Public Involvement in Planning and Local Government Committment to Hazard Mitigation

CMS 9801155 Burby这项研究将调查公众参与州和联邦项目以促进减灾规划可能有效的程度。这项研究将利用地方政府目前正在开展的计划活动，这些州要求制定地方政府综合计划，地方政府正在参与联邦紧急事务管理署的社区评级系统(CRS)并准备了洪泛区管理计划。数据将从佛罗里达州和华盛顿州100个地方政府的样本中收集。还将在具有模范公民参与努力的三个司法管辖区进行案例研究，以了解是否可以使用定性方法复制统计结果，进一步阐明公民参与通过或没有转化为公共官员解决危害的承诺的过程，并揭示各种公共参与技术如何影响这些过程。这项研究将对各种自然灾害产生影响。

CMS 9801155BurbyThis research will investigate the extent to which public involvement in state and federal programs to foster hazard mitigation planning is likely to be effective. The research will take advantage of program activities now underway among local governments in states that have mandated the preparation of local government comprehensive plans and among local governments that are participating the Federal Emergency Management agency's Community Rating System (CRS) and have prepared flood plain management plans. Data will be gathered from a sample of 100 local governments within Florida and Washington. Case studies will also be conducted in three jurisdictions with exemplary citizen involvement efforts in order to see if statistical results can be replicated using qualitative methods, shed additional light on the processes through which citizen involvement is, or is not, translated into commitment by public officials to address hazards, and to reveal how various public involvement techniques affect these processes. This research will have implications for various kinds of natural hazards.