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

RAPID：2013 年科罗拉多州洪水期间的紧急疏散和风险沟通

• 批准号: 1462808
• 负责人: Hao-Che Wu
• 金额: $ 2.12万
• 依托单位: Oklahoma State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-03 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1462808&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Emergency; Evacuations; Risk; Communication

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.

这项快速响应研究（快速）的目的是更好地了解家庭对美国山洪灾难的立即反应以及灾难响应数据的短暂待遇（撤离者的持久记忆）。传统上，科学家和急救人员使用100年的洪水图来证明发生了重大洪水。然而，公众对洪水的风险尚未很好地理解。此外，动员大型灾后调查所需的时间延迟了家庭收集数据，但人们对人们对他们直接影响前的信念和行动的回忆是否随着时间而发生变化而鲜为人知。这项研究将使用灵活的访谈方法和家庭调查来获取数据。研究人员将在科罗拉多州立大学（紧急经理访谈和家庭调查）进行现场工作。访谈将帮助研究人员验证调查工具，并评估紧急经理在洪水反应中的观点和经验。将通过一个随机过程来确定被洪水淹没地区的三千户家庭。这些家庭将在2014年3月和2014年9月收到2013年科罗拉多州的洪水反应调查。统计分析将用于分析调查数据。这项研究的研究人员希望找到可能影响警告信息内容的有用紧急信息；风险地区居民对灾难信息来源和洪水威胁的看法；以及警告收据和疏散响应的速度。此外，这项研究的结果还可以提供有关回忆灾难响应信息的经验证据。该项目的结果将使美国的紧急计划专业人员以及在全球范围内受益，以及在全球范围内通过提供重要的紧急响应理论测试，有关灾难响应方法的有价值的灾难响应方法的宝贵信息，以及为紧急管理人员提供贵重的实践信息。特别是，识别影响人们对洪水反应的因素将提高政府机构为公众提供有关如何保护自己及其家人的更多有用信息的能力。访谈和调查过程还将对研究人员及其研究助理的研究，教学和学习经验产生更大的影响。该项目将为SHSU的研究生助理提供参与数据收集，编码，分析和分析报告写作的机会。此外，现场工作期间建立的紧急经理联系将促进调查人员的未来合作和研究生的工作前景。