Modeling Resource Network Relationships Between Response Organizations and Affected Neighborhoods After a Technological Disaster

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ID12249705
AutoresC H Lai (0000-0001-8060-6114, autor de correspondencia), Chen-Chao Tao (0000-0002-2513-9952), Yuchung Cheng (0000-0003-4107-392X), Yu-Chung Cheng
Año2017
Volumen28
Número5
Páginas2145-2175
Fecha de publicación2017-06-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVoluntas Revista Internacional de Filosofia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2179-3786 • E-ISSN: 1573-7888
EditorialSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s11266-017-9887-4
OpenAlexW2621939460
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas66

Disaster usually provides a good opportunity to observe the convergence of voluntary organized response efforts. However, the extent to which response organizations and affected neighborhoods go through the relief process similarly or differently is surprisingly less studied. Integrating the framework of community ecology and the concept of community resilience, this study examines the evolutionary process of an emergent disaster response community that consists of the populations of response organizations and affected neighborhoods. Using a technological disaster that occurred in Taiwan in July 2014 as the research context, this study shows that response organizations’ resource provision network and affected neighborhoods’ resource receipt network exhibited similar structural tendencies over the phases of disaster response and rebuilding. The process of mutual resource mobilization was also observed as response organizations mobilized and provided resources to affected neighborhoods at the same time. Moreover, while affected neighborhoods tended to maintain their resource relationships consistently over time, the changing structural patterns of their resource network reflected individual engagement in resuming normality after the incident. Theoretical and practical implications for emergent post-disaster social and voluntary behavior are discussed through the lens of community ecology and community resilience

Business · Computer network · Disaster response · Economic growth · Economics · Emergency management · Knowledge management · Resource (disambiguation · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis · Risk Perception and Management