SGER: Resiliency of Agricultural Communities after the 2008 Mississippi Floods

SGER：2008 年密西西比州洪水后农业社区的恢复能力

• 批准号: 0900891
• 负责人: Heather McIlvaine-Newsad
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Western Illinois University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-15 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0900891&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Resiliency; Agricultural; Communities; after

With the support of this Small Grant for Exploratory Research, Dr. Heather McIlvaine-Newsad and David G. Casagrande, both of Western Illinois University, will undertake research on community resilience after natural disaster. The researchers' goal is to quantitatively model resiliency of agricultural communities in western Illinois after flooding during summer of 2008 using the community as the unit of analysis. Resiliency is conceptualized as a dependent variable comprised of five social characteristics: 1) social equity as a function of income; 2) population change; 3) local school consolidation; 4) ability to buy food, hardware, and medical services locally; and 5) quality of life measured with a standard happiness index. Four independent variables that affect resiliency are: 1) knowledge of past disasters and responses; 2) amount of kin in social networks; 3) access to financial capital; and 4) whether cultural models of social responsibility are orientated primarily towards kin, community, or the nation. The researchers will conduct semi-structured interviews and focus groups with 60 families and community meetings. Transcriptions of these materials will be analyzed to determine how people talk and think about the focus variables. Results of the qualitative analysis will be used to develop a structured survey to be mailed to 2000 families in 20 different communities within one year after the floods. This research is important for its potential contribution to both disaster theory and to improved post-disaster interventions. Although the variables will differ, the methodology can be broadly applied to studies of disaster and resiliency. This research will benefit society at large by explicating a social science approach to resiliency that is compatible with ecological conceptualizations and policy considerations. It will be possible to integrate results directly into state recovery policy. Research findings also will be presented to participating communities in a series of informational meetings.

在这项探索性研究的小额资助的支持下，石楠麦克伊尔万-纽萨德博士和大卫G。西伊利诺伊大学的卡萨格兰德将对自然灾害后的社区复原力进行研究。研究人员的目标是定量模型的农业社区在2008年夏季洪水后，在伊利诺伊州西部的恢复能力，使用社区作为分析单位。弹性被概念化为由五个社会特征组成的因变量：1）作为收入函数的社会公平; 2）人口变化; 3）当地学校合并; 4）在当地购买食品，硬件和医疗服务的能力;以及5）用标准幸福指数衡量的生活质量。影响复原力的四个独立变量是：（1）对过去灾害和应对措施的了解;（2）社交网络中亲属的数量;（3）获得金融资本的机会;（4）社会责任的文化模式是否主要面向亲属、社区或国家。研究人员将对60个家庭和社区会议进行半结构化访谈和焦点小组。这些材料的透明度将被分析，以确定人们如何谈论和思考的焦点变量。定性分析的结果将用于制定一项结构化调查，在洪灾后一年内邮寄给20个不同社区的2 000个家庭。这项研究是重要的，因为它可能有助于灾害理论和改善灾后干预。虽然变量会有所不同，但该方法可广泛应用于灾害和复原力的研究。这项研究将有利于整个社会，阐明一个社会科学的方法，适应生态概念化和政策考虑。将有可能将结果直接纳入国家恢复政策。还将在一系列情况介绍会上向参与社区介绍研究结果。