RAPID: Differentiated Household Recovery Post-Hurricane Harvey

RAPID：飓风“哈维”后的差异化家庭恢复

• 批准号: 1760699
• 负责人: Sheryl McCurdy
• 金额: $ 7.08万
• 依托单位: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-10-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1760699&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Differentiated; Household; Recovery; Post

This qualitative research project will be conducted among Hurricane Harvey repeat and first-time evacuees who are relocated in the Houston area. The goal is to capture people's early reactions, feelings, observations, and household negotiations as they plan how to move forward. The researchers particularly want to understand how past experiences with floods and hurricanes affect current planning and decision-making. The researchers anticipate that Houstonian household responses to their third flood in three years is changed by that previous experience of flooding and by memories of past hurricanes, including Ike (2008), Rita (2005), and Tropical Storm Allison (2001). Harvey was not just a catastrophic event, it was the cap on a cumulative 17 year series of flood and hurricane incidents. The researchers are particularly interested in the question of whether flood-fatigued households will have less conflict over decisions to stay or leave than do households without prior flood experience. Findings from this research will be used to develop appropriate primary and secondary interventions to improve the provision of relief and support services in future disasters. Findings also will help improve understanding of how people adjust their assessments over time, which will enable policy makers to create appropriate interventions to help households deal with repeat disasters.Data collection for this study will consist of digitally-recorded face-to-face in-depth audio interviews, field notes, and archival sources (newspaper reports, internet sites dedicated to Hurricane Harvey evacuees, government and NGO reports). A stratified sample of 80 men and women from 40 households that represent with different backgrounds and circumstances will be recruited to participate in this study. Half of the sample will be from a neighborhood that has not been flooded in recent memory, and half of the sample will from a separate neighborhood that that has been flooded many times. Ten key informant stakeholders, affiliated with Houston government agencies, non-profit groups, and religious organizations, will also be interviewed. The audio-taped interviews will be transcribed and the digital files, along with the field notes and relevant archival documents, will be coded for themes and emergent ideas that will be followed up on in later interviews. The expected outcomes of this research project are: 1) insights into the types of interventions and policies that will help post-disaster households remain viable; and, 2) improved social science theory about factors that produce effective household risk assessment, coping, and survival strategies after repeated and cumulative disaster experiences.

该定性研究项目将在飓风哈维重演和重新安置在休斯顿地区的首次撤离人员中进行。目标是捕捉人们在计划如何前进时的早期反应、感受、观察和家庭谈判。研究人员特别想了解过去的洪水和飓风经历如何影响当前的规划和决策。研究人员预计，休斯敦家庭对三年内第三次洪水的反应会因之前的洪水经历和对过去飓风的记忆而改变，包括艾克（Ike，2008）、丽塔（Rita，2005）和热带风暴艾利森（Allison，2001）。哈维不仅仅是一场灾难性事件，它还是长达 17 年的一系列洪水和飓风事件的顶峰。研究人员特别感兴趣的问题是，与没有经历过洪水的家庭相比，遭受洪水疲劳的家庭在留下或离开的决定上是否会产生更少的冲突。这项研究的结果将用于制定适当的初级和二级干预措施，以改善未来灾害中救援和支持服务的提供。研究结果还将有助于加深对人们如何随着时间的推移调整评估的了解，这将使政策制定者能够制定适当的干预措施，帮助家庭应对重复发生的灾难。本研究的数据收集将包括数字化录制的面对面深入音频采访、现场记录和档案来源（报纸报道、专门针对飓风哈维撤离人员的互联网网站、政府和非政府组织报告）。来自 40 个家庭的 80 名男性和女性代表不同背景和情况的分层样本将被招募来参与这项研究。一半样本将来自最近记忆中未曾被洪水淹没的社区，一半样本将来自已被洪水多次淹没的单独社区。隶属于休斯顿政府机构、非营利组织和宗教组织的十个关键知情人利益相关者也将接受采访。录音采访将被转录，数字文件以及现场笔记和相关档案文件将针对主题和新想法进行编码，以便在以后的采访中跟进。该研究项目的预期成果是：1）深入了解有助于灾后家庭维持生存的干预措施和政策类型； 2) 改进关于在重复和累积灾难经历后产生有效家庭风险评估、应对和生存策略的因素的社会科学理论。