RAPID: Reformulating Networks of Security, Sustainability, and Survival: the emergence of an Atlantic storm society

飓风多利安于2019年9月袭击了北方巴哈马群岛，成为5级飓风，持续风速高达每小时185英里，阵风超过每小时200英里，长时间降雨和20英尺的浪涌。这场风暴事件的后果继续在涉及地方、国家、地区和国际社交网络的地理范围内展开。通过研究多利安飓风的直接后果，在应对网络仍在建立和重新规划的同时，有可能开始确定和描述一个沿海风暴社会的出现，该社会能够应对反复发生的大风暴日益普遍的威胁。由于多利安的出现，这个重新形成的社会有可能在长期不确定的条件下重新形成重要的网络，从而提高社区的复原力。调查结果将分发给参与灾后恢复工作的援助组织。报告将为人道主义援助/灾害应对的从业人员和研究人员提供一个利用当地复原力的更强大的评估工具的模型。该研究还通过国际合作建立科学研究能力，扩大科学中代表性不足的群体的参与，并培训本科生和研究生严格的科学数据收集和分析方法。该RAPID奖支持收集关键但短暂的数据，这些数据涉及多利安飓风后在地方和区域范围内制定的新形式的社会解体和凝聚力。在探讨安全、治理和归属感问题时，该项目询问了正在出现的新形式的社会凝聚力和基础设施，它们如何适应以及适应什么，以及哪些事件、过程和技术使这些网络得以实现或受挫。方法包括现场参与观察和有针对性的半结构化访谈（n=300）与流离失所的居民和救援组织。数据将与过去20多年来收集的有关该地区社会关系的研究进行比较，这将为理解不断变化和新兴的社会形式和社会基础设施提供基线。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

Hurricane Dorian hit the northern Bahamas in September 2019 as a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds up to 185 mph, gusts over 200 mph, prolonged rains, and 20-foot surge. The aftermath of this storm event continues to unfold across geographic scales involving local, national, regional, and international social networks. By examining the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, while networks of response are still being created and reformulated, it is possible to begin identifying and characterizing the emergence of a coastal storm society that is able to respond to the increasingly pervasive threat of recurrent major storms. This reformulated society that is taking shape as a result of Dorian has the potential to reformulate vital networks within persistent and chronic conditions of uncertainty, thereby increasing community resilience. Findings will be disseminated to aid organizations involved in disaster recovery efforts. Reports will offer practitioners and researchers of humanitarian aid/ disaster response a model for a more robust assessment tools that leverages local resilience. The research also builds scientific research capacity through international collaboration, broadens the participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences, and trains undergraduate and graduate students in methods of rigorous, scientific data collection and analysis.This RAPID award supports the collection of critical but ephemeral data on the new forms of social dissolution and cohesion formulated across local and regional scales in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. In exploring issues of security, governance,and belonging, the project asks what new forms of social cohesion and infrastructure are emerging, how and to what they are adapting, and what events, processes and technologies enable or frustrate these networks. Methods include on-site participant observation and targeted semi-structured interviews (n=300) with displaced residents and rescue organizations. Data will be compared with over 20 years of previously collected research on social relations in the region, which will provide a baseline in understanding shifting and emergent social forms and socio-infrastructures.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.