Collaborative Research: Place Attachment in Mitigation and Recovery: A Mixed Methods Study of Residential Adjustment Following Wildfires

合作研究：将依恋置于缓解和恢复中：野火后住宅调整的混合方法研究

• 批准号: 2135424
• 负责人: Alex Greer
• 金额: $ 22.27万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Albany
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2135424&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Place; Attachment; Mitigation

After a major disaster, such as a wildfire, affected homeowners must make a difficult decision: do they rebuild their home as it was before the disaster, rebuild but in a way that better protects them from future disasters, or relocate to a new home elsewhere? These are complicated decisions that impact homeowners and communities for many years. Such decisions are influenced by many factors, including household income, access to insurance, location of employment, the need for local services such as medical care or schools, and connections to family and friends. One underlying factor that affects all these others is place attachment, or the emotional and functional ties that people have to the place where they live. This study focuses on understanding how place attachment influences the decisions people make after disasters, specifically decisions about where they live and whether they invest in measures that reduce their risk to future disasters. Focused on three California counties that have been affected by recent, major wildfires, findings from this study will help local governments and practitioners develop programs that better support households that are affected by disasters and inform community planning for hazards associated with climate change.This study investigates the role of place attachment in residential adjustment after wildfires. Households affected by wildfires face a critical decision point: do they rebuild in the same way, rebuild with new mitigation efforts, or relocate? Relatively few studies have examined the factors that influence these residential decision-making processes, particularly the role of intangible factors like place attachment. This study addresses these critical gaps in our understanding, with the goals of: (1) investigating residential adjustment among homeowners affected by recent California wildfires, (2) examining the role of place attachment in post-disaster residential adjustment, and (3) assessing the extent to which current place attachment measures capture the observed dynamics of place attachment in disaster contexts. Using three California counties as study sites, and building on a pilot study in these same, fire-affected communities, the research team will use photovoice method and phenomenological analyses to develop a deep, contextually grounded understanding of the role of place attachment in residential decisions. Additionally, the team will use qualitative comparative analysis to examine commonalities in household adjustment pathways after disaster. Study findings will advance both the theoretical and practical understanding of place attachment in mitigation and recovery. Given that place attachment is a foundational construct tied to many other aspects of recovery decision-making, this will be a critical contribution for US communities given the increasing losses to wildfire and other climate-induced disasters. Furthermore, study findings will contribute meaningfully to housing recovery policy, adaptation policy, and recovery and relocation practice.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.

在发生野火之类的重大灾难之后，受影响的房主必须做出一个艰难的决定：他们是否像灾难之前一样重建房屋，重建，但可以更好地保护他们免受未来的灾难，或者搬迁到其他地方？这些是复杂的决定，影响了多年来的房主和社区。这些决定受许多因素的影响，包括家庭收入，获得保险，就业位置，对当地服务（例如医疗或学校）的需求以及与家人和朋友的联系。影响所有其他这些的根本因素是地点的依恋，或者人们与他们所居住的地方的情感和功能联系。这项研究重点是了解地点依恋如何影响人们在灾难后做出的决策，特别是关于他们居住地的决定，以及他们是否投资于降低未来灾难的风险的措施。这项研究的调查结果专注于最近受主要野火的三个加利福尼亚县，将有助于地方政府和从业人员制定计划，以更好地支持受灾害影响的家庭，并为与气候变化相关的危害提供了社区规划。这项研究调查了野生火灾后的地位依恋作用。受野火影响的家庭面临着一个关键的决策点：他们是否以相同的方式重建，通过新的缓解工作重建或搬迁？相对较少的研究研究了影响这些住宅决策过程的因素，尤其是无形因素（如地位依恋）的作用。这项研究解决了我们的理解中的这些关键差距，其目标是：（1）研究受到最近加州野火影响的房主之间的住宅调整，（2）检查地点依恋在污点后住宅调整中的作用，（3）评估当前位置依恋量的范围，捕获了在灾难上下的地点附着的动态动力学的程度。研究团队将使用三个加利福尼亚县作为研究地点，并在这些受火灾影响的社区中进行试点研究，将使用光电图方法和现象学分析，以对位置依恋在住宅决策中的作用进行深入的，上下文扎根的理解。此外，团队将使用定性比较分析来检查灾难发生后家庭调整途径的共同点。研究结果将提高对缓解和恢复的位置依恋的理论和实际理解。鉴于该地点的依恋是与恢复决策的许多其他方面相关的基本结构，鉴于对野火和其他气候引起的灾难的损失越来越大，这将是美国社区的重要贡献。此外，研究结果将有意义地为住房恢复政策，适应政策以及恢复和搬迁实践做出有意义的贡献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，认为值得通过评估来获得支持。