Doctoral Dissertation Research: Institutional and Cultural Effects on Organized Risk Reduction Efforts

该项目调查了各种社会群体（个人、组织和组织网络）了解土地流失的原因和后果并确定减少其影响的各种选择的动态过程。此外，本研究还探讨了文化如何影响降低风险行动的转型潜力。 该研究的背景是一个拥有不同社区和大型不断变化的行业的地区，该地区也遭受了影响这些社区和行业的土地损失。 该项目分析了各种组织、团体和个人为应对和科普土地流失所做的努力。该项目的数据正在通过人种学观察、访谈和文件收集。 调查结果将增加大规模的集体决策的理解，并对公众wellbeing.This研究的广泛影响的问题将寻求确定影响接受或拒绝特定的风险框架和战略的条件，并探讨这些动态如何与更广泛的机构力量，影响风险降低。该项目的数据收集从法律的，科学和媒体文件，关键的线人访谈，采访参与减少土地损失风险的组织行为者，以及公共和恢复性事件的人种学观察。 数据分析是通过编码，以确定模式，在使用的文化叙事的演员沿着与上下文details.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

This project investigates the dynamic processes through which diverse social groups (individuals, organizations, and organizational networks) come to understand the causes and consequences of land loss and come to define the range of options available for reducing its impacts. Additionally, this research investigates how culture affects the transformational potential of risk reduction actions. The setting for the research is a region with diverse communities and large and changing industries that is also suffering land loss that affects these communities and industries. This project analyzes efforts by a variety of organizations, groups, and individuals to counteract and cope with the land loss. Data for the project are being collected through ethnographic observation, interviews, and documents. Findings will increase understanding of collective decision-making on a large scale and on issues that have broad effects on public well-being.This research will seek to identify the conditions affecting the acceptance or rejection of particular risk framings and strategies and to explore how these dynamics relate to broader institutional forces that affect risk reduction. Data for this project are collected from legal, scientific, and media documents, key informant interviews, interviews of organizational actors involved in land loss risk reduction, and ethnographic observation of public and restorative events. Analysis of the data is through coding to ascertain patterns in use of cultural narratives by actors along with contextual details.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.