Collaborative Research: A Micro-empiric Examination of the Economic Effects from Natural Disasters in Dense Urbanized Areas: The Case of Hurricane Sandy and New York City

人口密集的城市化地区是企业蓬勃发展的地方，但它们也越来越容易受到自然灾害的影响。 该项目旨在量化自然灾害，特别是飓风桑迪对纽约市这一大型密集城市中心商业机构的复原力和恢复的影响。调查结果将为企业、业主和政府官员的财务规划和风险评估策略提供信息，以便他们能够更好地应对自然灾害的威胁，并执行更有效的恢复流程。这项研究的结果将使政府能够更好地了解灾害的经济成本，确定最脆弱的企业，并帮助加强这些脆弱企业的复原力，使他们能够在极端事件面前更快地恢复。 研究结果还将帮助地方政府设计和制定更有效的计划，以支持灾难事件后的城市企业和社区。 总的来说，研究结果不仅有助于改善受灾害破坏的个体企业和财产的生存能力，还有助于提高沿海城市的整体经济健康状况。PI将创建一个关于商业活动、财产、社区和风暴破坏的丰富数据集，并使用它来分析纽约市企业的灾后恢复能力的性质和程度。他们将研究复原力是否取决于企业的类型和规模、当地社区的特点以及灾害破坏的严重程度。他们将使用各种分析技术和研究设计，以更好地确定自然灾害对企业恢复和复原力的性质和持续时间的直接影响。 他们还将通过观察纽约市的商业复苏区的案例来检验政府援助是促进还是阻碍了企业的复苏。

Dense urbanized areas are places where businesses thrive, but they are also increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters. This project aims to quantify the effect of natural disasters, and specifically Hurricane Sandy, on the resilience and recovery of business establishments in a large and dense urban center, New York City. The findings will inform financial planning and risk-assessment strategies for businesses, property owners, and government officials so that they can be better prepared against the threats of natural disasters and execute more effective recovery processes. The findings from this study will enable governments to better understand the economic costs of disasters, identify the most vulnerable businesses, and help bolster the resilience of those vulnerable businesses and enable them to recover more rapidly in the face of extreme events. The results will also help local governments design and target more effective programs to support urban businesses and neighborhoods after disaster events. Overall, the findings will not only help to improve the viability of individual businesses and properties damaged by disasters, but also to enhance the overall economic health of coastal cities. The PIs will create a rich dataset on business activity, properties, neighborhoods and storm damage and use it to analyze the nature and degree of post-disaster resilience for businesses in New York City. They will examine whether or not resilience varies depending on the type and size of the business, the characteristics of the local neighborhood and the severity of the disaster's damage. They will use various analytical techniques and research designs to better identify the direct impact of a natural disaster on the nature and duration of a business' recovery and resilience. They will also test to see if government aid either facilitates or hinders the business' recovery by looking at the case of Business Recovery Zones in New York City.