HSD SGER: Physical and Social Infrastructure Impacts and Interdependencies in the December 2004 Tsunami in Southern Thailand

HSD SGER：2004 年 12 月泰国南部海啸对物质和社会基础设施的影响以及相互依赖性

• 批准号: 0522154
• 负责人: William Wallace
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: SUNY at Albany
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-03-01 至 2008-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0522154&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSD; SGER; Physical; Social; Infrastructure

This Small Grant for Exploratory Research will allow the team of researchers to collect perishable data regarding the recovery of coastal southern Thailand after the December 2004 tsunami. The research will be informed by a coupled systems approach, which assumes that the aggregate social, political, economic and demographic characteristics of the affected areas are interdependent in a systems sense. The data will be used in models that test the hypothesis of coupling between physical and social systems.The December 2004 tsunami in south Asia did considerable physical and social damage to southern Thailand. This effort will focus on the collection of perishable data that can be used to apply the principles of systems science to complex sociotechnological relationships. This interdisciplinary approach is novel and can serve to define and quantify relationships between physical and social systems that have heretofore been only anecdotal. Both the social and engineering sciences will benefit by testing hypotheses developed and applied in economic sectors in a developing country.This research will assist in the development of basic knowledge about individual, group, and organizational behaviors and how they interplay with physical infrastructures in a formal systems context. It will also inform more realistic models, with which to test various organizational and operating practices. It will provide a foundation for future research on disasters of this magnitude. The data will be placed in a data repository of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Systems (NEES). In this way, the project will provide data for other NEES efforts in tsunami modeling and loss estimation. This research on the role played by physical and social infrastructure interdependencies will be of considerable usefulness to managers and government officials in natural hazards agencies, and to scholars who teach this material to students in emergency management courses. The lessons of this disaster also will be relevant to the United States, especially in areas potentially impacted by natural hazards such as, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, volcanism, and tsunamisThis project is being funded as an SGER because of the perishability of the data to be collected. In particular, it will provide direct observation of the interrelationships between the physical and social infrastructures during the recovery phase of a natural disaster. Because the accuracy of individual informants' memories falls off very quickly in the weeks and months after an event, it is crucial that this information be gathered as soon as practicable after the acute phase of the disaster.This research is supported jointly by the Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) priority area, the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE), and the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Program.

这项探索性研究的小额赠款将使研究小组能够收集关于2004年12月海啸后泰国南部沿海地区恢复情况的易腐数据。这项研究将采用一种耦合系统方法，假定受影响地区的总体社会、政治、经济和人口特征在系统意义上是相互依存的。2004年12月发生在南亚的海啸对泰国南部造成了相当大的物质和社会破坏。这项工作将侧重于收集易逝数据，这些数据可用于将系统科学原理应用于复杂的社会技术关系。这种跨学科的方法是新颖的，可以用来定义和量化物理和社会系统之间的关系，迄今为止只有轶事。社会科学和工程科学都将受益于对发展中国家经济部门发展和应用的假设的检验。这项研究将有助于发展有关个人、群体和组织行为的基本知识，以及它们如何在正式的系统背景下与物质基础设施相互作用。它还将为更现实的模型提供信息，以测试各种组织和业务做法。它将为今后研究这种规模的灾害奠定基础。这些数据将被放置在地震工程系统网络（NEES）的数据库中。通过这种方式，该项目将为NEES在海啸建模和损失估计方面的其他工作提供数据。这种研究所发挥的作用，物质和社会基础设施的相互依赖性将是相当有用的管理人员和政府官员在自然灾害机构，学者谁教这个材料的学生在应急管理课程。这场灾难的教训也将与美国有关，特别是在可能受到飓风、龙卷风、地震、火山活动和海啸等自然灾害影响的地区。特别是，它将直接观察自然灾害复原阶段有形基础设施和社会基础设施之间的相互关系。由于事件发生后的几周和几个月内，个体信息提供者的记忆福尔斯的准确性会迅速下降，因此在灾难的急性期后尽快收集这些信息至关重要。这项研究得到了人类和社会动力学（HSD）优先领域、国际科学与工程办公室（OISE）、地震工程模拟网络（NEES）。