RAPID: Mitigating Litigating: NSF RAPID Proposal to Study Social and Psychological Impacts of the 2012 BP Claims Settlement

RAPID：减轻诉讼：NSF RAPID 研究 2012 年 BP 索赔和解的社会和心理影响的提案

• 批准号: 1248118
• 负责人: Liesel Ritchie
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-02-15 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1248118&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Mitigating; Litigating; NSF; Proposal

This RAPID research will investigate the social and psychological effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Gulf communities. The research examines how settlement and litigation processes in the aftermath of technological disaster are influencing social and psychological recovery in coastal communities along the northern Gulf of Mexico. The Primary Investigator, Liesel Ritchie, is a leading expert on the social and psychological effects of technological disasters. She has done over two decades of research, starting with her seminal research on the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska, 1989. Building on an early Arctic Social Sciences RAPID award that supported the collection of data immediately following the BP spill, this RAPID will allow Ritchie and her team to gather date following the BP legal settlement and create a comparative data set with the post legal settlement data from the communities affected by the Exxon Valdez. The project responds to calls for research on community resilience to disasters by the National Research Council Committee on Disaster Research in the Social Sciences- the National Council on Science and Technology- and the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency. This research will advance knowledge regarding ways in which post-disaster processes such as litigation and the timely settlement of damage claims can facilitate or hinder community recovery. The research is responding directly to important federal issues on research on policy and practice for community disaster resilience. As pointed out by the applicant- this research is an explicit focus of the Presidents reorganization of the Homeland Security and National Security Councils and is a priority of the DHS Science and Technology Directorate. In addition, research results will be used to inform local- state- and federal initiatives with respect to community resilience to both technological and natural disasters.

这项快速研究将调查英国石油公司深水地平线漏油事件对海湾社区的社会和心理影响。这项研究考察了技术灾难后的和解和诉讼程序如何影响墨西哥湾北部沿海社区的社会和心理恢复。首席调查员利塞尔·里奇是技术灾难的社会和心理影响方面的主要专家。她已经做了20多年的研究，从1989年阿拉斯加埃克森·瓦尔迪兹事件的后果开始，她进行了开创性的研究。在早期北极社会科学快速奖的基础上，该奖项支持在英国石油公司漏油事件后立即收集数据，这一快速奖将使里奇和她的团队能够收集英国石油公司法律和解后的数据，并创建一个与受埃克森-瓦尔迪兹事件影响的社区的法律和解后数据进行比较的数据集。该项目响应了国家研究理事会社会科学灾害研究委员会--国家科学和技术理事会--和国土安全部/联邦紧急事务管理署对社区抗灾能力进行研究的呼吁。这项研究将增进对灾后进程的知识，例如诉讼和及时解决损害索赔可以促进或阻碍社区恢复。这项研究是对关于社区抗灾能力政策和实践研究的重要联邦问题的直接回应。如申请人所指出的--这项研究是总统改组国土安全委员会和国家安全委员会的明确重点，也是国土安全部科技局的优先事项。此外，研究成果将被用来为地方、州和联邦关于社区对技术和自然灾害的复原力的倡议提供信息。