Decision-Making Among Businesses in Post-Catastrophe Uncertainty: How Economic Geographies Re-Form in New Orleans

灾难后不确定性下的企业决策：新奥尔良的经济地理如何重组

• 批准号: 0554937
• 负责人: Nina Lam
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-11-01 至 2007-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0554937&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Decision; Making; Among; Businesses; Post

This project seeks to understand the commercial side of resettlement of residents in urban environments after a catastrophe. The overarching research question is: how businesses make spatial decisions on whether to return or relocate and how these decisions in turn impact the landscape and its economy. Specifically, the project will collect and analyze time-critical data on what, where, how, why, and when businesses return to New Orleans following the repopulation of the city after Hurricane Katrina. Both telephone surveys and street surveys of businesses will be conducted periodically. The street surveys will include a complete survey of three major commercial corridors in New Orleans every two weeks, tracking where, when, and what businesses return and survive (or fail). The telephone surveys, conducted every 2~3 weeks for 5 rounds, will target businesses throughout the entire city. In each round, a random sample of 500 complete surveys stratified by census tract and by a few business categories will be conducted. Both sets of survey data will then be mapped and integrated with census, flood damage, and other GIS (geographic information system) data layers. This will provide a valuable, time-critical spatial-temporal data set that can serve to answer a number of specific research questions.Very little research has focused on collecting time-critical, empirical data on how businesses make spatial decisions on whether they remain or relocate after a catastrophe, especially a catastrophe as deep and wide as we have seen in Hurricane Katrina that affects an entire metropolis of New Orleans. The time-critical data collected for this project will provide unique information on how decisions among businesses are made in this unprecedented case. The coupling and tracking of street and telephone surveys over time will provide vital information for research on human-social-economic dynamics over space and time. The data will serve as an important benchmark dataset for subsequent research and for comparisons with other studies (e.g. studies on decisions made by individuals). Results from this project will also help governmental and planning agencies in devising effective policies for economic recovery in the region.

该项目旨在了解灾难后城市环境中居民重新安置的商业方面。总体研究问题是：企业如何就返回还是搬迁做出空间决定，以及这些决策如何影响格局及其经济。具体而言，该项目将收集和分析关键时间数据，以了解在卡特里娜飓风之后重新居住城市后，企业在何处，何处，如何，为什么以及何时返回新奥尔良。电话调查和企业街道调查都将定期进行。街道调查将包括每两周新奥尔良的三个主要商业走廊的完整调查，跟踪企业在哪里，何时何地返回和生存（或失败）。每2至3周进行5轮的电话调查将针对整个城市的企业。在每回合中，将对500个完整的调查进行随机样本，按人口普查区和一些业务类别进行分层。然后，两组调查数据将与人口普查，洪水损失和其他GIS（地理信息系统）数据层进行映射并集成。这将提供一个有价值的，关键时期的时空数据集，可以用来回答许多特定的研究问题。几乎没有研究集中于收集有关企业如何保留或如何保留或如何保留或进行空间决策的时间关键的经验数据在灾难中搬迁，尤其是像我们在卡特里娜飓风中看到的那样深而广泛的灾难，影响了新奥尔良的整个大都市。为该项目收集的关键时间数据将提供有关在这种前所未有的情况下如何在企业之间做出决策的独特信息。随着时间的推移，街道和电话调查的耦合和跟踪将为有关时空和时间上的人类社会经济动态研究提供重要信息。该数据将作为随后研究并与其他研究进行比较的重要基准数据集（例如，对个人做出的决策研究）。该项目的结果还将有助于政府和计划机构制定该地区经济复苏的有效政策。