Filling the Civil-Society Vacuum: Post-Disaster Policy and Community Response
Filling the Civil-Society Vacuum: Post-Disaster Policy and Community Response
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填补公民社会的真空：灾后政策和社区响应
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.1349871
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发表时间：
2009
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通讯作者：
V. Storr
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作者：
Emily L. Chamlee;V. Storr
像卡特里娜飓风这样的大规模灾难不仅摧毁了房屋、街道和其他建筑物等物理基础设施，而且还分散了人口。企业、社区组织和其他私人利益相关者的缺席导致了“公民社会真空”，政府的作用往往会扩大。当社区在不确定性中挣扎着恢复时，政府的介入加剧了这种不确定性，并抑制了强劲复苏的前景。本政策评论讨论了灾难性灾难后产生的公民社会真空以及政府政策对社区恢复的影响。新奥尔良三个受卡特里娜飓风后洪水影响的社区的经历说明了社区可能成功或失败的方式，为我们如何改进灾后政策提供了一个教训。
Large-scale disasters like Hurricane Katrina destroy not only physical infrastructure like homes, streets, and other buildings, but also scatter populations. The absence of businesses, community organizations, and other private stakeholders results in a "civil-society vacuum" in which the role of government tends to expand. As communities struggle to rebound in the midst of uncertainty, this government involvement furthers such uncertainties and inhibits the prospect of robust recovery.This policy comment discusses this civil-society vacuum that is created in the aftermath of a catastrophic disaster and the effect government policies have on community rebound. The experiences of three New Orleans communities affected by post-Katrina flooding illustrate the ways in which communities may succeed or fail, providing a lesson for how we might improve post-disaster policy.