RAPID: Collaborative Research: Hurricane Sandy, Disaster Recovery, and the Seeds of Urban Transformation

RAPID：合作研究：桑迪飓风、灾难恢复和城市转型的种子

• 批准号: 1329448
• 负责人: Robin Leichenko
• 金额: $ 2.98万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-15 至 2015-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1329448&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Collaborative; Research; Hurricane; Sandy

This RAPID response research project investigates the impact of Hurricane Sandy on future coastal development in heavily damaged communities in New Jersey and New York. Drawing from new innovations in socio-ecological transition theory, the study tests the hypothesis that that critical transitions or regime shifts can be precipitated by external shocks events, such as major natural disasters. Using a transition framework, the study explores whether Hurricane Sandy and the responses to the severe storm surge damage from the hurricane have created conditions that may lead to a transformation of settlement patterns of the New York-New Jersey (NY-NJ) Metropolitan Region coastal zone. Research for the study entails documentation and analysis of the types and character of responses and actions that are being considered or are just underway by individual property and business owners, government officials at the municipal, county, state, and federal levels, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in a representative set of four heavily impacted coastal communities in New Jersey and New York (two in each state). The application of a transition framework to the assessment of responses taken in the short-term aftermath of Hurricane Sandy presents a unique opportunity to advance theoretical and applied understanding of how extreme disaster events set in motion fundamental, socio-ecological system shifts within vulnerable and at risk areas of large metropolitan regions. This project contributes to fundamental understanding of how new types of disaster events emerging with climate change might affect coastal development patterns in urbanized areas of the United States. Within the United States and globally, disaster risk reduction policies and strategies have emphasized using lessons from the past events in order to understand what should be avoided in the future. Yet growing recognition of the non-stationarity of the climate is compelling individuals operating at all levels, from local communities to the federal government, to look at Hurricane Sandy and other similar extreme events in a different way. In particular, there is growing recognition that coastal properties, infrastructure, and larger interconnected, urban systems cannot be rebuilt with the simple goal of reducing vulnerability to the last event and that the rebuilding effort must allow for much greater resilience in the future. This study provides invaluable information about factors that promote or hinder resilience within large, coastal urban systems. Results of the study are to be disseminated via public presentations to local and regional stakeholders and through policy documents and research articles. With respect to traineeship opportunities, the study facilitates the training of graduate students at Rutgers University and City University of New York in rapid response climate change impact and adaptation assessment.

这个快速的响应研究项目调查了桑迪飓风对新泽西州和纽约严重受损社区未来沿海发展的影响。从社会生态过渡理论中的新创新中借鉴，该研究检验了以下假设：临界过渡或政权转移可以通过外部冲击事件（例如主要的自然灾害）促成。该研究使用过渡框架探索了飓风飓风和对飓风严重风暴潮的反应是否产生了可能导致纽约 - 纽约新泽西州（NY-NJ）大都市地区沿海地区定居方式的条件。该研究的研究需要进行文档和分析，对正在考虑或仅仅由个人财产和企业主，市政，县，州和联邦级别的政府官员以及非政府组织（NGOS）的政府官员（NGOS）进行的响应和特征进行分析，并在一个代表性的四个代表性的套装中，由四个重大影响的沿海社区和纽约州和纽约州和纽约州（两者）。在飓风桑迪（Sandy）的短期后，将过渡框架应用于评估反应，这为促进了理论上和应用的独特机会，并应用了对极端灾难事件的基本，社会生态系统如何在易于攻击和攻击大型大都市地区的风险地区转变。该项目有助于对新型灾难事件的基本了解如何随着气候变化的形式出现，可能会影响美国城市化地区的沿海发展模式。在美国和全球范围内，减少灾害风险的政策和策略强调了使用过去事件中的教训，以了解将来应该避免的事情。然而，人们对气候的非平稳性的认识越来越令人震惊，从当地社区到联邦政府，以不同的方式看待飓风桑迪和其他类似的极端事件。特别是，人们越来越认识到沿海地产，基础设施和更大的相互联系，无法重建城市系统，而将减少上一次事件的脆弱性的简单目标进行重建，并且重建努力必须在将来允许更大的韧性。这项研究提供了有关促进或阻碍大型沿海城市系统中弹性的因素的宝贵信息。该研究的结果应通过公开介绍给地方和地区利益相关者以及政策文件和研究文章来传播。关于实习机会，这项研究促进了罗格斯大学和纽约城市大学的研究生培训，以快速应对气候变化的影响和适应评估。