SGER: Social Vulnerability and Urban Development Patterns: Impacts on Community Resilience and Recovery

这项探索性研究小额赠款（SGER）将研究城市发展模式和社会脆弱性对影响、错位、早期修复和重建决策的影响，这些决策对社区恢复力至关重要。社区对灾害造成的社会和物质影响的易感性是创建有复原力的社区的一个重要组成部分，这些社区能够对灾害事件作出有效反应，并在受灾后迅速恢复。建筑环境、自然环境和社会环境的特点可能会加剧或减轻这种脆弱性，阻碍或促进居民和企业的恢复能力。具体而言，研究小组将评估现有社会和自然发展模式对社区复原力和恢复的影响。数据收集和分析将由以下研究问题驱动：-现有的发展模式是减轻还是加剧了财产的损害和损失？-脆弱人口的空间分布是否减轻或加剧了财产损失？-社会脆弱性因素是促进还是阻碍有关拆迁和早期修复/重建决策的决策？收集的数据将建立在德克萨斯海岸现有的环境、管理和人口数据数据库上。具体来说，项目团队已经参与收集和分析整个德克萨斯海岸的发展、可持续性和弹性数据，这些数据已经很容易为当地社区规划未来的发展（见coastalatlas.tamug.edu）。因此，分析所得的结果将比单独拟议的数据收集所允许的更直接和更广泛。了解当前的发展和脆弱性模式如何减轻或加剧灾害造成的损害，对于使参与建筑和自然环境设计、监管和管理的当地社区和专业人员能够建设更具社会和物理弹性的社区至关重要。这些数据将作为进一步研究社区恢复的基线，为此将寻求额外的资金。掌握初步损害评估和有关破坏和修复/重建的早期决定的能力将为发展纵向数据库提供基础，该数据库将继续使人们更好地了解社区复原力与恢复之间的关系。关于错位和早期修复/重建决策的数据尤其短暂，这证明了探索性研究小额赠款的资助是合理的。

This Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) will examine the impact of urban development patterns and social vulnerability on impact, dislocation, and early repair and rebuilding decisions which are critical for community resilience. The susceptibility of a community to social and physical impacts from disasters is an important component of creating resilient communities that are able to respond effectively to hazard events and recover quickly after impact. Characteristics of the built, natural and social environment may exacerbate or mitigate such vulnerability and impede or facilitate the ability of residents and businesses to recover. Specifically, the research team will assess the impact of existing social and physical development patterns on community resilience and recovery. Data collection and analysis will be driven by the following research questions:- Did existing development patterns mitigate or exacerbate damage and loss to property?- Did the spatial distribution of vulnerable populations mitigate or exacerbate damage and loss to property?- Do social vulnerability factors facilitate or impede decision-making with regard to dislocation and early repair/rebuilding decisions?Data collected will build on existing databases of environmental, management, and demographic data of the Texas coast. Specifically, the project team has been involved in collecting and analyzing development, sustainability, and resiliency data for the entire Texas Coast and these data have been made easily available for local communities to plan future development (see coastalatlas.tamug.edu). Consequently, findings from the analysis will be both more immediate and more extensive than the proposed data collection alone would permit. Understanding how current development and vulnerability patterns mitigate or exacerbate damage from disasters is critical for enabling local communities and professionals involved in the design, regulation, and management of the built and natural environments to construct communities that are more socially and physically resilient.These data will serve a baseline for further study of community recovery, for which additional funding will be sought. The ability to capture initial damage assessments and early decisions related to dislocation and repair/rebuilding will provide the foundation for the development of a longitudinal database which will continue to generate a better understanding of the relationship between community resilience and recovery. The data regarding dislocation and early repair/rebuilding decisions are particularly ephemeral, justifying the funding under the Small Grants for Exploratory Research.