RAPID: Emergency Evacuations and Risk Communication During the 2013 Colorado Flood

本快速反应研究（RAPID）的目的是更好地了解美国家庭对山洪灾害的即时反应以及灾害响应数据的短暂方面（疏散人员的持久记忆）。科学家和应急管理人员传统上使用百年一遇洪水图来展示大洪水的发生;然而，公众对洪水风险并不了解。此外，为灾后大规模调查调集资源需要时间，这延误了从家庭收集数据的工作，但人们对受灾前的信念和行动的记忆是否会随着时间的推移而改变，人们对此知之甚少。本研究将采用灵活的访谈方法和入户调查来获取数据。研究人员将在科罗拉多州进行实地调查（紧急情况经理访谈和家庭调查）。访谈将帮助研究人员验证调查工具，并评估应急管理人员在洪水响应中的观点和经验。将通过随机程序确定洪水地区的3000户家庭。这些家庭将在2014年3月和9月期间接受2013年科罗拉多洪水应对调查。统计分析将用于分析调查数据。本研究的研究人员希望找到有用的应急信息，这些信息可能会影响预警信息的内容;风险地区居民对灾害信息源和洪水威胁的感知;以及预警接收和疏散响应的速度。此外，本研究的结果也可为灾害应变信息的回忆提供实证依据，本研究的结果将为美国乃至世界的应急规划专业人员提供重要的应急响应理论检验、为灾害研究人员提供有价值的灾害应变信息回忆方法信息、为应急管理人员提供有价值的实践信息。特别是，查明影响人们对洪水作出反应的因素，将提高政府机构的能力，使其能够向公众提供更多关于如何保护自己及其家人的有用信息。访谈和调查过程也将对调查人员及其研究助理的研究、教学和学习经验产生更广泛的影响。该项目将为SHSU的研究生助理提供参与数据收集，编码，分析和分析报告撰写的机会。此外，在现场工作期间进行的应急管理联系将促进调查人员未来的合作和研究生的就业前景。

The purposes of this Rapid Response Research (RAPID) are to better understand households' immediate response to a flash flood disaster in the U.S. and the short-lived aspects of disaster response data (evacuees' lasting memory). Scientists and emergency managers traditionally have used 100-year flood maps to demonstrate the occurrence of a major flood; nevertheless, flood risk is not well understood by the general public. In addition, the time required to mobilize the resources for a major post-disaster survey delays the collection of data from households but little is known about whether people's recollections of their immediate pre-impact beliefs and actions change over time. This study will use a flexible interview method and household surveys to acquire the data. The researchers will conduct field work at Colorado State (emergency manager interviews and household surveys). The interviews will help the researchers to validate the survey instruments and assess emergency managers' perspectives and experiences in the flood response. Three thousand households in the flooded areas will be identified through a random process. These households will receive the 2013 Colorado Flood response surveys during March and September 2014. Statistical analyses will be used to analyze the survey data. The researchers in this study expect to find useful emergency information that could affect the content of warning messages; risk area residents' perceptions of disaster information source and flood threat; and the speed of warning receipt and evacuation response. In addition, the result of this study can also provide empirical evidence on the recall of disaster response information.The results of this project will benefit emergency planning professionals in the United States, as well as throughout the world by providing important tests of emergency response theories, valuable information on methods of disaster response recall information for disaster researchers, and valuable practical information for emergency managers. In particular, identification of factors that affect people's responses to floods will improve the ability of government agencies to provide the general public with more useful information about how to protect themselves and their families. The interview and survey processes will also have broader impacts on the investigators' and their research assistants' research, teaching, and learning experiences. This project will provide graduate assistants at SHSU an opportunity to participate in data collection, coding, analysis, and analytical report writing. Furthermore, the emergency manager contacts made during the field work will catalyze the investigators' future collaborations and graduate students' job prospects.