Collaborative Research: Response and Resilience Following Compound Extreme Events

合作研究：复合极端事件后的反应和恢复力

• 批准号: 2148184
• 负责人: J. Terrence McCabe
• 金额: $ 33.92万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 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: 2022-08-15 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2148184&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Response; Resilience; Following

Climate change impacts are becoming increasingly common, severe, and complex. Multiple climate disasters (droughts, floods, extreme heat) may occur simultaneously or in succession, and interact with non-climate factors (COVID-19 pandemic, land management legislation), compounding the overall impacts and leading to increased vulnerability of social-ecological systems. While the potential impact of compound disasters is recognized, little is known about how societies experiencing them respond and build resilience. Thus, this project aims to understand the response to and impact of compound disasters within pastoral systems. Such understanding is directly relevant to climate change adaptation and efforts to reduce disaster risk and build resilience in the face of compound disasters. In pursuing these aims, the project will train students, including at a minority serving institution, and more generally enhance the capacity for environmental science in undeserved scientific communities.This interdisciplinary project brings together senior and junior faculty, who have decades of experience working in pastoral contexts, to ask research questions focused on (1) the impacts of compound disasters on pastoral systems with different land management systems, (2) understanding objective and subjective resilience to compound disasters, and (3) the impacts on the social institutions that are critical to a society’s ability to respond, cope, and recover. Interviews, surveys, and participatory research approaches will provide the data needed to understand how responses of households and communities to one extreme event affects their ability to respond to subsequent or concurrent events. This study is unique in marshaling both objective and subjective measures of resilience in understanding the capacity of both individuals and societies to respond to compound disasters, thereby transforming the growing interdisciplinary study of resilience of those most affected by natural hazards.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.

气候变化的影响变得越来越普遍、严重和复杂，多种气候灾害（干旱、洪水、极端高温）可能同时或连续发生，并与非气候因素（COVID-19 大流行、土地管理立法）相互作用，加剧这种情况。尽管人们认识到复合灾害的潜在影响，但人们对经历这些灾害的社会如何应对和建立复原力知之甚少，因此，该项目旨在了解复合灾害的应对措施和影响。牧区复合灾害这种理解与气候变化适应以及减少灾害风险和增强应对复合灾害的复原力的努力直接相关。为了实现这些目标，该项目将培训学生，包括少数族裔服务机构的学生，并更广泛地提高灾害风险。这个跨学科项目汇集了拥有数十年田园工作经验的高级和初级教师，提出的研究问题集中在 (1) 复合灾害对不同土地管理的田园系统的影响(2) 理解客观和主观复原力(3) 对社会机构的影响，这些机构对于社会的应对、应对和恢复能力至关重要。访谈、调查和参与性研究方法将提供了解家庭和社区如何应对所需的数据。这项研究的独特之处在于，它综合了客观和主观的复原力衡量标准，以了解个人和社会应对复合灾害的能力，从而改变了日益增长的跨学科研究。受自然影响最严重的人的复原力该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。