ROLE OF RESILEIENCE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL IN SPEEDING UP RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS AT LOCAL COMMUNITY LEVEL; Case Study: Zargandeh Community, Tehran, IRAN

Post-earthquake events indicate that local communities usually face many complicated problems, including severe destruction and economic crisis. This has been causing reconstruction time to be last longer than usual. Recent studies on post-earthquake reconstruction indicate that local communities with high level resilience could cope with post disaster problems; especially at reconstruction works in a better way compared with those lack such abilities. Reducing recovery and reconstruction periods was significant in resilient local communities.This paper, based on a field study conducted to examine resilience level and social capital of Zargandeh local community in Tehran, Iran; at recovery period follows an expected earthquake event. Based on a theoretical framework regarding resilience and social capital, the paper endeavor to study how local community can be reset its strength and ability to cope with disaster after math problems. A field study including household survey, observation and data collection, using a descriptive analytical method.The results show that significant correlation between high level resilience of local communities and reducing post disaster recovery period. The results also indicate that people participation would develop social capital, and in turn, can enable local people to cope with aftermath problems, increasing resilience level