Public Involvement in Planning and Local Government Committment to Hazard Mitigation

本研究将调查公众在多大程度上参与州和联邦的项目，以促进减灾规划可能是有效的。这项研究将利用目前正在进行的项目活动，这些项目活动在已经要求制定地方政府综合计划的州的地方政府和正在参与联邦紧急事务管理局的社区评级系统（CRS）并已制定洪泛平原管理计划的地方政府之间进行。数据将从佛罗里达州和华盛顿州的100个地方政府样本中收集。案例研究还将在三个具有公民参与模范努力的司法管辖区进行，以了解统计结果是否可以使用定性方法复制，进一步阐明公民参与是否转化为政府官员承诺解决危害的过程，并揭示各种公众参与技术如何影响这些过程。这项研究将对各种自然灾害产生影响。

CMS 9801155BurbyThis research will investigate the extent to which public involvement in state and federal programs to foster hazard mitigation planning is likely to be effective. The research will take advantage of program activities now underway among local governments in states that have mandated the preparation of local government comprehensive plans and among local governments that are participating the Federal Emergency Management agency's Community Rating System (CRS) and have prepared flood plain management plans. Data will be gathered from a sample of 100 local governments within Florida and Washington. Case studies will also be conducted in three jurisdictions with exemplary citizen involvement efforts in order to see if statistical results can be replicated using qualitative methods, shed additional light on the processes through which citizen involvement is, or is not, translated into commitment by public officials to address hazards, and to reveal how various public involvement techniques affect these processes. This research will have implications for various kinds of natural hazards.