Collaborative Research: Response and Resilience Following Compound Extreme Events

气候变化影响日益普遍、严重和复杂。多种气候灾害（干旱、洪水、极端高温）可能同时或连续发生，并与非气候因素（COVID-19大流行、土地管理立法）相互作用，使整体影响复杂化，并导致社会生态系统的脆弱性增加。虽然人们认识到复合灾害的潜在影响，但人们对经历这些灾害的社会如何应对和建立复原力知之甚少。因此，本项目旨在了解畜牧业系统对复合灾害的反应和影响。这种理解与适应气候变化以及减少灾害风险和在面对复合灾害时建立复原力的努力直接相关。在实现这些目标的过程中，该项目将培训学生，包括在少数民族服务机构中培训学生，并更普遍地提高不具备条件的科学界的环境科学能力。这个跨学科项目汇集了在田园环境中拥有数十年工作经验的高级和初级教师，他们提出的研究问题集中在(1)复合灾害对不同土地管理系统的田园系统的影响，(2)理解对复合灾害的客观和主观恢复能力，以及(3)对社会机构的影响，这些机构对社会的反应、应对和恢复能力至关重要。访谈、调查和参与式研究方法将提供所需的数据，以了解家庭和社区对一次极端事件的反应如何影响他们对后续或并发事件的反应能力。这项研究的独特之处在于，在理解个人和社会应对复合灾害的能力方面，对恢复力进行了客观和主观的衡量，从而改变了受自然灾害影响最严重的人的恢复力的跨学科研究。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。

Climate change impacts are becoming increasingly common, severe, and complex. Multiple climate disasters (droughts, floods, extreme heat) may occur simultaneously or in succession, and interact with non-climate factors (COVID-19 pandemic, land management legislation), compounding the overall impacts and leading to increased vulnerability of social-ecological systems. While the potential impact of compound disasters is recognized, little is known about how societies experiencing them respond and build resilience. Thus, this project aims to understand the response to and impact of compound disasters within pastoral systems. Such understanding is directly relevant to climate change adaptation and efforts to reduce disaster risk and build resilience in the face of compound disasters. In pursuing these aims, the project will train students, including at a minority serving institution, and more generally enhance the capacity for environmental science in undeserved scientific communities.This interdisciplinary project brings together senior and junior faculty, who have decades of experience working in pastoral contexts, to ask research questions focused on (1) the impacts of compound disasters on pastoral systems with different land management systems, (2) understanding objective and subjective resilience to compound disasters, and (3) the impacts on the social institutions that are critical to a society’s ability to respond, cope, and recover. Interviews, surveys, and participatory research approaches will provide the data needed to understand how responses of households and communities to one extreme event affects their ability to respond to subsequent or concurrent events. This study is unique in marshaling both objective and subjective measures of resilience in understanding the capacity of both individuals and societies to respond to compound disasters, thereby transforming the growing interdisciplinary study of resilience of those most affected by natural hazards.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.