CAREER: Integrated Modeling of Hazard Mitigation Stakeholder Networks for Compassionate, Sustainable Risk Reduction

该学院早期职业发展计划（Career）项目旨在通过检查参与风险减少规划和实施的利益相关者当地网络所进行的决策，以进一步减少灾害事件造成的财产损失和社会和经济破坏，从而促进自然灾害的缓解。研究当地公共和私人行为者的相互联系的网络是至关重要的，包括在网络中培养和保持凝聚力的倡导者，这些凝聚力将知识、联邦和州政策转化为行动，并将支持国家科学基金会在灾难事件发生后推进国家福利的使命。该项目开发、测试并完善了一个新模型，该模型明确地将利益相关者的思想和情感作为相互作用的因素，以增强或约束减灾决策。项目的预期贡献包括改进地方一级更有效、更可持续的减灾决策进程，并在多个专业和学术学科中扩大一代减灾斗士。综合教育和研究计划将促进广泛和经济有效地传播研究结果，包括向历史上代表性不足的人群传播。该项目涉及三个研究要素，以测试网络为富有同情心和可持续的减灾模型产生的新假设。调查、访谈、文件审查、多元回归模型、案例研究和亲自观察将被用于应用网络科学的分析概念和技术来理解当地利益相关者的决策。为专业人员测试一门新颖的富有同情心的系统课程，将为识别和优先考虑缓解需求、目标和行动的分析和审议技术开辟新的研究路线。跨学科参与的学习模块包括战略性整合的研讨会、讲座、会议和研究生水平的课程，将产生离散和累积的教育和实践成果。总之，这些战略上有序和综合的要素将增进我们对地方减灾利益攸关方网络和倡导者在面对日益增加的自然灾害风险时的作用的理解。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) project aims to advance natural hazard mitigation by examining decision-making carried out by local networks of stakeholders involved in risk reduction planning and implementation with the goal to further reduce property losses and social and economic disruptions from disaster events. The study of the interlinked networks of local public and private actors, including the champions who foster and maintain cohesion in the networks that translate knowledge and federal and state policy into action, is critically important, and will support NSF's mission to advance the nation's welfare in this case, following disaster events. This project develops, tests, and refines a new model which explicitly incorporates stakeholders' thoughts and emotions as factors that interact to enhance or constrain hazard mitigation decision-making. Anticipated contributions of the project include an improved process for more effective, sustainable hazard mitigation decision-making at the local level and expansion of a generation of hazard mitigation champions across multiple professional and academic disciplines. The integrated education and research program will foster dissemination of findings widely and cost-effectively, including to historically underrepresented populations.The project involves three research elements to test new hypotheses generated by the networks for compassionate and sustainable hazard mitigation model. Surveys, interviews, document review, multivariate regression modeling, case studies, and in-person observation will be used to apply analytical concepts and techniques from network science to understand local stakeholder decision-making. Testing a novel compassionate systems course for professionals will open new lines of research on analytical and deliberative techniques for identifying and prioritizing mitigation needs, goals, and actions. Interdisciplinary engaged learning modules involving strategically integrated sets of seminars, lecture, conferences, and graduate-level courses, will generate discrete and cumulative education and practical outcomes. Together, these strategically ordered and integrated elements will increase our understanding of the role of local hazard mitigation stakeholder networks and champions in the face of increasing natural hazard risks.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.