Comparative Analysis of Community Disaster Recovery

这个项目的重点是从1989年10月17日洛马普列塔地震中吸取的教训。该项目是对南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿县和加利福尼亚州圣克鲁斯县的灾害影响和初步社区恢复活动进行为期一年的比较研究。这两个人口规模大致相当的县，最近都遭受了两次重大自然灾害的严重破坏，即飓风雨果（查尔斯顿）和洛玛普里塔地震（圣克鲁斯）。这项研究的目的是：(1)记录两个社区的灾害影响和早期恢复问题和活动；(2)制定一套可用于灾后恢复的社会经济指标，并开始收集这些指标的数据；(3)对影响恢复期结果的因素进行比较分析并提出假设。该研究的数据将来自档案、文件、社区统计和其他记录，以及对两个社区主要组织代表的深入访谈。

This project focuses upon lessons that can be learned from the Loma Prieta Earthquake of October 17, 1989. The project is a one-year comparative study of disaster impacts and initial community recovery activities in Charleston County, South Carolina and Santa Cruz County, California. These two counties, which are roughly comparable in population size, both recently sustained extensive damage in two major natural disasters, Hurricane Hugo (Charleston) and the Loma Prieta earthquake (Santa Cruz). The objectives of the study are to (1) document disaster impacts and early recovery issues and activities in the two communities; (2) develop a set of socio-economic indicators that can be used to chart disaster recovery, and begin collecting data on those indicators; and (3) conduct comparative analyses and develop hypotheses concerning factors that explain outcomes in the recovery period. Data for the study will come from archives, documents, community statistics, and other records, as well as from in- depth interviews with representatives of key organizations in both communities.