Ethics in Disaster Research: A New Declaration

Kendra, James; Gregory, Sarah

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04691-0_16

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“…Is it appropriate to enter a community-wide shelter and ask for research participants? Some argue that doing so may interfere with first responder work (Louis-Charles et al, 2020), while others argue any interference can be easily mitigated (Kendra & Gregory, 2019). How do we identify populations and collect data when such a large percentage of the population evacuated the city?…”

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“…Some disaster researchers argue that all research helps, and that researchers inherently have a “right” to be there simply because they are researchers (e.g., Kendra & Gregory, 2019). Other disaster researchers disagree and counter this standpoint by arguing that disaster research needs a unified code of conduct, which disaster survivors may qualify as vulnerable, and that research ethics are just as important as research methods.…”

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“…Those in this camp argue that all research is good, and that all research leads to more knowledge and greater understanding. This camp further believes that researchers have an inherent right, and in fact a duty, to study wherever our field of inquiry takes us, and to publish those findings (Kendra & Gregory, 2019). I think we must be very careful with this argument because there is power and privilege embedded in it.…”

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“…Browne and Peek (2014) identified ethical dilemmas they encountered in the field, including participant vulnerability, participant expectations, and reciprocity/giving back. Kendra and Gregory (2019) also discuss access to the disaster site, the responsibility of researchers to the affected community, and participant vulnerability. Louis-Charles et al (2020) discuss similar challenges in their experiences conducting research in the Caribbean.…”

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Disaster Research “Methics”: Ethical and Methodological Considerations of Researching Disaster-Affected Populations

Brown

2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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How we do research directly affects what we know about the subject matter under study. While the study of disaster events continues to grow, rigorous inquiry on disaster research methodology is limited because it is confounded by the disruption a disaster presents. Yet it is precisely at that point that special methodological problems emerge. The methodological—and inherently ethical—challenges disaster researchers face became apparent to me during my own fieldwork on domestic violence organizations and their recovery trajectory following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. In this article, I explore methodological and ethical issues that lay beneath “studying” people in the wake of disaster events and argue that ethical concerns should have the same, if not greater, primacy as methods; a dual consideration I refer to as “methics.” My findings support this argument and add to the growing chorus advocating for a paradigm shift in disaster research methods.

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Disaster Research “Methics”: Ethical and Methodological Considerations of Researching Disaster-Affected Populations

Brown

2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Unfortunately, those benefits have not always reached affected communities (Kendra and Gregory, 2019), requiring an intentional effort to more efficiently channel the NHE community's expert assessments and learnings back to affected communities and the diverse stakeholders supporting their recovery. Federally-mandated responses such as the FEMA Mitigation Assessment Teams (MATs) and NIST Disasters and Failure Studies efforts excel at conducting expert assessments that capture lessons learned from a disaster that are then shared with affected communities, policy makers, and other stakeholders to improve regulatory systems (USGS, 2000;Milano, 2015).…”

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StEER: A Community-Centered Approach to Assessing the Performance of the Built Environment after Natural Hazard Events

Kijewski-Correa

Roueche

Mosalam

et al. 2021

Front. Built Environ.

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Since its founding in 2018, the Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has worked to deepen the capacity of the Natural Hazards Engineering (NHE) community for coordinated and standardized assessments of the performance of the built environment following natural hazard events. This paper positions StEER within the field of engineering reconnaissance and the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI), outlining its organizational model for coordinated community-led responses to wind, seismic, and coastal hazard events. The paper’s examination of StEER’s event response workflow, engaging a range of hardware and delivering a suite of products, demonstrates StEER’s contributions in the areas of: workflow and data standardization, data reliability to enable field-observation-driven research & development, efficiency in data collection and dissemination to speed knowledge sharing, near-real- time open data access for enhanced coordination and transparency, and flexibility in collaboration modes to reduce the “overhead” associated with reconnaissance and foster broad NHE community engagement in event responses as part of field and virtual assessment structural teams (FAST/VAST). StEER’s creation of efficient systems to deliver well-documented, reliable data suitable for diverse re-uses as well as rapidly disseminated synopses of the impact of natural hazard events on the built environment provide a distinctive complement to existing post-event reconnaissance initiatives. The implementation of these policies, protocols and workflows is then demonstrated with case studies from five events illustrating StEER’s different field response strategies: the Nashville, Tennessee Tornadoes (2020) – a Hazard Gradient Survey; the Palu Earthquake and Tsunami in Indonesia (2018) – a Representative Performance Study; the Puerto Rico Earthquakes (2019/2020) – using Targeted Case Studies; Hurricane Laura (2020) – leveraging Rapid Surveys to enable virtual assessments; and Hurricane Dorian (2019) in the Bahamas – a Phased Multi-Hazard Investigation. The use of these strategies has enabled StEER to respond to 36 natural hazard events, involving over 150 different individuals to produce 45 published reports/briefings, over 5000 publicly available app-based structural assessments, and over 1600 km (1000 mi) of street-level panoramic imagery in its first 2years of operation.

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Sociology of Disasters

Wachtendorf

Meyer

2021

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

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Ethics in Disaster Research: A New Declaration

Cited by 10 publications

References 26 publications

Disaster Research “Methics”: Ethical and Methodological Considerations of Researching Disaster-Affected Populations

Disaster Research “Methics”: Ethical and Methodological Considerations of Researching Disaster-Affected Populations

StEER: A Community-Centered Approach to Assessing the Performance of the Built Environment after Natural Hazard Events

Sociology of Disasters

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