RAPID: Reformulating Networks of Security, Sustainability, and Survival: the emergence of an Atlantic storm society

飓风多里安于2019年9月袭击了巴哈马北部，作为5级飓风，持续风速高达185英里/小时，阵风超过200英里/小时，长时间降雨，浪涌20英尺。这次风暴事件的后果继续在地理尺度上展开，涉及地方、国家、区域和国际社会网络。通过对飓风“多里安”的直接后果的研究，在响应网络仍在创建和重新制定的同时，有可能开始识别和描述一个沿海风暴社会的出现，这个社会能够应对经常性大风暴日益普遍的威胁。由于多里安的出现，这个重新规划的社会正在形成，它有可能在持续和长期的不确定性条件下重新规划重要的网络，从而提高社区的复原力。调查结果将分发给参与灾后恢复工作的援助组织。报告将为人道主义援助/灾害应对的从业者和研究人员提供一个模型，用于利用当地恢复力的更强大的评估工具。这项研究还通过国际合作建立科学研究能力，扩大代表性不足的群体在科学领域的参与，并培养本科生和研究生掌握严谨的科学数据收集和分析方法。这个RAPID奖项支持收集关键但短暂的数据，这些数据是在多里安飓风过后，在地方和区域尺度上形成的社会解体和凝聚力的新形式。在探索安全、治理和归属问题时，该项目询问了正在出现的新形式的社会凝聚力和基础设施，它们如何适应以及适应什么，以及哪些事件、过程和技术使这些网络成为可能或使其受挫。方法包括现场参与观察和针对流离失所居民和救援组织的半结构化访谈（n=300）。数据将与过去20多年来收集的关于该区域社会关系的研究进行比较，这将为了解正在变化和正在出现的社会形式和社会基础设施提供基线。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Hurricane Dorian hit the northern Bahamas in September 2019 as a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds up to 185 mph, gusts over 200 mph, prolonged rains, and 20-foot surge. The aftermath of this storm event continues to unfold across geographic scales involving local, national, regional, and international social networks. By examining the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, while networks of response are still being created and reformulated, it is possible to begin identifying and characterizing the emergence of a coastal storm society that is able to respond to the increasingly pervasive threat of recurrent major storms. This reformulated society that is taking shape as a result of Dorian has the potential to reformulate vital networks within persistent and chronic conditions of uncertainty, thereby increasing community resilience. Findings will be disseminated to aid organizations involved in disaster recovery efforts. Reports will offer practitioners and researchers of humanitarian aid/ disaster response a model for a more robust assessment tools that leverages local resilience. The research also builds scientific research capacity through international collaboration, broadens the participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences, and trains undergraduate and graduate students in methods of rigorous, scientific data collection and analysis.This RAPID award supports the collection of critical but ephemeral data on the new forms of social dissolution and cohesion formulated across local and regional scales in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. In exploring issues of security, governance,and belonging, the project asks what new forms of social cohesion and infrastructure are emerging, how and to what they are adapting, and what events, processes and technologies enable or frustrate these networks. Methods include on-site participant observation and targeted semi-structured interviews (n=300) with displaced residents and rescue organizations. Data will be compared with over 20 years of previously collected research on social relations in the region, which will provide a baseline in understanding shifting and emergent social forms and socio-infrastructures.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.