RAPID: Operationalizing the Capabilities Approach in the Context of Disaster Resilience: Measuring the Social Burden of Infrastructure Disruptions

RAPID：在抗灾能力的背景下实施能力方法：衡量基础设施中断的社会负担

• 批准号: 2128030
• 负责人: Susan Clark
• 金额: $ 19.94万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-15 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2128030&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Operationalizing; Capabilities; Approach; Context

This Grant for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) project assesses the impacts of power outages and associated infrastructure disruptions (e.g., water and transportation) on households by conducting a residential survey in Texas of people impacted by the February 2021 Winter Storm. During the storm, millions of households without power and water struggled to meet their basic needs. Cooking food, accessing clean water, and staying warm proved difficult without electricity and water. Focusing on these interrupted household services and the additional effort necessary to complete important household tasks enables research to understand how critical infrastructure facilitates the achievement of basic household needs. Moreover, through the examination of the additional ‘costs’ (e.g., extra time and money spent) required to meet these needs and maintain household capabilities during disruptions, the project contributes to developing a metric that captures the social burden of infrastructure disruptions. This metric of the social impacts of infrastructure disruptions can inform infrastructure planning and investment decisions by capturing currently unmeasured consequences of infrastructure failure. This research seeks to advance the Capabilities Approach (CA) framework for understanding human development and well-being by investigating the social impacts of infrastructure disruptions on households. The primary objective is to empirically examine the impacts of the recent power outages (and associated infrastructure disruptions) in Texas on household basic capabilities (i.e., being healthy and feeling safe). The research team conducts a representative, outage-wide survey of Texan households to identify the type and intensity of capability losses experienced, and examines the role of prior outage experience in mediating impacts. The event in Texas is particularly distinct because a significant portion of the population impacted has not experienced significant outages in recent memory. By comparing the responses of people with varying levels of prior outage experience, this research elucidates the role of experience in mediating outage impacts, and enables the researchers to more accurately measure the true burden of disruptions on households caught off-guard by Winter Storm Uri. This research goes beyond prior work by obtaining granular data on the links between critical infrastructure services and basic capabilities by analyzing the impacts of power outages as they cause cascading infrastructure system disruptions (i.e., water, food, etc.). The research maps the linkages between the disruption of household infrastructure services (i.e., lighting, refrigeration) and the disruption of day-to-day household activities critical for maintaining basic needs (i.e., keeping warm, eating) that may limit the achievement of critical capabilities and functions important for human well-being (i.e., being healthy and felling safe). This work supports a novel and augmented Capabilities Approach framework that can be used to understand the social impacts of infrastructure disruptions on households as well as the ways in which households adapt to meet basic needs. Second, the data collected are used to develop a metric that quantifies the social burden of infrastructure disruptions on households, which is estimated according to the extra time and costs required of households to fulfill basic needs during infrastructure outages.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.

该快速响应研究补助金 (RAPID) 项目通过对德克萨斯州受 2021 年 2 月冬季风暴影响的居民进行住宅调查，评估停电和相关基础设施中断（例如水和交通）对家庭的影响。数百万没有电和水的家庭难以满足他们的基本需求。事实证明，在没有电和水的情况下，做饭、获得清洁水和取暖都变得困难。关注这些中断的家庭服务以及完成重要家务所需的额外努力使研究能够得以实现。了解如何此外，通过检查满足这些需求和在中断期间维持家庭能力所需的额外“成本”（例如，花费的额外时间和金钱），该项目有助于制定一个衡量标准：捕捉基础设施中断的社会负担。这一衡量基础设施中断的社会影响的指标可以通过捕捉目前无法衡量的基础设施故障的后果来为基础设施规划和投资决策提供信息。这项研究旨在推进能力方法（CA）框架，以了解人类发展和影响。福利研究小组通过调查基础设施中断对家庭的社会影响，主要目标是实证研究德克萨斯州最近的停电（以及相关的基础设施中断）对家庭基本能力（即健康和安全感）的影响。对德克萨斯州家庭进行了一项具有代表性的、全面的停电调查，以确定所经历的能力损失的类型和强度，并研究了先前停电经历在调解影响中的作用。没有明显经历通过比较具有不同程度的先前停电经历的人们的反应，这项研究阐明了经验在调解停电影响中的作用，并使研究人员能够更准确地衡量措手不及的家庭所承受的真正中断负担。这项研究超越了之前的工作，通过分析停电造成的级联基础设施系统中断（即水、食物、该研究描绘了家庭基础设施服务（即照明、制冷）中断与对基本维持需求（即保暖、饮食）至关重要的日常家庭活动中断之间的联系，这些活动可能会限制人们的生活。实现对人类福祉至关重要的关键能力和功能（即健康和安全）。这项工作支持一种新颖的增强能力方法框架，该框架可用于了解基础设施中断对家庭和家庭的社会影响。这其次，收集的数据用于制定一个量化基础设施中断对家庭造成的社会负担的指标，该指标是根据家庭满足基本需求所需的额外时间和成本进行估算的。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。

项目成果

Developing an equity-focused metric for quantifying the social burden of infrastructure disruptions

制定以公平为中心的指标来量化基础设施中断的社会负担

• DOI: 10.1080/23789689.2022.2157116
• 发表时间: 2023-01
• 期刊: Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
• 影响因子: 5.9
• 作者: Clark, Susan Spierre;Peterson, Sara K.E.;Shelly, Michael A.;Jeffers, Robert F.
• 通讯作者: Jeffers, Robert F.