Community Response and Resilience to the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake

1755年的里斯本地震是欧洲历史上最大的地震事件，它催化了现代社会如何减轻和管理潜在灾难性事件的后续变化。这个催化合作项目，涉及美国和葡萄牙的研究人员，将探讨世纪葡萄牙社区对这一事件的反应，借鉴葡萄牙数百个教区的当代报告，描述神职人员，军队和政府成员如何应对灾难。正在研究的社区的特征可以从其他当代来源获得，这些来源与本工作的其他来源一起沿着保存在葡萄牙国家档案馆。将开展更多的研究，以确定葡萄牙政府在灾后使用的灾后评估工具（如调查）的开发和部署的特点。将使用定性和定量相结合的方法（如内容分析和统计数据建模）为研究中的数据提供背景，并使研究假设的测试成为可能。这项研究预计将通过考虑社区响应活动，根据目前对1755年里斯本地震影响的理解，促进对人类应对灾害的理解。它将有助于研究如何根据受灾社区和灾害本身的特点来制定救灾决策。因此，它将提供一个有历史根据的批评，目前的理论，社区的复原力，并预计将确定机会和限制，以改善目前的社区对灾害的反应。最后，预计它将提供工具和技术，用于对历史记录中与灾害有关的数据进行分析。

As the largest European seismic event in the historical record, the 1755 Lisbon earthquake served as the catalyst for subsequent changes in how modern societies mitigate and manage potentially catastrophic events. This catalytic collaborative project, involving researchers based in the US and Portugal, will explore the response of communities in 18th century Portugal to this event, drawing upon contemporary reports from hundreds of parishes in Portugal which describe how members of the clergy, military and government responded to the disaster. Characteristics of the communities under study are available from additional contemporary sources which, along with other sources for this work, are held in the Portuguese National Archives. Additional research will be undertaken to characterize the development and deployment of post-disaster assessment tools (such as surveys) used by the Portuguese government following the event. Combined qualitative and quantitative methods (such as content analysis and statistical data modeling) will be used to provide a context for the data under study and to enable testing of research hypotheses.This research is expected to advance understanding of human response to disaster by considering community response activities in light of current understanding of the effects of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. It will contribute to research on how disaster response decision making may be shaped by characteristics both of affected communities and of the disaster itself. It will thus provide an historically grounded critique of current theories of community resilience, and is expected to identify opportunities and limitations to improving the response of current communities to disaster. Finally, it is expected to contribute tools and techniques for undertaking analysis of disaster-related data that are embedded deep in the historical record.