Project 2: Community Based Assessment of Social Vulnerability and Resiliency

项目 2：基于社区的社会脆弱性和复原力评估

• 批准号: 8378966
• 负责人: Brian Mayer
• 金额: $ 26.12万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-01 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8378966
• 关键词: Advocacy; Affect; Chronic; Communication; Communities; Community Health; Community Practice; Community Psychology; Community Surveys; Disasters; Economics; Event; Financial compensation; Florida; Focus Groups; Future; Health; Human; Individual; Information Protection; Instruction; Interview; Knowledge; Literature; Litigation; Measures; Monitor; Natural Disasters; Oils; Play; Policies; Policy Maker; Predisposition; Preparation; Process; Public Health; Readiness; Recommendation; Recovery; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Technics; Resources; Risk; Risk Factors; Role; Social Environment; Social Network; Sociology; Stress; System; Testing; Trauma; Trust; Universities; base; community based participatory research; community organizations; coping; gulf coast; hazard; improved; informant; population health; resilience; response; social; social attachment; stressor

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): This proposal seeks to advance the current literature on community vulnerability and resiliency by utilizing community based participatoty research to qualitatively assess and improve upon indicators of social vulnerability and resiliency to technological disasters and identify successful strategies for resiliency in resource dependent communities along the Gulf Coast. In partnership with community organizations representing advocacy groups currently involved in the recovery process following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, investigators from the University of Florida will conduct key informant interviews, focus groups, and community surveys to identify critical points of vulnerability and resiliency. Though partnerships with local partners, the community-based research process will build organizational capacity to better understand and monitor these critical points of vulnerability and resiliency in preparation for future disasters. In building organizational capacity, this project aims to improve population health by improving local civic and nonprofit capacity for disaster preparedness and recovery. Four communities represented by local grassroots organizations will participate in this project and the identification and comparison of their strategies for recovery will be used to develop a set of 'best practices' for communities to implement in preparation for future disasters. The specific aims of the project are to: 1) Assess social vulnerability and community resiliency in each of the four partner communities utilizing established measures from the community psychology, sociology, and disaster preparedness literatures; 2) Employ participatoty research techniques to evaluate established measures of vulnerability and resilience and develop culturally-specific alternative indicators through community-based assessments; 3) Characterize the social networks at the community and regional levels through which crisis and risk communication flows to improve how critical information for the protection of human health during a disaster and subsequent recovery periods is interpreted and shared; and 4) Identify alternatives to participation in litigation as means of recovery for individuals and communities to develop recommendations for policy-makers in preparation of future disasters.

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