A Study on the Influence of Social Capital on Community Disaster Resilience

This study highlighted the differentiation from existing researches and on the assumption that social capital will function as an important element in disaster resilience, this study was conducted to explore the influence of social capital on the community disaster resilience through relative importance analysis about the necessity of social capital for the improvement of disaster resilience. As a result, the research outcomes showed that experts recognized reliability factor as most important for the relative importance of social capital in bringing improvement of social community disaster resilience, and it was perceived that participation factor must be established. Additionally, in the result of the overall importance ranking that considered the composite weighted values, the importance was recognized by the order of social participation, politics, reliability about the administrative leaders, and community network. Based on this, it means that reliability about politics and administration are important and active participation is required from the local residents and the community.