RAPID: Understanding Evacuation, Sheltering, and Reentry Decisions During the Dual Threat of Hurricane and the COVID-19 Pandemic

RAPID：了解飓风和 COVID-19 大流行双重威胁期间的疏散、避难和重返决策

• 批准号: 2051578
• 负责人: Hao-Che Wu
• 金额: $ 9.05万
• 依托单位: University of North Texas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2051578&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Understanding; Evacuation; Sheltering; Reentry

This Grant for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) project will study emergency mangers’ and households’ evacuation decisions and their sheltering considerations during Hurricane Laura as individuals cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. It is important for the scientific community, policymakers, and emergency managers to understand how the simultaneous threats of a hurricane and a pandemic affect individual and household decisions about protecting themselves during these events. The findings from this project will help emergency managers and policymakers develop appropriate public health and population protection strategies to help communities be prepared for future events. With a better understating of the determinants of hurricane and pandemic protective actions (e.g. evacuation, social distancing, sheltering) compliance, emergency managers can develop better evacuation plans and warning messages to help reduce the impact of both the pandemic and hurricane, as well as to advance national health and welfare. More specifically, the scientific progress generated by this research will increase understanding of differences between emergency mangers’ and citizens’ concerns regarding the maintenance of shelters, sheltering locations (public shelters, hotels, friends’, and relatives’ house), evacuation routing, and evacuation modeling during a pandemic. Emergency managers will be able to better design and locate shelters and encourage households to take appropriate protective actions in the future when facing similar threats. This project will advance the state of science about households’ and emergency mangers’ protective action decision-making processes by using a sequential mixed methods design. This study will use survey and interview methodologies to collect both quantitative and qualitative data from emergency managers and households in the Hurricane Laura risk areas in Texas and Louisiana. Because of the complexity of the event, this project requires the integration of variables in both the Protection Motivation Theory and the Protective Action Decision Model. The results of this study will build a new theoretical model that captures individuals’ protective action decision-making process in a dual hazard environment (hurricane and pandemic). This project will contribute to emerging research on pandemics and disasters in the United States, but with a focus on how the pandemic is shaping protective action decision-making, which has generalizability to other compound events.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.

这项用于快速响应研究（快速）项目的赠款将研究紧急漫画者和家庭的疏散决定及其在劳拉飓风期间的庇护方面的考虑，因为个人应对COVID-19的大流行。对于科学界，政策制定者和应急管理者来说，重要的是了解飓风和大流行的同时威胁如何影响个人和家庭决定在这些事件中保护自己。该项目的发现将帮助应急管理者和决策者制定适当的公共卫生和人口保护策略，以帮助社区为未来的活动做好准备。有了更好地了解飓风和大流行保护行动的决定者（例如疏散，社会疏远，庇护）遵守，紧急经理可以制定更好的疏散计划和警告信息，以帮助减少流行和飓风的影响，以及促进民族健康和福利。更具体地说，这项研究所产生的科学进步将增加对紧急漫画者和公民对维护庇护所，庇护所（公共庇护所，酒店，朋友和亲戚的房屋），撤离路线的关注以及疏散路线以及疏散模型的关注。应急管理人员将能够更好地设计和定位庇护所，并鼓励家庭在面对类似威胁时在将来采取适当的保护行动。该项目将通过使用连续的混合方法设计来推进有关家庭和紧急漫画的保护行动决策过程的科学状况。这项研究将使用调查和访谈方法收集得克萨斯州和路易斯安那州飓风劳拉风险地区的紧急管理人员和家庭的定量和定性数据。由于事件的复杂性，该项目需要在保护动机理论和保护行动决策模型中整合变量。这项研究的结果将建立一个新的理论模型，该模型在双重危害环境（飓风和大流行）中捕获个人的保护行动决策过程。该项目将有助于美国关于大流行病和灾难的新兴研究，但重点是大流行如何塑造受保护的行动决策，该决策具有对其他复合事件的普遍性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是诚实的支持。