A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Community Recovery

本研究旨在通过将灾前因果条件的措施与灾后恢复结果联系起来，建立灾后恢复途径的综合理论。尽管努力提高社区的抗灾能力，但在过去25年中，灾害的数量和经济影响每年都在增加。与此同时，很少有跨案例比较研究完成，以揭示什么条件能够使社区在灾难后恢复。然而，了解导致灾后恢复的因果条件对于提高社区灾后恢复能力至关重要。本研究试图通过使用多方法分析比较案例来改变我们对康复的理解。这将使我们能够确定哪些灾前因素和恢复战略（结合起来或单独起来）会导致灾后恢复的成功。具体而言，本研究将(1)确定跨多个学科的社区恢复的恢复指标和重要因果条件；(2)测量受2004年印度洋海啸影响的印度村庄的恢复因果条件和指标；(3)分析导致案例研究社区恢复的因果条件路径。这项研究的结果将使社区规划者能够优先考虑并将他们的努力集中在最能加强社区从灾难中恢复能力的因果因素上。它还将有助于制定灾难恢复框架，该框架可通过今后的研究加以扩展。

This research aims to build a comprehensive theory of pathways to recovery following a disaster by linking pre-disaster measures of causal conditions to recovery outcomes. Despite efforts to improve community resilience to disasters, the number and economic impact of disasters has increased each year over the past 25 years. At the same time, little cross-case comparative research has been completed to uncover what conditions enable a community to recover after a disaster. Understanding the causal conditions that lead to recovery is, however, fundamental to improving a community's ability to recover after a disaster. This research seeks to transform our understanding of recovery by analyzing comparative cases using a multi-method approach. This will enable us to determine what pre-disaster factors and recovery strategies, combined or in isolation, lead to successful post-disaster recovery. Specifically, this research will (1) identify recovery indicators and important causal conditions for community recovery across multiple disciplines (2) measure causal conditions and recovery indicators for villages in India impacted by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; and (3) analyze the pathways of causal conditions that led to recovery in the case study communities.The results of this study will allow community planners to prioritize and focus their efforts on the causal factors that best strengthen the community's ability to recover from a disaster. It will also contribute to the development of a disaster recovery framework that can be expanded through future research.