“If Somebody Needed Help, I Went Over”: Social Capital and Therapeutic Communities of Older Adult Farmers in British Columbia Floods  

作　　者：Kyle Breen Siyu Ru Luna Vandeweghe Jenna Chiu Lindsay Heyland Haorui Wu 

机构地区：[1]School of Social Work,Dalhousie University,Halifax,NS B3H 1S2,Canada

出　　处：《International Journal of Disaster Risk Science》2024年第2期290-301,共12页国际灾害风险科学学报（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR)’s quick response research program: 2021 British Columbia’s Fraser Valley Flooding;funding from the Canada Research Chairs Program (Award # CRC-2020-00128)。

摘　　要：Older adults in disaster contexts are often thought of as a passive, vulnerable population that lacks agency and capacities to cope in the aftermath. However, it can be argued that older adults may have underrecognized strengths that can be utilized pre-, peri-, and post-disaster. One of these strengths is older adults' unique social capital that stems from long-standing connections with other members of their respective communities. Using data from in-depth, semistructured interviews with farmers in British Columbia 3–11 months after the 2021 floods, this research explored the experiences of older adult farmers' recovery. The farmers discussed how they leveraged their social capital to aid in their recovery efforts from the flood event. By using their bonding social capital, older adult farmers transformed their existing, deep-rooted connections into post-disaster assistance. This, in turn, generated the idea of the therapeutic community, helping community members cope in the aftermath. This research indicated the need to further examine how older adults in disaster settings can be viewed as assets with community knowledge and skills as opposed to solely as a vulnerable population.

关 键 词：British Columbia Flood disaster Older adults Qualitative research Social capital Therapeutic community 

分 类 号：C912.3[经济管理] C913.6[社会学] TV87[水利工程—水利水电工程]