Preparing for natural hazard disasters during a climate crisis: the influence of culture on people's interaction with multi-hazard risk on the Commonw

地震等自然灾害事件可能会在一个社区造成灾难，而不是在另一个社区造成灾难。其中一个原因是“社会脆弱性”，它指的是一个人应对危险事件的能力，受到各种人口统计、信任、以前事件的经历和风险认知的影响--所有这些本身都受到文化的影响。气候变化正在改变灾害的强度和频率，同时城市化正在推动人们进入灾害多发地区。因此，有必要开展减少灾害风险(DRR)研究。在我的研究中，我的目标是考虑不同文化如何与多重危险风险的概念相互作用。越来越多的人呼吁DRR研究人员在他们的研究中考虑社会科学。在理解人们如何看待多重危险风险方面，文献中也存在一个空白；即来自可能相互关联的各种危险来源的风险。通过调查、访谈和焦点小组，我建议采用混合方法设计，以提高我们对人们如何定义自己的文化(S)、人们如何理解危险事件之间的关系、“风险”概念对人们的意义有多大，以及哪些因素影响人们的准备工作的理解。我的目标是在多米尼加联邦进行研究，这是加勒比海的一个火山岛，目标是成为世界上第一个适应气候变化的国家，容易受到多种物理灾害的影响。

A natural hazard event such as an earthquake might cause a disaster in one community and not another. One reason for this is "social vulnerability" which refers to a person's capacity to cope with a hazard event and is influenced by various demographics, trust, experience of previous events, and risk perception - all of which are themselves influenced by culture. Climate change is altering the intensity and frequency of hazards meanwhile urbanisation is pushing people intohazard-prone areas. Consequently, there is a need for disaster risk reduction (DRR) research. In my research I aim to consider how different cultures interact with the concept of multi-hazard risk. There is a growing call for DRR researchersto consider social science in their studies. There is also a gap in the literature with respect to understanding how people perceive multi-hazard risk; that is risk from various hazard sources that may be interrelated. Through surveys, interviews, and focus groups, I propose to employ a mixed method design to improve our understanding of how people define their own culture(s), how people understand the relationship between hazard events, how meaningful the concept of "risk" is to people, and what factors influence people's preparedness. I aim to conduct my research on the Commonwealth of Dominica, a volcanic island in the Caribbean that has the goal of becoming the world's first climate-resilient nation and is susceptible to multiple physical hazards.