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.

像卡特里娜飓风这样的重大影响是公众学习和采取行动应对我们面临的长期威胁的机会之窗，但我们对人们提高的意识是如何持续或消退的了解有多好？这种短期的，探索性的调查捕捉公众的态度，个人调整行动的意图，长期的沿海灾害的数据。 重点是卡特里娜飓风对公众对未来飓风和相关但长期的全球变暖威胁的看法的影响。 这项研究特别关注没有受到卡特里娜飓风影响的六个沿海城市的公众。它探讨了在当前的海湾灾难发生后不久，以及在紧急/短期恢复期结束后数月，受访者的态度和意图是如何发展的。 数据来自一个总的探索性的受访者组的300名成年人随机抽样在相同的比例（50个来自每个城市），在两个时间点进行调查。目标是：1.了解重大灾害影响如何影响公众对未来威胁的思考，包括未来更不确定的威胁; 2.了解个人如何采取行动，以了解更多关于或适应这些危险随着时间的推移动态发展; 3.探索各种方法，以更好地了解公众对危害的看法，而不仅仅是一次性的看法快照。这项研究有助于我们了解卡特里娜飓风百年灾难如何影响公众舆论和意图，以适应沿海灾害和相关的长期全球变化威胁。未充分利用的方法，在这样的研究公众的纵向参与进行了探讨。 因此，这项研究可以有助于以知识为基础的公众审议长期的危害政策，并提出方法，探讨长期争论，但很少测试的问题，如何支持大规模的公众参与在国家一级的长期危害规划。