Long-term Disaster Recovery in Urban Communities

城市社区的长期灾难恢复

• 批准号: 397765781
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Gordon Winder
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehr- und Forschungseinheit Wirtschaftsgeographie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/397765781?language=en
• 关键词: Long; term; Disaster; Recovery; Urban

This project develops and applies a framework for assessing long-term disaster recovery as it is one of the least understood aspects of disasters research. This research focuses on housing recovery and the role of insurance in managing disaster recovery by comparing and contrasting long-term disaster recovery processes in three urban locations: Passau (Germany), New Orleans (USA) and Christchurch (New Zealand) following catastrophic events in 2002, 2005, and 2011 respectively. These cities represent rather different contexts for disaster recovery, not only because they faced different natural disasters, but because the institutions and resources for recovery, planning and development, as well as the distinctive role insurance played in the aftermath of each disaster differed. In each case, answers to the following research questions are sought: what is the state of long-term recovery from natural disasters in housing and infrastructure; and what role has insurance played in the recovery process? Within disasters research, recovery after disasters is becoming more prominently a focal area of research as the geography literature on disaster management embraces a resilience approach. The damaging impacts of natural disasters are often compounded by problems and failures in managing recovery after the event when damages impact costly infrastructure and built environments of urban societies. In these circumstances, the extent and nature of property damage combines with the specific pattern of economic and institutional resources available and the disaster recovery management applied to shape the long-term recovery process. It is important to develop systematic knowledge of recovery processes in urban communities for a better understanding of what constitutes a successful recovery, how long-term recovery functions, and how best to mitigate future disaster impacts. This project seeks these answers in order to address gaps in knowledge and understanding of urban recovery and to contribute to understanding of best practices in long-term disaster recovery.

该项目制定并应用了一个评估长期灾后恢复的框架，因为它是灾害研究中最不被理解的方面之一。这项研究的重点是住房恢复和保险在管理灾难恢复中的作用，通过比较和对比三个城市地点的长期灾难恢复过程：德国帕绍、美国新奥尔良和新西兰克赖斯特彻奇，分别在2002年、2005年和2011年发生灾难事件。这些城市代表着相当不同的灾后恢复环境，不仅是因为它们面临不同的自然灾害，而且因为用于恢复、规划和发展的机构和资源以及保险在每个灾难后发挥的独特作用也不同。在每一种情况下，都寻求以下研究问题的答案：住房和基础设施方面自然灾害的长期恢复情况如何；保险在恢复过程中发挥了什么作用？在灾害研究中，随着关于灾害管理的地理文献采用复原力方法，灾后恢复正成为研究的一个重点领域。自然灾害的破坏性影响往往因灾后恢复管理方面的问题和失败而雪上加霜，因为破坏影响到城市社会昂贵的基础设施和建成的环境。在这种情况下，财产损失的程度和性质与可利用的经济和体制资源的具体模式相结合，并采用灾后恢复管理来确定长期恢复进程。重要的是发展城市社区恢复进程的系统知识，以便更好地了解什么是成功的恢复、长期恢复如何发挥作用以及如何最好地减轻未来的灾害影响。该项目寻求这些答案，以弥补在城市恢复方面的知识和理解方面的差距，并促进对长期灾难恢复最佳做法的理解。