Collaborative Research: Place Attachment in Mitigation and Recovery: A Mixed Methods Study of Residential Adjustment Following Wildfires

合作研究：将依恋置于缓解和恢复中：野火后住宅调整的混合方法研究

• 批准号: 2135440
• 负责人: Ronald Schumann
• 金额: $ 7.71万
• 依托单位: University of North Texas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2135440&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Place; Attachment; Mitigation

After a major disaster, such as a wildfire, affected homeowners must make a difficult decision: do they rebuild their home as it was before the disaster, rebuild but in a way that better protects them from future disasters, or relocate to a new home elsewhere? These are complicated decisions that impact homeowners and communities for many years. Such decisions are influenced by many factors, including household income, access to insurance, location of employment, the need for local services such as medical care or schools, and connections to family and friends. One underlying factor that affects all these others is place attachment, or the emotional and functional ties that people have to the place where they live. This study focuses on understanding how place attachment influences the decisions people make after disasters, specifically decisions about where they live and whether they invest in measures that reduce their risk to future disasters. Focused on three California counties that have been affected by recent, major wildfires, findings from this study will help local governments and practitioners develop programs that better support households that are affected by disasters and inform community planning for hazards associated with climate change.This study investigates the role of place attachment in residential adjustment after wildfires. Households affected by wildfires face a critical decision point: do they rebuild in the same way, rebuild with new mitigation efforts, or relocate? Relatively few studies have examined the factors that influence these residential decision-making processes, particularly the role of intangible factors like place attachment. This study addresses these critical gaps in our understanding, with the goals of: (1) investigating residential adjustment among homeowners affected by recent California wildfires, (2) examining the role of place attachment in post-disaster residential adjustment, and (3) assessing the extent to which current place attachment measures capture the observed dynamics of place attachment in disaster contexts. Using three California counties as study sites, and building on a pilot study in these same, fire-affected communities, the research team will use photovoice method and phenomenological analyses to develop a deep, contextually grounded understanding of the role of place attachment in residential decisions. Additionally, the team will use qualitative comparative analysis to examine commonalities in household adjustment pathways after disaster. Study findings will advance both the theoretical and practical understanding of place attachment in mitigation and recovery. Given that place attachment is a foundational construct tied to many other aspects of recovery decision-making, this will be a critical contribution for US communities given the increasing losses to wildfire and other climate-induced disasters. Furthermore, study findings will contribute meaningfully to housing recovery policy, adaptation policy, and recovery and relocation practice.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.

在发生重大灾难(如野火)后，受影响的房主必须做出一个艰难的决定：他们是像灾难发生前那样重建家园，还是以更好地保护自己免受未来灾难影响的方式重建家园，还是重新安置到其他地方？这些都是影响房主和社区多年的复杂决定。这些决定受到许多因素的影响，包括家庭收入、获得保险的机会、就业地点、对当地服务的需求，如医疗保健或学校，以及与家人和朋友的联系。影响所有其他因素的一个潜在因素是地点依恋，即人们与他们居住的地方之间的情感和功能联系。这项研究的重点是了解地点依恋如何影响人们在灾难后做出的决定，特别是关于他们住在哪里的决定，以及他们是否投资于降低未来灾难风险的措施。这项研究聚焦于最近受到重大野火影响的加州三个县，研究结果将帮助地方政府和从业者制定计划，更好地支持受灾害影响的家庭，并为社区规划与气候变化相关的危险提供信息。本研究调查了地点依恋在野火后住宅调整中的作用。受野火影响的家庭面临一个关键的决策点：他们是以同样的方式重建，还是通过新的缓解措施重建，还是重新安置？相对较少的研究考察了影响这些居住决策过程的因素，特别是地点依恋等无形因素的作用。这项研究解决了我们在理解上的这些关键差距，目标是：(1)调查受最近加州野火影响的房主的住宅调整；(2)考察地点依恋在灾后住宅调整中的作用；以及(3)评估当前地点依恋措施在多大程度上捕捉到灾难背景下观察到的地点依恋的动态。以加利福尼亚州的三个县作为研究地点，在这些同样受到火灾影响的社区进行试点研究的基础上，研究团队将使用PhotoVoice方法和现象学分析来发展对场所依恋在居住决策中的作用的深入、有背景的理解。此外，该小组将使用定性比较分析来检查灾后家庭适应途径的共性。研究结果将促进对位置依恋在缓解和恢复中的理论和实践的理解。鉴于地点依恋是与恢复决策的许多其他方面捆绑在一起的基础结构，鉴于野火和其他气候引发的灾难造成的损失不断增加，这将对美国社区做出关键贡献。此外，研究结果将对住房恢复政策、适应政策以及恢复和重新安置实践做出有意义的贡献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。