Collaborative Research: Response and Resilience Following Compound Extreme Events

气候变化的影响正变得越来越普遍、严重和复杂。多种气候灾害（干旱、洪水、极端高温）可能同时或相继发生，并与非气候因素（COVID-19大流行、土地管理立法）相互作用，加剧整体影响，导致社会生态系统脆弱性增加。虽然人们认识到复合灾害的潜在影响，但对经历这些灾害的社会如何应对和建设复原力却知之甚少。因此，本项目旨在了解牧区系统内对复合灾害的反应和影响。这种认识与适应气候变化以及努力减少灾害风险和建设抵御复合灾害的能力直接相关。在实现这些目标的过程中，该项目将培训学生，包括在一个少数民族服务机构培训学生，并在更广泛的意义上提高不应得的科学界的环境科学能力。提出的研究问题集中在（1）复合灾害对不同土地管理制度的畜牧系统的影响，（2）理解对复合灾害的客观和主观复原力，以及（3）对社会机构的影响，这些机构对社会的响应，科普和恢复能力至关重要。 访谈、调查和参与性研究方法将提供必要的数据，以了解家庭和社区对一个极端事件的反应如何影响其应对随后或同时发生的事件的能力。本研究报告的独特之处在于，它汇集了客观和主观的复原力衡量标准，以了解个人和社会应对复合灾害的能力，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过利用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查进行评估来支持的搜索.

Climate change impacts are becoming increasingly common, severe, and complex. Multiple climate disasters (droughts, floods, extreme heat) may occur simultaneously or in succession, and interact with non-climate factors (COVID-19 pandemic, land management legislation), compounding the overall impacts and leading to increased vulnerability of social-ecological systems. While the potential impact of compound disasters is recognized, little is known about how societies experiencing them respond and build resilience. Thus, this project aims to understand the response to and impact of compound disasters within pastoral systems. Such understanding is directly relevant to climate change adaptation and efforts to reduce disaster risk and build resilience in the face of compound disasters. In pursuing these aims, the project will train students, including at a minority serving institution, and more generally enhance the capacity for environmental science in undeserved scientific communities.This interdisciplinary project brings together senior and junior faculty, who have decades of experience working in pastoral contexts, to ask research questions focused on (1) the impacts of compound disasters on pastoral systems with different land management systems, (2) understanding objective and subjective resilience to compound disasters, and (3) the impacts on the social institutions that are critical to a society’s ability to respond, cope, and recover. Interviews, surveys, and participatory research approaches will provide the data needed to understand how responses of households and communities to one extreme event affects their ability to respond to subsequent or concurrent events. This study is unique in marshaling both objective and subjective measures of resilience in understanding the capacity of both individuals and societies to respond to compound disasters, thereby transforming the growing interdisciplinary study of resilience of those most affected by natural hazards.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.