Capturing Bonding, Bridging, and Linking Social Capital through Publicly Available Data

A growing body of research has illuminated the powerful role played by social capital in influencing disaster and resilience outcomes. Popular vulnerability mapping frameworks, while well suited for capturing demographic characteristics such as age, race, and wealth, do not include sufficient proxies for social capital. This article proposes a concrete way to measure bonding, bridging, and linking social capital using widely available...