Collaborative Research - Small Grant for Exploratory Research: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Coastal Vulnerability and Community Sustainability

标题：合作研究-探索性研究的小额赠款：海岸脆弱性和社区可持续性的跨学科方法这个合作研究项目为路易斯安那州大河湾的一个小型沿海社区提供了一种独特的探索性危险研究方法。这个拥有125人的跨文化美洲原住民社区(阿塔卡帕、侯马)和卡津社区代表着一个天然的研究实验室，非常适合研究沿海高度脆弱地区的社区可持续性。大湾社区正在努力平衡自然灾害、经济发展和社区可持续发展的威胁。由于反复发生的自然灾害、海岸侵蚀和经济损失，以及对文化遗产和社会网络的威胁，它处于生存的边缘。它只能通过水路到达，位于新奥尔良南部的沿海湿地，位于密西西比河堤坝保护以西一英里处。参与性行动研究(PAR)是一种可行的、在文化上适宜的研究战略，它将：(1)观察和记录他们的努力；(2)口头和直观地记录和了解他们的遗产；(3)评估人类、建筑和自然系统；(4)采用危害研究特有的方法，使用一个基础广泛的跨学科团队。由于这个社区因自然灾害、老年人预期死亡以及为了经济和物质生存而移徙而岌岌可危，快速收集数据势在必行。像大湾湾这样的小型非法人和农村社区在面对、应对或恢复灾害方面往往缺乏足够的关注、宣传和资源。大河湾是一个适当的调查地点，旨在产生关于最容易失去但具有基于文化的生存潜力的社区的知识。

Title: Collaborative Research - Small Grant for Exploratory Research: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Coastal Vulnerability and Community Sustainability This collaborative research project offers a unique, exploratory methodology for hazards research for a small coastal community, Grand Bayou, Louisiana. This intercultural Native American (Atakapa, Houma) and Cajun community of 125 represents a natural research laboratory well-suited to the study of community sustainability in an area of high coastal vulnerability. The Grand Bayou community is struggling to balance the threat of natural hazards, economic development and community sustainability. It is perched on the edge of survival due to repeated natural disasters, coastal erosion, and economic losses, as well as threats to cultural heritage and social networks. It is only accessible by water, is located in coastal wetlands south of New Orleans, and lies one mile west outside the protection of the Mississippi levee. Participatory action research (PAR) represents a viable and culturally appropriate research strategy that will: (1) observe and record their efforts; (2) document and understand their heritage orally and visually; (3) assess human, built and natural systems; (4) apply a methodology unique to hazards research that uses a broad based interdisciplinary team. Rapid data collection is imperative due to the precariousness of this community from natural disaster, anticipated deaths among the elders, and migration for economic and physical survival. Small unincorporated and rural communities such as Grand Bayou often lack adequate attention, advocacy and resources in facing, responding to, or recovering from disasters. Grand Bayou represents an appropriate location for inquiry designed to generate knowledge on communities most vulnerable to loss but with a culturally based potential to survive.