SGER: How Soon is Soon Enough? Understanding National Public Perceptions of the Need to Act on Very Long Term Threats as a Result of Hurricane Katrina

SGER：多久才算足够快？

• 批准号: 0553105
• 负责人: Jack Kartez
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: University of Southern Maine
• 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: 2005-10-01 至 2006-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0553105&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; How; Soon; Enough; Understanding

ABSTRACTMajor impacts like Katrina are windows of opportunity for public learning and action on long-term threats facing us, but how well do we know how people's heightened awareness persists or recedes? This short-term, exploratory investigation captures data on public attitudes toward, and personal adjustment action intentions in response to, long-term coastal hazards. The focus is on the influence of Katrina on public views about future hurricanes and the related but long term threats of global warming. The study focuses specifically on publics in six coastal cities not impacted by Katrina. It explores how attitudes and intentions of the respondents have developed soon after the current Gulf disaster, and months after the emergency/short-term recovery period is over. Data come from a total exploratory respondent group of 300 adults randomly sampled in equal proportions (50 from each city) who are surveyed at two points in time. The objectives are to: 1. understand how major hazard impacts influence public thinking about future threats, including more uncertain ones far in the future; 2. understand how personal actions to learn more about or adjust to such hazards develop dynamically over time and; 3. explore methods to understand public views on hazards more developmentally, beyond one-time snapshots of views. This study contributes to our understanding of how a centennial disaster of Katrina's scale affects public opinion toward and intentions to adjust to coastal hazards and related long-term global change threats. The underutilized methodology of longitudinal engagement of the public in such studies is explored. As such, this study can contribute to knowledge-based public deliberation about long-term hazards policy and also suggest methods to explore long-debated but infrequently tested issues about how to support large-scale public engagement in long-term hazards planning at a national level.

摘要像卡特里娜飓风这样的重大影响是公众了解我们面临的长期威胁并采取行动的机会之窗，但我们如何知道人们的高度认识如何持续或消退？这项短期的探索性调查收集了公众对长期沿海灾害的态度以及个人调整行动意图的数据。 重点是卡特里娜飓风对公众对未来飓风以及全球变暖相关但长期威胁的看法的影响。 该研究特别关注未受卡特里娜飓风影响的六个沿海城市的公众。它探讨了在当前海湾灾难发生后不久以及紧急/短期恢复期结束几个月后受访者的态度和意图如何发展。 数据来自于 300 名成年人的探索性受访者群体，这些成年人以等比例随机抽样（每个城市 50 人），并在两个时间点接受调查。目标是： 1. 了解重大灾害影响如何影响公众对未来威胁（包括遥远的未来更不确定的威胁）的看法； 2. 了解个人行动如何随着时间的推移动态发展，以便更多地了解或适应此类危险； 3. 探索以更发展的方式了解公众对危害的看法的方法，而不仅仅是一次性的观点快照。这项研究有助于我们了解卡特里娜飓风百年一遇的灾难如何影响公众对沿海灾害和相关长期全球变化威胁的舆论和调整意图。探讨了公众在此类研究中纵向参与的未充分利用的方法。 因此，这项研究可以有助于基于知识的公众对长期灾害政策的审议，并提出方法来探索长期争论但很少测试的问题，即如何支持大规模公众参与国家层面的长期灾害规划。