Construction Research Congress 2020
The Influence of Reconstruction Modality, Social Capital, and Community Satisfaction on Willingness to Participate in Resilience-Building Activities
Publication: Construction Research Congress 2020: Project Management and Controls, Materials, and Contracts
ABSTRACT
Resilience-building by community members is critical to withstand future disasters, and post-disaster reconstruction provides an opportunity to enhance rebuilding. Thus, a better understanding of what promotes or impedes willingness to participate in community resilience-building activities, such as community members attending meetings, helping neighbors with construction activities, creating emergency response plans, or reducing risk in other ways, is needed. Household surveys were administered to 12 communities impacted by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines to investigate how social capital, community satisfaction, and reconstruction assistance modality influence community members’ willingness to take action to increase their resilience. Findings show social capital, or social relationships and networks, and reconstruction assistance modality, or method employed to assist with home reconstruction, had significant effects on whether households plan to take action to build their communities’ resilience. The relocated communities who received donor-built houses indicated the highest willingness to participate in resilience-building activities, followed by the communities with donor-built houses that were reconstructed in place of their pre-disaster homes, and finally the communities who self-recovered through the local building sector. The results of this study inform research and organizational policy on the relationship between the elements of social capital, community satisfaction, and method of reconstruction assistance that encourage plans to action towards disaster community-wide resilience.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank our research assistants, Dina Pelayo, Jennylyn Budlong, Hyacinth Raga, Angelou Cinco, and Denver Evangelista, and all the participants in this research for their time and support. This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment Program Award #1901808, the University of Colorado Research and Innovation Office (RIO) 2017 Seed Grant, the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering, and U.S. Department of Education’s Graduate Assistantship in Areas of National Need Award No. P200A150042. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of RIO, the U.S. Department of Education, or the National Science Foundation.
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Construction Research Congress 2020: Project Management and Controls, Materials, and Contracts
Pages: 125 - 133
Editors: David Grau, Ph.D., Arizona State University, Pingbo Tang, Ph.D., Arizona State University, and Mounir El Asmar, Ph.D., Arizona State University
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8288-9
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