Project 2: Community Based Assessment of Social Vulnerability and Resiliency

项目总结(见说明)： 这项提案旨在通过利用社区参与性研究，对社会脆弱性和对技术灾害的复原力的指标进行定性评估和改进，并确定墨西哥湾沿岸依赖资源的社区复原力的成功战略，从而推动目前关于社区脆弱性和复原力的文献。佛罗里达大学的调查人员将与代表目前参与深水地平线漏油事故后恢复进程的倡导团体的社区组织合作，进行关键的线人访谈、焦点小组和社区调查，以确定脆弱性和弹性的关键点。通过与当地伙伴建立伙伴关系，以社区为基础的研究进程将建立组织能力，以便更好地了解和监测这些脆弱性和复原力关键点，为未来的灾害做好准备。在建筑中 在组织能力方面，该项目旨在通过提高当地公民和非营利组织备灾和灾后恢复的能力来改善人口健康。由当地基层组织代表的四个社区将参与这一项目，并将利用确定和比较他们的恢复战略来为社区制定一套“最佳做法”，以便为未来的灾难做好准备。该项目的具体目标是：1)利用社区心理学、社会学和备灾文献中的既定措施，评估四个伙伴社区中每个社区的社会脆弱性和社区复原力；2)采用参与性研究技术，评估已建立的脆弱性和复原力衡量标准，并通过基于社区的评估制定针对文化的替代指标；3)确定社区和区域一级的社会网络的特征，通过这些网络进行危机和风险沟通，以改进如何解释和分享在灾害和随后的恢复期间保护人类健康的关键信息；以及4)确定参与诉讼的替代办法，以此作为个人和社区恢复的手段，以便为政策制定者准备未来的灾害提供建议。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): This proposal seeks to advance the current literature on community vulnerability and resiliency by utilizing community based participatoty research to qualitatively assess and improve upon indicators of social vulnerability and resiliency to technological disasters and identify successful strategies for resiliency in resource dependent communities along the Gulf Coast. In partnership with community organizations representing advocacy groups currently involved in the recovery process following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, investigators from the University of Florida will conduct key informant interviews, focus groups, and community surveys to identify critical points of vulnerability and resiliency. Though partnerships with local partners, the community-based research process will build organizational capacity to better understand and monitor these critical points of vulnerability and resiliency in preparation for future disasters. In building organizational capacity, this project aims to improve population health by improving local civic and nonprofit capacity for disaster preparedness and recovery. Four communities represented by local grassroots organizations will participate in this project and the identification and comparison of their strategies for recovery will be used to develop a set of 'best practices' for communities to implement in preparation for future disasters. The specific aims of the project are to: 1) Assess social vulnerability and community resiliency in each of the four partner communities utilizing established measures from the community psychology, sociology, and disaster preparedness literatures; 2) Employ participatoty research techniques to evaluate established measures of vulnerability and resilience and develop culturally-specific alternative indicators through community-based assessments; 3) Characterize the social networks at the community and regional levels through which crisis and risk communication flows to improve how critical information for the protection of human health during a disaster and subsequent recovery periods is interpreted and shared; and 4) Identify alternatives to participation in litigation as means of recovery for individuals and communities to develop recommendations for policy-makers in preparation of future disasters.