TY - JOUR
T1 - Influence of personal and collective social capital on flood preparedness and community resilience
T2 - Evidence from Old Fadama, Ghana
AU - Abunyewah, Matthew
AU - Erdiaw-Kwasie, Michael Odei
AU - Okyere, Seth Asare
AU - Thayaparan, Gajendran
AU - Byrne, Mitchell
AU - Lassa, Jonatan
AU - Zander, Kerstin K.
AU - Fatemi, Md Nawrose
AU - Maund, Kim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors
PY - 2023/8
Y1 - 2023/8
N2 - Social capital constitutes an important resource in vulnerable cities of the developing world where formal disaster management capacities are weak, responses are limited, and socio-economic deprivations run deep along spatial dimensions. Yet, little is known about how the different types of social capital contribute to flood preparedness and better community resilience, particularly in informal settlement settings. Drawing on a survey of 391 respondents in Old Fadama, an informal settlement in Ghana, and using structural equation modelling, we found that personal and collective social capitals are significant predictors of flood preparedness and community resilience. However, collective social capital has a stronger predictive ability than personal social capital. Also, flood preparedness mediated the relationship between personal and collective social capital and community resilience. This makes it imperative for disaster managers and policymakers to recognise and work within the existing individual and collective networks, which has the potential to activate “soft” capital accumulation necessary to transition communities from vulnerability to resilience.
AB - Social capital constitutes an important resource in vulnerable cities of the developing world where formal disaster management capacities are weak, responses are limited, and socio-economic deprivations run deep along spatial dimensions. Yet, little is known about how the different types of social capital contribute to flood preparedness and better community resilience, particularly in informal settlement settings. Drawing on a survey of 391 respondents in Old Fadama, an informal settlement in Ghana, and using structural equation modelling, we found that personal and collective social capitals are significant predictors of flood preparedness and community resilience. However, collective social capital has a stronger predictive ability than personal social capital. Also, flood preparedness mediated the relationship between personal and collective social capital and community resilience. This makes it imperative for disaster managers and policymakers to recognise and work within the existing individual and collective networks, which has the potential to activate “soft” capital accumulation necessary to transition communities from vulnerability to resilience.
KW - Collective social capital
KW - Community resilience
KW - Flood preparedness
KW - Ghana
KW - Old fadama
KW - Personal social capital
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85162164242&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103790
DO - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103790
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85162164242
SN - 2212-4209
VL - 94
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
JF - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
M1 - 103790
ER -
