A Workshop on the Theory of Disaster Recovery

灾难恢复理论研讨会

• 批准号: 1049312
• 负责人: Claire Reiss
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Public Entity Risk Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1049312&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Theory; Disaster; Recovery

This is a project to hold a 2 ½ day workshop on the Theory of Disaster Recovery. A lot of research has been done on disaster recovery, however little has been done to pull together the research results into an overall theory that could help shape and prioritize future research and to help those who can use it in communities affected by disasters. The workshop will ask the leading researchers in disaster recovery to help shape such a theory and develop a five year research plan for further disaster recovery research.Recovery is the least understood aspect of emergency management. Researchers do not fully understand the roles of all the different types of organizations and interest groups that are involved in recovery. They also do not understand how these many different groups interact with each other or if the people that are more vulnerable (old, the infirm, minorities and the poor) can be properly taken care of by the government or the community. Most local governments also do not plan for disaster recovery and there is no state or federal government policy to help frame and to coordinate the disaster recovery process.Recovery is also not understood by the practitioners that work in all three levels of government. Hurricane Katrina illustrated how dangerous it is when we fail to understand the recovery needs of a community, a region, and a state. Although Katrina struck almost five years ago many communities still struggle with the hardships of rebuilding homes, businesses, and infrastructure, as well as a sense of community. Since Hurricane Katrina many scholars have started looking at disaster recovery again so that the knowledge of how communities can recover best can be improved. These same scholars also now need to look at the overall results of this latest research and to see if there are common themes and ideas that can be drawn from these research efforts. They will then be able to determine if there are gaps in the knowledge there is about recovery and determine what still remains to be done to understand it better. Finally, the workshop results will help those that work in local, state, and federal government improve their disaster recovery policies and improve the chances that another catastrophe like Katrina will never happen again.

这是一个关于灾难恢复理论的为期两天半的研讨会的项目。 关于灾难恢复已经做了很多研究，但是很少有人将研究结果整合到一个整体理论中，这个理论可以帮助塑造和优先考虑未来的研究，并帮助那些可以在受灾害影响的社区使用它的人。 研讨会将邀请灾难恢复领域的主要研究人员帮助形成这样一个理论，并为进一步的灾难恢复研究制定一个五年研究计划。 研究人员并不完全了解参与恢复的所有不同类型的组织和利益集团的作用。 他们也不了解这些不同的群体如何相互作用，也不了解政府或社区是否能适当地照顾那些更脆弱的人（老人、体弱者、少数民族和穷人）。 大多数地方政府也没有灾难恢复计划，也没有州或联邦政府的政策来帮助制定和协调灾难恢复过程。在所有三级政府工作的从业人员也不了解恢复。 卡特里娜飓风表明，当我们不了解一个社区、一个地区和一个州的恢复需求时，它是多么危险。 虽然卡特里娜飓风袭击了近五年前，许多社区仍然挣扎在重建家园，企业和基础设施，以及社区意识的困难。 自卡特里娜飓风以来，许多学者开始重新审视灾难恢复，以便提高社区如何最好地恢复的知识。 这些学者现在也需要看看这项最新研究的总体结果，看看是否有共同的主题和想法，可以从这些研究工作中得出。 然后，他们将能够确定在有关恢复的知识方面是否存在差距，并确定为更好地理解恢复仍需做些什么。 最后，研讨会的结果将帮助那些在地方、州和联邦政府工作的人改进他们的灾难恢复政策，并提高像卡特里娜飓风这样的灾难不再发生的机会。