Articles · Topic
Articles about Social Capital
10 articles across 3 sections
Section
Community
Building Roots: The Relationships That Hold a Community Together
Your preparedness ceiling is set by the relationships you build before you need them. A practical guide to becoming someone your community would miss.
Know Your Neighbors, Community Resilience
The research is clear: knowing your neighbors is the single most effective preparedness action you can take. Here's what that means and how to do it.
Social Capital and Disasters, Community Resilience
Thirty years of disaster research answers the same question: why do some communities survive and recover while others don't? The answer is social capital.
The Four-Door Introduction: Meet Your Closest Neighbors
A practical guide to meeting the four households closest to yours. Scripts for the first conversation, what information to exchange, and how to turn awkward introductions into a genuine preparedness resource.
The Long View: Why Connected Households Outlast Isolated Ones
Retreat, compound, or community? The research on what actually carries households through hard times, and why the isolated strategy fails where the connected one works.
Section
Field Notes
How to Meet Your Neighbors Without Making It Weird
Most people want to know their neighbors and dread the first knock. The liking gap research, the Chicago heat wave lesson, and five low-stakes openers that make the second conversation happen.
Nobody Survives Alone: Retiring the Lone Wolf
The lone-wolf survivor versus the research: Daniel Aldrich on social capital, the Columbia lions, lambs, and lone wolves survey, and how to add people to a household plan without giving up supplies.
Section
Gear and Buying Guides
A Paradise Built in Hell
Rebecca Solnit
Community Preparedness & Civic Resilience, Recommended Books
Books about the civic institutions, mutual aid, community organizing, and shared spaces that determine how neighborhoods survive and recover. Curated for New World Survival readers.
Palaces for the People
Eric Klinenberg