Getting By and Getting Out: How Residents of Louisiana’s Frontline Communities Are Adapting to Environmental Change
Getting By and Getting Out: How Residents of Louisiana’s Frontline Communities Are Adapting to Environmental Change
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出行和出去：路易斯安那州前线社区的居民如何适应环境变化
DOI：
10.1080/10511482.2021.1925944
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
A. Brand
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文献类型：
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作者：
Marla Nelson;Renia Ehrenfeucht;T. Birch;A. Brand
学者们认为，美国旨在帮助家庭适应或远离环境风险的计划和政策并不是为了应对气候变化而设计的。另一些国家则表明，救灾工作维护并产生了结构性不平等。本文探讨了现有的减缓和适应政策如何未能对处于环境变化第一线的居民和社区的生活条件做出反应，并使不平等现象永久化。基于对路易斯安那州特雷博讷教区下游河口社区居民和在研究区工作的专业人员的采访，我们确定了三个影响缓解和搬迁措施结果的因素。首先，我们发现，适应是一个动态的、持续的过程，随着时间的推移，可能导致特定财产或家庭需要多种类型的援助。其次，项目的时间安排和居民如何决定是否以及如何重建或搬迁是不一致的。第三，目前的计划通过为中低收入家庭制造参与障碍，剥夺了一线社区的资源。调查结果证实，如果援助计划要以响应居民优先事项和环境变化现实的方式改变社区，就需要更灵活的政策指导方针。
ABSTRACT Scholars argue that U.S. programs and policy designed to help households adapt to or move away from environmental risk were not designed to address climate change. Others demonstrate that disaster response upholds and produces structural inequality. This article examines how existing mitigation and adaptation policies fail to respond to lived conditions of residents and communities on the front lines of environmental change and perpetuate inequality. Based on interviews with residents in the lower bayou communities of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, and professionals working in the study area, we identified three factors that influence the outcomes of mitigation and relocation initiatives. First, we found that adaptation is a dynamic, ongoing process which can lead to the need for multiple types of assistance for a given property or household over time. Second, program timing and how residents make decisions about whether and how to rebuild or relocate are misaligned. Third, current programs deny resources to frontline communities by creating participation barriers for low- and moderate-income households. The findings affirm the need for more flexible policy guidelines if assistance programs are to transform communities in ways that respond to resident priorities and the realities of environmental change.
影响因子：
10.5
作者：
Hunter LM;Luna JK;Norton RM
通讯作者：
Norton RM
影响因子：
3.5
作者：
Hardy, R. Dean;Milligan, Richard A.;Heynen, Nik
通讯作者：
Heynen, Nik