RAPID: Immediate Behavioral Response to Flash-Floods in Uttarakhand, North India

RAPID：对印度北部北阿坎德邦山洪暴发的立即行为反应

• 批准号: 1361323
• 负责人: Sudha Arlikatti
• 金额: $ 3.99万
• 依托单位: University of North Texas
• 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: 2013-12-01 至 2015-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1361323&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Immediate; Behavioral; Response; Flash

The objective of this Rapid Response Research (RAPID) proposal is to better understand people's immediate response to the June 16th - 17th, 2013 flash floods in the hilly state of Uttarakhand in North India. This event has claimed over 1,000 lives with over 5,700 still reported missing and presumed dead as of early August. Data will be collected through field observations and semi-structured interviews of over 300 flash flood survivors from six affected villages. The interviews with survivors will examine their traditional knowledge about floods and landslides and actions they take, their understanding of how the environment changes, number of floods they have experienced, their sources of warning, the actions they took prior to evacuating, their emotional state at the time of the flash floods, and their responses related to protecting themselves, their family and friends. The project activities will advance the state of knowledge about people's response to flash floods and provide a foundation for cross-cultural comparisons of flash flood response. This will be extremely significant because there are few studies of flood response and virtually none on flash flood response in developing countries. Adopting questionnaire items from previous surveys used will provide a basis for comparing responses to the Uttarakhand flash floods with responses to other rapid-onset hazards (the Mt. St. Helens mudflows, the Christchurch and Hitachi earthquakes, and the American Samoa earthquake and tsunami). University contacts made in India during the data collection stage will be of value in catalyzing future collaborations for faculty and student exchanges and research endeavors between UNT and Delhi University. The project activities will advance teaching, training, and learning in the US as the project findings will be incorporated into course modules by the PI. Lectures and exercises will be developed in undergraduate and graduate classes such as Special Populations, Sustainability and Emergency Management, Foundations of Emergency Management, Disaster Response Planning and Disaster Research Methods, reflecting the findings and challenges of disaster management in a developing country. This study will also provide field research and data collection experience to five Indian graduate students and data coding, analysis, and publication experience to a doctoral student at UNT.

这项快速响应研究（快速）提案的目的是更好地了解人们对2013年6月16日至17日在印度北部北阿坎德邦的山地洪水的直接反应。这项活动已宣布1000多人的生命，有超过5700人据报道失踪，并假定截至8月初死亡。数据将通过现场观察和来自六个受影响村庄的300多名山洪幸存者的半结构化访谈收集。与幸存者的访谈将研究他们对他们采取的洪水，滑坡和行动的传统知识，对环境的理解，他们所经历的洪水的数量，警告的源头，警告的源头，他们在洪水洪水泛滥之前采取的行动，以及他们的情绪状态以及与保护自己，家人，家人和朋友有关的反应。项目活动将提高人们对人们对山洪泛滥的反应的了解，并为跨文化比较的山洪反应提供基础。这将是非常重要的，因为很少有关于洪水反应的研究，而发展中国家的山洪响应几乎没有。采用以前使用的调查中的问卷项目将为将北方邦山洪洪水的反应与对其他快速发作危害的反应进行比较（圣海伦斯山泥泞，基督城和日立地震，以及美国萨摩亚地震和Tsunami）的基础。在数据收集阶段，印度建立的大学联系将在催化未来的教职员工和学生交流以及德里大学之间的研究努力方面具有价值。项目活动将在美国进行教学，培训和学习，因为PI将将项目发现纳入课程模块中。讲座和练习将在本科和研究生阶级中开发，例如特殊人群，可持续性和紧急管理，紧急管理基础，灾难响应计划和灾难研究方法，反映了发展中国家灾难管理的发现和挑战。这项研究还将为五位印度研究生提供现场研究和数据收集经验，并向UNT的博士生提供数据编码，分析和出版经验。