RAPID: Collaborative Research: Local Government Response to COVID-19: Juneau, Alaska, a case study in adaptive governance, risk management, communication, and decision-making

RAPID：协作研究：地方政府对 COVID-19 的响应：阿拉斯加朱诺，适应性治理、风险管理、沟通和决策的案例研究

• 批准号: 2029009
• 负责人: Charles Topkok
• 金额: $ 4.3万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-15 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2029009&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Collaborative; Research; Local; Government

In anticipating the spread of COVID-19 in Alaska, local communities are assessing their response capacity in terms of emergency medical facilities, policymaking, and preventative cultural practices. Subarctic and Arctic local governments are overwhelmed with the need to provide information about the risks presented by the virus to a broad area. This project focuses on the coastal community of Juneau, Alaska (pop. 32,061) as a use case for examining formal and informal institutional responses and adaptive capacity in facing an unprecedented viral outbreak in isolated areas with limited resources. The project team examines how decisionmakers interact with various social groups, including Indigenous communities, and how they made use of local knowledge in a variety of communication strategies. This research tracks responses in real time and identifies areas where they were effective and where bottlenecks occurred that prevented effective coordination. The results identify lessons learned during the pandemic and provide guidance on how official and societal groups can better collaborate in future crises.This study makes several fundamental scientific contributions with broad impacts for disaster response in small communities. First, the project delivers a case study of a disaster response in a remote, isolated Alaskan community with limited infrastructure and capacity. Second, this study tests, in real time, current knowledge on crisis responses, helping us identify weaknesses in existing theories of adaptive governance, resilience, local self-organization, and disaster communication. Finally, drawing on the findings of the study make it possible to provide a model of effective crisis response for similarly situated isolated communities. The results have implications for other northern communities as well as other isolated, remote areas of the country.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.

在预测COVID-19在阿拉斯加的传播时，当地社区正在评估他们在紧急医疗设施、政策制定和预防性文化实践方面的应对能力。亚北极和北极地区的地方政府不堪重负，需要向广大地区提供有关病毒风险的信息。该项目的重点是阿拉斯加州朱诺（人口32，061）的沿海社区，作为一个用例，用于检查正式和非正式的机构应对措施和适应能力，以应对资源有限的孤立地区前所未有的病毒爆发。项目小组研究了决策者如何与包括土著社区在内的各种社会群体互动，以及他们如何在各种传播战略中利用当地知识。这项研究跟踪真实的时间的反应，并确定他们是有效的，并在那里发生的瓶颈，阻碍了有效的协调。研究结果确定了在大流行期间吸取的经验教训，并为官方和社会团体如何在未来的危机中更好地合作提供了指导。首先，该项目提供了一个案例研究，在一个偏远的，孤立的阿拉斯加社区的基础设施和能力有限的灾害响应。其次，这项研究测试，在真实的时间，当前的危机应对知识，帮助我们找出现有的适应性治理，复原力，地方自组织和灾害沟通理论的弱点。最后，利用研究结果，有可能为类似情况的孤立社区提供一个有效的危机应对模式。该奖项反映了NSF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。