Institutional Review Board Protocol 2015 - 2020

In early October 2016, Hurricane Matthew crossed North Carolina as a Category 1 storm, with some areas receiving 0.38 m to 0.46 m (15 to 18 in) of rainfall on already saturated soil. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, teamed with researchers from NIST’s Engineering Laboratory (Disaster and Failure Studies Program, Community Resilience Group, and the Applied Economics Office) to conduct a quick response field study to document the initial damage and disruption in the small city of Lumberton, NC caused by the flooding they experienced from the Lumber River. Lumberton is a racially diverse community with higher than average poverty and unemployment rates, a typical civil infrastructure for a city of 22,000 residents, and possesses a small-community structured governance. The November 2016 field study was the first of a series in a longitudinal study to document and better understand the impact that the riverine flooding had on Lumberton and its subsequent recovery. This type of longitudinal research is critical to better understand community resilience and ultimately provide data and insight into making U.S. communities more resilient to natural hazards.
This research is the first application of a combined engineering-social science field study protocol that provides a quantitative linkage between flood damage and socioeconomics, including race, ethnicity, income, tenancy status, and education level. The planning documents archived comprise the field study’s housing unit-level surveys — including the damage-based and household disruption-based field study instruments — and business-level surveys for each wave of data collection in the longitudinal study. Material collected are designed to support the Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE). IN-CORE is the primary deliverable of the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning a NIST-funded Center of Excellence. For more details visit http://resilience.colostate.edu/in_core.shtml
The perishable nature of natural hazards research requires that teams can quickly organize their efforts before entering the field. This archive is designed to help future research teams with example documents that may help reduce the amount of time needed to invest in project development.
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