The Contribution of Social Capital and Social Organization to Disaster Recovery

社会资本和社会组织对灾后恢复的贡献

• 批准号: 0753742
• 负责人: Frederick Weil
• 金额: $ 21.02万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0753742&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Contribution; Social; Capital; Organization; Disaster

PI and Co-PI: Frederick D. Weil, PI, and Troy Blanchard, Co-PI, Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.Title: The Contribution of Social Capital and Social Organization to Disaster Recovery.0753742AbstractNew Orleans' recovery from Hurricane Katrina has been an enormous task. Money from government, insurance, and business sources has often been slow in arriving or inadequate to the needs. For many people, the nonprofit sector, especially faith-based and community organizations, and informal social networks have contributed as much or more to their well-being and ability to return and rebuild as have material resources. Building on intellectual traditions that go back to Tocqueville's descriptions of democracy and community, this research draws on recent work on social capital and civic participation to explain how different communities have attempted to recover. The researchers will conduct surveys of Greater New Orleans residents who have, or have not, returned. The surveys will use standard telephone, door-to-door methods, and other methods. The goal is to assess which factors do most to encourage return and rebuilding, help people to cope with stress, and develop community resilience. In particular, the investigators (a) assess the physical damage and recovery of respondents' residences and surrounding neighborhoods, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and (b) survey leaders of the organizations to which respondents belong, asking about their strategies for recovery. By combining these data with our social surveys, the investigators attempt to assess the relative success of different recovery strategies by relating them directly to outcomes in their corresponding communities. The analyses contribute to the theoretical and empirical literature on social capital, social organization, civic engagement, civil society, the role of the nonprofit sector, community studies, and disaster recovery and resilience, as well as make methodological contributions in the areas of innovations in data collection, multi-level and geospatial-social modeling and analysis, and scientific-community interaction and partnership.

路易斯安那州立大学社会学系，路易斯安那州立大学，巴吞鲁日，洛杉矶巴吞鲁日。标题：社会资本和社会组织对灾难恢复的贡献。新奥尔良从卡特里娜飓风中恢复是一项艰巨的任务。来自政府、保险和商业来源的资金往往来得很慢，或者不能满足需求。对许多人来说，非营利部门，特别是宗教组织和社区组织，以及非正式社会网络对他们的福祉以及返回和重建的能力的贡献与物质资源一样多或更多。这项研究建立在托克维尔对民主和社区的描述的知识传统的基础上，借鉴了最近关于社会资本和公民参与的研究，以解释不同的社区是如何试图恢复的。研究人员将对已返回或尚未返回的大新奥尔良居民进行调查。调查将使用标准的电话、上门和其他方法。目标是评估哪些因素对鼓励回返和重建起到最大作用，帮助人们应对压力，并发展社区复原力。特别是，调查人员(A)利用地理信息系统(地理信息系统)评估被调查者住宅和周围社区的有形损坏和恢复情况，(B)调查被调查者所属组织的领导人，询问他们的恢复战略。通过将这些数据与我们的社会调查相结合，调查人员试图通过将不同恢复战略与其相应社区的结果直接联系起来，评估不同恢复战略的相对成功。这些分析有助于编写关于社会资本、社会组织、公民参与、民间社会、非营利部门的作用、社区研究和灾后恢复和复原力的理论和经验文献，并在数据收集、多层次和地理空间--社会建模和分析以及科学--社区互动和伙伴关系的创新领域作出方法论贡献。