Businesses and Disasters: Consequences of Disaster Victimization for Businesses and Business Districts

*9632779蒂尔尼这个为期两年的项目解决了三个相关问题：(1)灾害对个别企业有什么长期后果？(2)什么因素与企业不同的灾害后果有关？(3)对商业和商业区的严重和集中破坏对那些高度受损地区的商业活动有什么后果？该项目将重点关注在两次重大灾难中遭受严重破坏和破坏的两个地理区域：加利福尼亚州圣克鲁斯县及其社区Santa Cruz和Watsonville，在1989年的Loma Prieta地震中遭到严重破坏；以及佛罗里达州南部戴德县及其社区Homestead和佛罗里达州，在1992年的安德鲁飓风中遭受严重破坏。将进行两项主要任务：(1)对每个地区具有代表性的随机企业样本进行邮寄调查；(2)收集访谈数据、社会指标数据和记录严重受损商业区发生了哪些与灾害有关的变化的档案材料。*

*** 9632779 Tierney This two-year project addresses three related questions: (1) What longer-term consequences do disasters have for individual businesses?, (2) What factors are associated with differential disaster outcomes for businesses?, and (3) What consequences does heavy and concentrated damage to business and commercial districts have for business activity in those high-damaged areas? The project will focus on two geographic areas that suffered severe damage and disruption in two major disasters: Santa Cruz County, California and its communities of Santa Cruz and Watsonville, which were heavily damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake; and Southern Dade County, Florida and its communities of Homestead and Florida City, which sustained major damage in Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Two main tasks will be undertaken: (1) conducting mail surveys on representative, random samples of businesses in each area: and (2) collecting interview data, social indicator data, and archival material documenting what disaster-related changes, if any, have taken place in heavily damaged business districts.***