Collaborative Research - Small Grant for Exploratory Research: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Coastal Vulnerability and Community Sustainability

职务名称： 合作研究-探索性研究的小额赠款：沿海脆弱性和社区可持续性的跨学科方法这个合作研究项目为路易斯安那州大河口的一个小型沿海社区的灾害研究提供了一种独特的探索性方法。 这个跨文化的美洲原住民（Atakapa，Houma）和125个Cajun社区代表了一个自然的研究实验室，非常适合在沿海脆弱性高的地区研究社区的可持续性。大河口社区正在努力平衡自然灾害、经济发展和社区可持续性的威胁。 由于反复发生的自然灾害、海岸侵蚀和经济损失，以及对文化遗产和社交网络的威胁，它处于生存的边缘。 它只能通过水路到达，位于新奥尔良南部的沿海湿地，位于密西西比大堤保护区以西一英里处。 示范性行动研究（PAR）是一种可行的和文化上适当的研究策略，它将：（1）观察和记录 他们的努力;（2）口头和视觉记录和理解他们的遗产;（3）评估人类、建筑和自然系统;（4）采用一种独特的方法进行灾害研究，使用一个基础广泛的跨学科团队。 迅速收集数据是必要的，因为这个社区不稳定，自然灾害，预计死亡的老人，和移民的经济和身体生存。像大河口这样的小型非建制农村社区在面对灾害、应对灾害或灾后恢复方面往往缺乏足够的关注、宣传和资源。 Grand Bayou是一个适当的调查地点，旨在了解最容易遭受损失但具有文化基础的生存潜力的社区。

Title: Collaborative Research - Small Grant for Exploratory Research: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Coastal Vulnerability and Community Sustainability This collaborative research project offers a unique, exploratory methodology for hazards research for a small coastal community, Grand Bayou, Louisiana. This intercultural Native American (Atakapa, Houma) and Cajun community of 125 represents a natural research laboratory well-suited to the study of community sustainability in an area of high coastal vulnerability. The Grand Bayou community is struggling to balance the threat of natural hazards, economic development and community sustainability. It is perched on the edge of survival due to repeated natural disasters, coastal erosion, and economic losses, as well as threats to cultural heritage and social networks. It is only accessible by water, is located in coastal wetlands south of New Orleans, and lies one mile west outside the protection of the Mississippi levee. Participatory action research (PAR) represents a viable and culturally appropriate research strategy that will: (1) observe and record their efforts; (2) document and understand their heritage orally and visually; (3) assess human, built and natural systems; (4) apply a methodology unique to hazards research that uses a broad based interdisciplinary team. Rapid data collection is imperative due to the precariousness of this community from natural disaster, anticipated deaths among the elders, and migration for economic and physical survival. Small unincorporated and rural communities such as Grand Bayou often lack adequate attention, advocacy and resources in facing, responding to, or recovering from disasters. Grand Bayou represents an appropriate location for inquiry designed to generate knowledge on communities most vulnerable to loss but with a culturally based potential to survive.