Lecturer in Urban Geography at the School of Geoscience, University of Sydney, Australia.
Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Disasters. 2018 Jul;42(3):571-589. doi: 10.1111/disa.12257. Epub 2017 Oct 24.
This paper explores how social networks and bonds within and across organisations shape disaster operations and strategies. Local government disaster training exercises serve as a window through which to view these relations, and 'social capital' is used as an analytic for making sense of the human relations at the core of disaster management operations. These elements help to expose and substantiate the often intangible relations that compose the culture that exists, and that is shaped by preparations for disasters. The study reveals how this social capital has been generated through personal interactions, which are shared among disaster managers across different organisations and across 'levels' within those organisations. Recognition of these 'group resources' has significant implications for disaster management in which conducive social relations have become paramount. The paper concludes that socio-cultural relations, as well as a people-centred approach to preparations, appear to be effective means of readying for, and ultimately responding to, disasters.
本文探讨了社会网络以及组织内部和组织之间的联系如何影响灾害应对和策略。地方政府灾害培训演习提供了一个视角，可以从中观察这些关系，而“社会资本”则被用作分析灾害管理运营核心的人际关系的工具。这些元素有助于揭示和证实构成灾害存在的文化的那些往往无形的关系，以及这些关系是由灾害准备所塑造的。该研究揭示了这种社会资本是如何通过个人互动产生的，这些互动在不同组织的灾害管理者之间以及这些组织内部的“层次”之间共享。认识到这些“群体资源”对灾害管理具有重要意义，因为有利的社会关系已变得至关重要。本文得出结论，社会文化关系以及以人为本的准备方法似乎是为灾害做好准备并最终应对灾害的有效手段。
