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  • Chapter 21 - Mobilisation and Deterioration of Social Support Following Disasters Resulting from Natural and Human-Induced Hazards

  • from Section 3 - The Role of the Public in Emergencies: Survivors, Bystanders, and Volunteers
  • Edited by Richard Williams, University of South Wales, Verity Kemp, Independent Health Emergency Planning Consultant, Keith Porter, University of Birmingham, Tim Healing, Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, John Drury, University of Sussex
  • Book:
    Major Incidents, Pandemics and Mental Health
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    01 February 2024, pp 147-153

  • Summary

    The capacity of a collective to triumph over shared adversities is based on maintaining and augmenting social cohesion, mutual support, cooperation, and a sense of belonging to a valued social group and community. Initially many disasters are attended by affected communities mobilising into a heroic and altruistic struggle to fulfil survivors’ immediate needs, and to shield them from an overwhelming sense of loss. However, this heroic stage inevitably ceases, and may not be sufficient to conquer slowly evolving erosion of social relationships. This chapter reviews empirical investigations documenting that, post disaster, the path of instantaneous mobilisation of resources emerges in the domain of received social support. The path of a lingering sense of deterioration of resources occurs in the domain of perceived social support and social embeddedness. Differences in the dynamics of social support between disasters resulting from natural and human-induced hazards are noted.