsien
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3106
Resumo: 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 a theoretical departure to the empirical analysis of the Meizhou experience. This is followed by an exploration of how Bonding Social Capital was able to consolidate the community, and how Bridging Social Capital can facilitate the collaboration among functional groups in and beyond the Meizhou locality, and to what extent Linking Social Capital can implement Meizhou’s experience on a national and even international scale. This article is based on a qualitative assessment of long-term fieldwork, interviews, and participatory observation conducted by the authors in the Meizhou community.
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spelling Building a Disaster-Resilient Community in Taiwan: A Social Capital Analysis of the Meizhou Experiencecommunity-based governance; disaster preparedness; disaster resilience; Meizhou; social capital; TaiwanResilience 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 a theoretical departure to the empirical analysis of the Meizhou experience. This is followed by an exploration of how Bonding Social Capital was able to consolidate the community, and how Bridging Social Capital can facilitate the collaboration among functional groups in and beyond the Meizhou locality, and to what extent Linking Social Capital can implement Meizhou’s experience on a national and even international scale. This article is based on a qualitative assessment of long-term fieldwork, interviews, and participatory observation conducted by the authors in the Meizhou community.Cogitatio2020-12-10info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3106oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3106Politics and Governance; Vol 8, No 4 (2020): The Politics of Disaster Governance; 386-3942183-2463reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/3106https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3106https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/3106/3106Copyright (c) 2020 Alan Hao Yang, Judy Shu-Hsien Wuhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessYang, Alan HaoWu, Judy Shu-Hsien2022-10-21T16:04:08Zoai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3106Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:13:51.544826Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Building a Disaster-Resilient Community in Taiwan: A Social Capital Analysis of the Meizhou Experience
title Building a Disaster-Resilient Community in Taiwan: A Social Capital Analysis of the Meizhou Experience
spellingShingle Building a Disaster-Resilient Community in Taiwan: A Social Capital Analysis of the Meizhou Experience
Yang, Alan Hao
community-based governance; disaster preparedness; disaster resilience; Meizhou; social capital; Taiwan
title_short Building a Disaster-Resilient Community in Taiwan: A Social Capital Analysis of the Meizhou Experience
title_full Building a Disaster-Resilient Community in Taiwan: A Social Capital Analysis of the Meizhou Experience
title_fullStr Building a Disaster-Resilient Community in Taiwan: A Social Capital Analysis of the Meizhou Experience
title_full_unstemmed Building a Disaster-Resilient Community in Taiwan: A Social Capital Analysis of the Meizhou Experience
title_sort Building a Disaster-Resilient Community in Taiwan: A Social Capital Analysis of the Meizhou Experience
author Yang, Alan Hao
author_facet Yang, Alan Hao
Wu, Judy Shu-Hsien
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author2 Wu, Judy Shu-Hsien
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Yang, Alan Hao
Wu, Judy Shu-Hsien
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv community-based governance; disaster preparedness; disaster resilience; Meizhou; social capital; Taiwan
topic community-based governance; disaster preparedness; disaster resilience; Meizhou; social capital; Taiwan
description 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 a theoretical departure to the empirical analysis of the Meizhou experience. This is followed by an exploration of how Bonding Social Capital was able to consolidate the community, and how Bridging Social Capital can facilitate the collaboration among functional groups in and beyond the Meizhou locality, and to what extent Linking Social Capital can implement Meizhou’s experience on a national and even international scale. This article is based on a qualitative assessment of long-term fieldwork, interviews, and participatory observation conducted by the authors in the Meizhou community.
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