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DOI	10.1007/s10584-020-02796-1
	Coping strategies and trajectories of life satisfaction among households in a voluntary planned program of relocation from a flood-risk area
	Seebauer S.; Winkler C.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0165-0009
起始页码	2219
结束页码	2239
卷号	162 期号:4
英文摘要	Relocation from areas at risk is a highly effective, yet contested response to natural hazards. Affected households must deal with multiple long-term impacts on their livelihoods and communities. This study explores coping processes of households subjected to a voluntary home buyout scheme in the Danube floodplain in Austria. In a longitudinal study with three yearly waves of semi-structured qualitative interviews, 79 households were monitored over the decision-making, formation, implementation, and stabilization phases of the relocation process. Coping applies not just to those who leave but also to those who stay. Cognitive restructuring, opposition, problem solving, rumination, and escape/avoidance emerge as main coping strategies. These strategies take different characteristics depending on life circumstances and the phase of the relocation process. Most households follow a life satisfaction trajectory of resilience, recovery, or delayed recovery; they either maintain normal functioning or return to it within 5 years after announcement of the relocation program. The relocation stressor plays a minor role compared with family, job, health, and partnership, unless the relocation coincides with a personal crisis that already overstretches coping capacities. Few households exhibit a trajectory of chronic distress and remain deadlocked in social withdrawal or rumination of the lost former residence. Besides material impacts, households show a broad array of psychosocial reactions that need accounting for by cost-benefit assessments of relocation programs. Program managers should encourage positive coping strategies (e.g., support problem solving by formulation of early, structured and realistic plans) and discourage negative strategies (e.g., pre-empt opposition with citizen participation). © 2020, Springer Nature B.V.
英文关键词	Household recovery; Managed retreat; Psychosocial wellbeing; Quality of life; Resettlement; Resilience
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Artificial life; Cost benefit analysis; Decision making; Trajectories; Citizen participation; Coping strategies; Delayed recoveries; Long-term impacts; Longitudinal study; Material impacts; Qualitative interviews; Semi-structured; Floods
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147030
作者单位	JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, LIFE – Institute for Climate, Energy and Society, Graz, Austria
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Seebauer S.,Winkler C.. Coping strategies and trajectories of life satisfaction among households in a voluntary planned program of relocation from a flood-risk area[J],2020,162(4).
APA	Seebauer S.,&Winkler C..(2020).Coping strategies and trajectories of life satisfaction among households in a voluntary planned program of relocation from a flood-risk area.Climatic Change,162(4).
MLA	Seebauer S.,et al."Coping strategies and trajectories of life satisfaction among households in a voluntary planned program of relocation from a flood-risk area".Climatic Change 162.4(2020).