SGER: Agency Within Disaster Preparedness and Response: The Role of Poverty and Disability

翻译后摘要：传统上，灾害研究假设，人们可以作出自己的决定，是否准备自然灾害或疏散时，警告说，灾难即将发生。决定的能力被称为能动性。该项目将有助于了解人们在其选择受到贫困限制时如何作出准备和疏散选择。传统上，我们假设那些没有做好准备的人是非理性的;这种假设延续了一种代理谬误，即假设人们有目的地做出决定，使他们或多或少地变得脆弱。当代理的概念从模型中被移除时，这个形象会发生什么变化？如果一些群体没有机构，无论是通过贫困，残疾，精神疾病或环境采取保护措施或选择疏散地点，应急管理如何应对？该项目的重点是收集从新奥尔良撤离的家庭的事件历史，目的是了解机构。我们的目标是迅速开始收集这些历史，以便尽可能准确地记忆，不仅是事件，而且是导致事件的时期。该项目预计将对灾害中的疏散建模产生重大影响，特别是在这些模型假设人们可能没有选择的情况下。一个多学科的团队将与研究生和本科生合作进行这项研究，从而在解决这个问题的同时吸引新的人和观点进入灾害研究

Abstract:Traditionally, disaster research has assumed that people can make their own decisions about whether to prepare for natural disasters or to evacuate when warned that a disaster is impending. The ability to decide is known as agency. This project will help to understand how people make preparedness and evacuation choices when their choices are constrained by poverty. Traditionally, we assume that those who fail to prepare are irrational; this assumption perpetuates a fallacy of agency, which assumes that people purposefully make decisions that make them more or less vulnerable. How does this image change when the idea of agency is removed from the model? If some groups have no agency whether through poverty, disability, mental illness or circumstance to take protective measures or choose evacuation locations, how can and should emergency management respond? The project focuses on collecting event histories from families evacuated from New Orleans with the goal of understanding agency. The goal is to quickly begin collecting these histories in order to have as accurate as possibly memories of not only the event, but also the period leading up to the event. The project is expected to have major implications in evacuation modeling in disasters, particularly where those models assume choices that people may not have. A multidisciplinary team will work with graduate and undergraduates to conduct this research, thereby drawing new people and perspectives into disaster research while addressing this question