@article{ref1,
title="Temporal vulnerability and the post-disaster 'Window of Opportunity to Woo:' a case study of an African-American floodplain neighborhood after Hurricane Floyd in North Carolina",
journal="Human ecology: an interdisciplinary journal",
year="2017",
author="De Vries, Daniel H.",
volume="45",
number="4",
pages="437-448",
abstract="After major flooding associated with Hurricane Floyd (1999) in North Carolina, mitigation managers seized upon the &quot;window of opportunity&quot; to woo residents to accept residential buyout offers despite sizable community resistance. I present a theoretical explanation of how post-crisis periods turn into &quot;opportunities&quot; based on a temporal referential theory that complements alternative explanations based on temporal coincidence, panarchy, and shock-doctrine theories. <br><br>RESULTS from fieldwork conducted from 2002 to 2004 illustrate how several temporal influences compromised collective calibration of &quot;normalcy&quot; in local cultural models, leading to an especially heightened vulnerability to collective surprise. Four factors particularly influenced this temporal vulnerability: 1) epistemological uncertainty of floodplain dynamics due to colonization; 2) cultural practices that maintained a casual amnesia; 3) meaning attributed to stochastic timing of floods; and 4) competitive impact of referential flood baseline attractors.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0300-7839",
doi="10.1007/s10745-017-9915-4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-017-9915-4"
}