Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation

Eric Jones is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He received his B.A. in Political Science from Hamline University in Minnesota and Ph.D. in Environmental and Ecological Anthropology from the University of Georgia. His research interests generally concern how people work together. More specifically, he has examined collective action or cooperation in exchange, rural production, adaptation to extreme events, wellbeing in vulnerable populations, and how non-scientists engage science. Most of this work has involved social network analysis to understand how individuals or groups interact. In order to support theoretical and analytical needs of his work, he also has been involved in software innovation for social network applications. AJ Faas is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University. His work focuses on exchange practices, social organization, organizational practice, and epistemology in contexts of environmental crisis--disasters, displacement and resettlement, development, and violent conflict.. His has principally conducted research in Mexico and Ecuador, but also in the United States and China. He is a founding member of the Risk and Disasters Topical Interest Group at the Society for Applied Anthropology, where he has organized more than 200 panels on the applied social science of risk, hazards, and disasters.

• Part I: Social Network Analysis in Disaster Response, Recovery and Adaptation1. An Introduction to Social Networks in Disaster Response, Recovery and Adaptation Eric C. Jones and A.J. Faas 2. Social Network Analysis Focused on Individuals Facing Hazards and Disasters A.J. Faas and Eric C. Jones 3. Interorganizational Networks in Disaster ManagementNaim Kapucu and Fatih Demiroz 4. Strategies for Researching Social Networks in Disaster Response, Recovery and Mitigation Danielle M. VardaPart II: Networks in Disaster Response5. Perspective Matters: The Challenges of Performance Measurement in Wildfire Response Networks in the Western United States Branda Nowell, Toddi Steelman, Anne-Lise Knox Velez and Sherrie Godette 6. Interorganizational Resilience: Networked Collaborations in Communities after Superstorm Sandy Jack L. Harris Jr. and Marya L. Doerfel 7. Shifting Attention: Modelling Follower Relationship Dynamics among US Emergency Management-related OrganizationsZack W. Almquist, Emma S. Spiro and Carter T. Butts 8. The Effect of Hurricane Ike on Tie Activation in a Community Based Network StudyChristopher Steven Marcum, Anna V. Wilkinson and Laura M. Koehly Part III: Networks in Disaster Recovery9. The Family’s Burden: Perceived Social Network Resources for Individual Disaster Resilience in Hazard-Prone FloridaMichelle A. Meyer10. A Road to Resilience: Inter-Institutional Network Dynamics in Wenchuan Earthquake Recovery Jia Lu11. Organizational Support Networks and Relational Resilience after 2010-2011 Earthquakes in Canterbury, New Zealand Joanne R. Stevenson and David Conradson 12. Mental Health and Participation in New Social Networks following a Day Care Fire in Hermosillo, Mexico Maria L. Rangel, Arthur D. Murphy and Eric C. Jones Part IV: Networks in Hazard Mitigation and Adaptation13. Network Strategies of Hazard Adaptation among West African PastoralistsMark Moritz14. Cyclones alter Risk Sharing against Illness through Networks and Groups: Evidence from Fiji Yoshito Takasaki15. Stay or Relocate: The Roles of Networks after the Great East Japan EarthquakeYoung-Jun Lee, Hiroaki Sugiura and Ingrida Geciene 16. Personal Networks and Long-Term Gendered Post-Disaster Wellbeing in Mexico and EcuadorGraham A. Tobin, C. McCarty, Arthur D. Murphy, Linda M. Whiteford and Eric C. JonesPart V: Conclusions17. The Practical and Policy Relevance of Social Network Analysis for Disaster Response, Recovery and AdaptationJulie K. Maldonado