Concurrent Hazards and Resilience: COVID-19 in Hurricane-Prone Areas
摘要
This chapter focuses on how concurrent hazardsConcurrent hazards, specifically COVID-19COVID-19 and hurricanesHurricanes, impact individual and household coping and adaptive capacities. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the underlying research. As the pandemic spread and ebbed and waned through 2020 and the first half of 2021, individuals and households faced multiple challenges with health risks, precarious housing conditions, economic hardship, and multiple concurrent hurricanesHurricanes. In our research, we employed the theoretical lens of subjective resilienceResilience and adaptive and coping capacity to understand individual cognition of risks and perceptions of recoveryRecovery from the pandemic, particularly for those living in hurricane-prone areas facing the potential of multiple hazards. We collected individual-level data via surveys and other secondary data to explore the factors affecting these subjective perceptions of resilienceResilience and recoveryRecovery, such as capacities to adapt and cope, risk perceptions, communication sources, and levels of physical and social vulnerabilities. The results of our research help fill gaps in knowledge that can improve contingency planning and policymaking to deal with multiple hazards and concurrent crises.