Social, not physical, infrastructure: The critical role of civil society after the 1923 Tokyo earthquake

Disasters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 398-419

  Aldrich, Daniel P ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster recovery; Social capital; Tokyo earthquake

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CIVIL SOCIETY; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; HUMAN CAPITAL; POLICY APPROACH; POPULATION DENSITY; RESEARCH; SOCIAL CAPITAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; HISTORY; HUMAN; JAPAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROPENSITY SCORE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOKYO;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 84862490560     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2011.01263.x     Document Type: Article

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