CAREER: Investigating Iterative Interrelations in Socio-Environmental Processes to Improve Climate Change Attribution Research

该学院早期职业发展（Career）项目支持通过统一公共政策、居民感知和行动以及社会人口统计学的迭代相互关系框架，将社会科学观点整合到气候变化导致的风暴研究中。气候变化归因评估了人为气候变化是否以及在多大程度上加剧了极端天气事件。虽然这一新兴研究在物理科学领域取得了重要的、引人注目的进展，但它与社会科学的结合应用却很少。例如，系统地测量洪水对人类和建筑环境的影响，不仅可以计算气候变化已经对我们社会造成的损失，还可以计算这些影响中的不平等。因此，这些新知识将用于为扭转这一趋势的政策提供信息。这个CAREER项目包括旨在形成一个概念和理论框架的研究，该框架基于气候灾害之前和之后发生的反复和相互关联的社会环境过程。正在研究的三个关键过程涉及：(1)公共政策，(2)居民的看法和行动，以及(3)基于地方的社会人口变化。该项目利用跨学科、纵向和混合方法数据来揭示路易斯安那州南部的这些过程。研究活动与高中、本科生和研究生的教育计划相结合，以培养从事气候变化归因研究的下一代科学家和工程师。该项目由人类、灾害和建筑环境（HDBE）和促进竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助。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。

This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project supports research on integrating social science perspectives into the study of climate change-attributed storms through an iterative interrelationships framework unifying public policies, resident perceptions and actions, and socio-demographics. Climate change attribution estimates if and to what extent anthropogenic climate change plays a role in supercharging extreme weather events. While this emergent research has made important, headline-grabbing advances in physical sciences, it is minimally applied in conjunction with social sciences. Systematically measuring the impacts of flooding to humans and the built environment, as an example, enables the accounting of not only the toll that climate change is already taking on our society but also the inequalities in those impacts. Consequently, this new knowledge will be used to inform policies to reverse the trend.This CAREER project includes research that intends to form a conceptual and theoretical framework based on iterative and interrelated socio-environmental processes that occur long before and cascade after climatic disasters. Three pivotal processes being examined pertain to: (1) public policy, (2) resident perceptions and actions, and (3) place-based socio-demographic change. The project takes advantage of transdisciplinary, longitudinal, and mixed methodological data to uncover these processes in south Louisiana. REsearch activities are coupled with an education plan with high school, undergraduate, and graduate students to train the next generation of scientist and engineers working in climate change attribution. This project is jointly funded by Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (HDBE), and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.