Judgements of Responsibilities for Disaster Consequences

在识别、预测和减轻 危险可能会产生重大变化， 公众评估灾害的道德和伦理责任 损失 它还应该影响那些参与 减灾，包括设计专业人员，企业， 和政府官员，判断自己的责任。 这 项目开始检查影响 对技术损失责任的判断 和自然灾害。 这项研究的初期阶段将 致力于两项任务：制定概念文件 解决主要的知识传统， 有助于理解责任判断;以及 主要维度（和变量）的识别 反映这些维度的组成部分）的属性 对灾难的责任。 在一个 跨学科咨询小组，在2010年的头六个月， 项目，调查人员将开发一系列概念 论文回顾了主要的知识传统， 用来了解人们如何判断责任， 案例研究材料在档案的大学 特拉华州的灾难研究中心，以确定潜在的 可作为初步评估基础的灾害的有用实例 场景开发工作。 在论文和危险中绘图 文献，影响潜在不同的关键维度 将确定责任归属。 第二 项目的一半将生成一组相关维度 和大量的场景。 尺寸将是 通过实验来研究它们如何影响 判断。 前期工作将在方便的情况下进行 样品 然而，为了从这个阶段产生可概括的数据， 在这项研究中，研究人员还计划进行一些 secnario开发工作与付费科目从 社区和一个“利益相关者”群体的代表， 很可能是工程师。 该项目的第一年将 制作一套用于实验和调查的情景 研究的阶段。 这些情景将基于一个 分析受试者的反应。 概念文件将是 发表在各种媒体上，早期的实验分析 也应该导致解决的可重复文件， 方法论问题，涉及到以粮农组织为基础的研究以及 作为灾害归因过程的概念发展 后果

Scientific advances in identifying, predicting and mitigating hazards are likely to produce significant changes in how the public assesses moral and ethical responsibility for disaster losses. It should also affect the way in which those involved in disaster mitigation, including design professionals, businesses, and government officials, judge their own responsibility. This project begins an examination of the factors that influence judgments of responsibility for losses from both technological and natural disasters. This initial period of the research will be devoted to two tasks: the development of concept papers addressing the major intellectual traditions that have contributed to understanding of judgments of responsibility; and the identification of the principal dimensions (and the variables that reflect components of those dimensions) of the attribution of responsibility for disasters. With the guidance of an interdisciplinary advisory group, in the first six months of the project, the investigators will develop a series of concept papers reviewing major intellectual traditions that have been used to understand how people judge responsibility, and review case study materials in the archives of the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center to identify potentially useful examples of disasters that can form the basis for initial scenario development work. Drawing on the papers and the hazards literature, key dimensions that influence potentially different attributions of responsibility will be identified. The second half of the project will generate a set of relevant dimensions and a large number of scenarios. The dimensions will then be varied experimentally to examine how they influence lay judgments. Premiminary work will be conducted with convenience samples . However, to produce generalizable data from this phase of the research, the investigators also plan to conduct some of the secnario development work with paid subjects from the community and with representatives of one "stakeholder" group, most likely engineers. The first year of the project will procude a set of scenarios to be used in experimental and survey phases of the research. The scenarios will be based on an analysis of the subjects' responses. The concept papers will be published in various outlets, and the early experimental analysis should also result in publishable papers addressing the methodological issues involved in scenario-based research as well as conceptual development of attribution processes for disaster consequences.