RAPID/Collaborative Research: Disaster Migration and Civil Infrastructure: The Impacts of Sudden Population Influxes on Water and Sanitation Infrastructure

该快速反应研究 (RAPID) 资助项目将探讨由于人口突然大量涌入而造成的规范和文化认知扰动对水和卫生设施的影响。供水和污水处理基础设施对于城市环境的持续运转是必要的。该基础设施必须适应大量突然的人口涌入，以避免受影响人口遭受二次公共卫生灾难。这项研究将为那些为短暂的、有时是大量人口（特别是突然出现的人口）提供服务的公用事业公司创造有意义的知识。这些知识将有助于实现更具弹性的规划、政策和技术设计，从而根据需要适应潜在的灾难移民和其他极端人口增长。该项目将确定并探索公用事业组织结构和流程的变化，以应对欧洲难民的涌入，这引发了前所未有的难民涌入欧洲各国。这种情况提供了一个独特的机会来获取易腐烂的数据，了解灾难引发的人口突然增加可能对现有供水和卫生设施产生的制度影响。这项工作将为规范和文化/认知力量如何影响公共事业的形态和功能提供新的见解。将收集有关这些现象的人力和技术方面的数据，包括访谈、观察和视觉记录，其中包括德国慕尼黑、柏林和莱比锡等城市的供水和卫生设施的决策者。即使在正常条件下，也很难获得有关这些现象的数据。因此，需要立即集中精力收集本研究的组织数据，并将这些数据置于整体社会技术背景下。

This Rapid Response Research (RAPID) Grant project will explore the impact of normative and cultural-cognitive perturbations on water and sanitation utilities caused by sudden and large population influxes. Water and wastewater infrastructures are necessary for the continued functioning of urban environments. Large and sudden population influxes must be accommodated by this infrastructure in order to avoid secondary public health disasters for impacted populations. This research will create knowledge with implications for utilities that find themselves serving transient, sometimes large populations (particularly those which arise suddenly). This knowledge will enable more resilient planning, policy, and technical design that can accommodate potential disaster migration and other extreme population growth as required.This project will identify and explore changes in the organizational structure and processes of utilities in response to the European refugee influx, which has triggered an unprecedented flow of refugees to various European nations. This situation provides a unique opportunity to capture perishable data on the institutional impacts that sudden, disaster-triggered population increases may have on established water and sanitation utilities. This work will yield new insights into how normative and cultural/cognitive forces can influence the shape and function of public utilities. Data on both human and technological aspects of these phenomena will be collected, to include interviews, observations and visual documentation, to include decision makers in the water and sanitation utilities in the German cities of Munich, Berlin, and Leipzig. Even under normal conditions, data on these phenomena can be difficult to obtain. As such, immediate and focused efforts are needed to collect the organizational data for this study, and to situate these data within a holistic socio-technical context.