An Analysis of the Integration of Place Attachment into Visualizations of Hurricane Storm Surge Threats

将地点依恋整合到飓风风暴潮威胁可视化中的分析

• 批准号: 1853699
• 负责人: Olga Wilhelmi
• 金额: $ 39.96万
• 依托单位: University Corporation For Atmospheric Res
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2022-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1853699&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Analysis; Integration; Place; Attachment; into

This project investigates ways of reducing the devastating effects that hurricane related storm surges can have on the safety and well-being of communities. Reducing and managing risks from storm surge are challenging because of the complex nature of the hazard and the inherent uncertainty in storm surge forecasting. Weather forecasters and emergency managers often use maps and animations (visualizations) to communicate storm surge risks and threats to the public. However, little is known about how these visualizations influence people's understanding and response to risk. This project will contribute to research on visualizations and how well these work for the communication of hazardous weather risks. By focusing on attachment to place within the context of coastal communities, the investigators will improve understanding of how people interact with information about coastal hazards and what role visualizations play in understanding and decision-making. The investigators will engage with practitioners and stakeholders throughout the project, from the planning stages to dissemination of the research results, ensuring project relevancy and building strong societal benefit for the needs of affected communities. This project will support educational activities through interdisciplinary training of students and faculty at a variety of institutions including from minority serving colleges and universities. The project will contribute to broader efforts to increase public scientific literacy by focusing on the role of visualizations in communicating complex scientific concepts in a relatable and usable manner. This project will contribute to fundamental theoretical and methodological advances in geography, geospatial science, cartography, as well as decision, risk and management science and their intersection with communication of hazardous weather risks. The research will bridge the gap between how spatially explicit storm surge information is being conveyed by scientists and their interpretation and use by members of the public in at-risk coastal communities. The investigators will consider the role of concepts such as space and place in data representation and hypothesize that connecting people to place through theoretically and empirically informed visualizations will enhance at-risk populations' understandings of and responses to storm surge hazard threats. The project's research questions are: How do residents of coastal communities perceive a sense of place in their everyday lives and when hazardous storm surge threatens? How can sense of place constructs be integrated into visualization of storm surge threats? How do different ways of representing space and place in storm surge visualizations interact with people's understandings of and responses to the hazards? The investigators will use a multi-method interdisciplinary approach that employs an experimental participatory cognitive mapping process, research on and development of innovative storm surge visualizations, iterative focus groups on risk perception and the degree to which attachment to place factors in to decision-making, and an online survey to test the impact of different types of visualizations. Together this suite of methods will be able to inform how the visualizations, attachment to place, and other factors influence people's understandings of and responses to storm surge hazards. The research includes stakeholder engagement in coastal areas and experts from several related government agencies. Although the project focuses on coastal Georgia and South Carolina, the methods, technology, and visualization concepts will be relevant to other coastal communities in the U.S. vulnerable to hurricane storm surge. Furthermore, the theories and empirical findings will be relevant to non-coastal communities by understanding how attachment to place within visualizations can be used to improve communication of risk hazards and decision-making.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目研究如何减少与飓风有关的风暴潮对社区安全和福祉的破坏性影响。减少和管理风暴潮风险具有挑战性，因为灾害性质复杂，风暴潮预报存在固有的不确定性。天气预报员和应急管理人员经常使用地图和动画（可视化）向公众传达风暴潮风险和威胁。然而，人们对这些可视化如何影响人们对风险的理解和反应知之甚少。该项目将有助于研究可视化以及这些工作如何用于危险天气风险的沟通。 通过关注沿海社区背景下的地方依恋，调查人员将更好地了解人们如何与沿海灾害信息互动，以及可视化在理解和决策中发挥的作用。调查人员将在整个项目中与从业人员和利益相关者接触，从规划阶段到研究结果的传播，确保项目的相关性，并为受影响社区的需求建立强大的社会效益。该项目将通过对包括少数民族学院和大学在内的各种机构的学生和教员进行跨学科培训，支持教育活动。该项目将有助于更广泛地努力提高公众的科学素养，重点是可视化在以相关和可用的方式传达复杂的科学概念方面的作用。该项目将促进地理学、地理空间科学、制图学以及决策、风险和管理科学的基本理论和方法进步，并将其与灾害性天气风险的沟通联系起来。 这项研究将弥合科学家如何传达空间上明确的风暴潮信息与处于风险中的沿海社区的公众如何解释和使用这些信息之间的差距。研究人员将考虑空间和地点等概念在数据表示中的作用，并假设通过理论和经验上知情的可视化将人们与地点联系起来，将增强风险人群对风暴潮灾害威胁的理解和应对。 该项目的研究问题是：沿海社区的居民如何在日常生活中以及在危险的风暴潮威胁时感知到地方感？如何将位置感结构集成到风暴潮威胁的可视化中？在风暴潮可视化中表现空间和地点的不同方式如何与人们对灾害的理解和反应相互作用？研究人员将使用多方法跨学科的方法，采用实验性的参与性认知映射过程，研究和开发创新的风暴潮可视化，风险感知的迭代焦点小组以及将附件因素纳入决策的程度，以及在线调查来测试不同类型可视化的影响。 总之，这套方法将能够告知可视化，附件的地方，以及其他因素如何影响人们的理解和应对风暴潮灾害。 这项研究包括沿海地区的利益攸关方和来自几个相关政府机构的专家的参与。虽然该项目的重点是沿海的格鲁吉亚和南卡罗来纳州，方法，技术和可视化的概念将是相关的其他沿海社区在美国容易受到飓风风暴潮。此外，理论和实证研究结果将是相关的非沿海社区，通过了解如何附件内的可视化可以用来改善风险危害和决策的沟通。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。