Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2023.2224956
K. Stephens, Russell Blessing, Tara Tasuji, M. McGlone, Laura N. Stearns, Yoo-Jik Lee, S. Brody
{"title":"Investigating ways to better communicate flood risk: the tight coupling of perceived flood map usability and accuracy","authors":"K. Stephens, Russell Blessing, Tara Tasuji, M. McGlone, Laura N. Stearns, Yoo-Jik Lee, S. Brody","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2023.2224956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2023.2224956","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80492165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2023.2220947
Abdul Muqeet Shah, I. Rana, Rida Hameed Lodhi, F. A. Najam, Ather Ali
{"title":"Evacuation decision making and risk perception: flooded rural communities in Pakistan","authors":"Abdul Muqeet Shah, I. Rana, Rida Hameed Lodhi, F. A. Najam, Ather Ali","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2023.2220947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2023.2220947","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78666443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2023.2220948
Lei Sun, Xingyu Liu
{"title":"Identifying different frames of resilience–vulnerability nexus in disaster study","authors":"Lei Sun, Xingyu Liu","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2023.2220948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2023.2220948","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80808034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-21DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2023.2190871
M. Rezaldi, Ambar Yoganingrum, N. Hanifa, Abdurrakhman Prasetyadi, W. Kongko, Y. Kaneda
ABSTRACT Natural warning signs and self-evacuation are essential to save lives in the event of a tsunami caused by an earthquake, especially if there are no clear early signs for example ground shaking. This paper explores the participants’ experiences focusing on how participants’ perceptions and responses to what they felt, saw or heard before seeing the first wave of 2006 tsunami in Cilacap, Indonesia. Using a phenomenological approach, this paper analyzes the stories of ten participants in three sub-districts, namely Cilacap Selatan, covering islands of Nusakambangan, Adipala, and Binangun. The tsunami was caused by a slow-motion earthquake, so people did not feel the ground shaking. The participants did not recognise natural signs of a tsunami, so they ignored them. Before seeing the first wave, the witness heard sound of explosions, extreme low tide, unusual animal behavior around, the appearance of a large number of marine products – lobsters (Crustacea) and sea shells (Mytilus spp.), and unusual color and shape of the waves. These signs should be socialised to the community in tsunami-prone areas, thereby increasing community’s disaster mitigation capacity. This study presents some natural warning signs that have not been reported by previous studies.
{"title":"The natural warning signs of tsunami earthquake in Indonesia: case of the 2006 Cilacap event","authors":"M. Rezaldi, Ambar Yoganingrum, N. Hanifa, Abdurrakhman Prasetyadi, W. Kongko, Y. Kaneda","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2023.2190871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2023.2190871","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Natural warning signs and self-evacuation are essential to save lives in the event of a tsunami caused by an earthquake, especially if there are no clear early signs for example ground shaking. This paper explores the participants’ experiences focusing on how participants’ perceptions and responses to what they felt, saw or heard before seeing the first wave of 2006 tsunami in Cilacap, Indonesia. Using a phenomenological approach, this paper analyzes the stories of ten participants in three sub-districts, namely Cilacap Selatan, covering islands of Nusakambangan, Adipala, and Binangun. The tsunami was caused by a slow-motion earthquake, so people did not feel the ground shaking. The participants did not recognise natural signs of a tsunami, so they ignored them. Before seeing the first wave, the witness heard sound of explosions, extreme low tide, unusual animal behavior around, the appearance of a large number of marine products – lobsters (Crustacea) and sea shells (Mytilus spp.), and unusual color and shape of the waves. These signs should be socialised to the community in tsunami-prone areas, thereby increasing community’s disaster mitigation capacity. This study presents some natural warning signs that have not been reported by previous studies.","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":"110 1","pages":"456 - 474"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83933034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-21DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2023.2189687
Michael Molloy, Eric Nost, Megan A. Bledsoe
{"title":"Is adaptation planning effective and for whom? The case of Louisiana’s 2017 Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast","authors":"Michael Molloy, Eric Nost, Megan A. Bledsoe","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2023.2189687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2023.2189687","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90378044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2023.2189088
Peter Kamstra, B. Cook, Jasmine C. Lawes, Hannah L. M. Calverley
ABSTRACT Despite reduced drowning incidence at lifeguard patrolled beaches, 71 drowning fatalities occurred on Australian beaches last year (2021–2022). Prevailing drowning prevention practices on beaches include patrolling lifeguards positioning safety flags in less hazardous locations and encouraging beachgoers to swim between them. Such methods represent a ‘deficit based’ approach to community engagement, in which experts determine acceptable behaviours and encourage adherence using a one-way transfer of information. Deficit based approaches can be useful, but participatory forms of community engagement are hypothesised to support learning that can transfer to other locations and through non-participants’ social networks. Using a lifeguard patrolled beach in Gerroa, Australia as a case study, we employed a ‘relationship building’ methodology to explore whether engagements on the beach can prompt transformational learning and whether such learning spills over to non-participants or to unpatrolled locations. Findings from 49 survey-interview engagements and 15 follow-up interviews suggest that building relationships with researchers is an enjoyable form of community engagement that contributes to learning about risk; simultaneously, findings suggest that learning can transform beachgoers’ intentions and practices at unpatrolled beaches. This paper provides a broadened theoretical and empirical model of community engagement aimed at beach drowning risk prevention via relationship building. Key policy highlights Engaging beachgoers via relationship building facilitates learning about beach risk, resulting in spillover effects to non-participants and to (unpatrolled) contexts. Engaging communities through dialogue is more likely to have a lasting influence on behaviours compared with deficit-based forms of engagement. Spillover effects to children, family, and friends provide evidence of who participatory research can have a ‘successful’ impact on. Experienced beachgoers discussing the engagement with others demonstrates how relationship building creates opportunities for experienced participants to demonstrate care for others. This study provides a broadened theoretical and empirical model of engagement aimed at beach drowning risk prevention via relationship building.
{"title":"Engaging beachgoers for drowning prevention: the spillover effects on non-participants","authors":"Peter Kamstra, B. Cook, Jasmine C. Lawes, Hannah L. M. Calverley","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2023.2189088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2023.2189088","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite reduced drowning incidence at lifeguard patrolled beaches, 71 drowning fatalities occurred on Australian beaches last year (2021–2022). Prevailing drowning prevention practices on beaches include patrolling lifeguards positioning safety flags in less hazardous locations and encouraging beachgoers to swim between them. Such methods represent a ‘deficit based’ approach to community engagement, in which experts determine acceptable behaviours and encourage adherence using a one-way transfer of information. Deficit based approaches can be useful, but participatory forms of community engagement are hypothesised to support learning that can transfer to other locations and through non-participants’ social networks. Using a lifeguard patrolled beach in Gerroa, Australia as a case study, we employed a ‘relationship building’ methodology to explore whether engagements on the beach can prompt transformational learning and whether such learning spills over to non-participants or to unpatrolled locations. Findings from 49 survey-interview engagements and 15 follow-up interviews suggest that building relationships with researchers is an enjoyable form of community engagement that contributes to learning about risk; simultaneously, findings suggest that learning can transform beachgoers’ intentions and practices at unpatrolled beaches. This paper provides a broadened theoretical and empirical model of community engagement aimed at beach drowning risk prevention via relationship building. Key policy highlights Engaging beachgoers via relationship building facilitates learning about beach risk, resulting in spillover effects to non-participants and to (unpatrolled) contexts. Engaging communities through dialogue is more likely to have a lasting influence on behaviours compared with deficit-based forms of engagement. Spillover effects to children, family, and friends provide evidence of who participatory research can have a ‘successful’ impact on. Experienced beachgoers discussing the engagement with others demonstrates how relationship building creates opportunities for experienced participants to demonstrate care for others. This study provides a broadened theoretical and empirical model of engagement aimed at beach drowning risk prevention via relationship building.","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":"24 1","pages":"437 - 455"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72596136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2023.2183177
Kabila Abass, R. Gyasi, Richard Serbeh, B. Obeng
ABSTRACT Extant research has linked flooding with mental distress (MD) among flood-prone populations, but the mechanisms underlying this association remain largely unknown. This paper examines the association of flood stressors with MD among households in flood-prone communities in Ghana and estimates whether flood risk perceptions mediated the association. The study involved 767 household heads aged ≥20 years [mean = 47.3 ± 13.7); males = 61.4%]. Flood stressors were assessed using a 15-item Flood Stress-related Scale, while the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) was used to assess MD. Linear regression-based mediation analysis using Hayes’ PROCESS macro was performed to assess the indirect effect of flood stressors with MD through flood risk perceptions. After adjusting for potential confounders, flood stressors were significantly linked with higher risks of MD (β = .060-.080, p < .001). The mediation and bootstrapping analyses suggested that flood health risk perception partially mediated and accounted for 26.7% of the relationship between flood stressors and MD (direct effect: β = .060, Boots 95%CI: .041-.079; indirect effect: β = .022, Boots 95%CI: .015-.031; total effect: β = .082, Boots 95%CI: .063-.101). The link between flood stressors and MD risk is explained partially by flood health risk perception. Knowledge of households' flood risk perception is therefore critical for effectively managing the effects of flood stressors on MD. Policy Highlights The mechanisms underlying flood stressors-mental distress (MD) association remain largely unknown. Flood stressors were significantly associated with higher risks of MD. Flood stressors and MD risk linkage was partially explained by the health-related risk perception. Timely psychological interventional services to flood-prone households via improvement in their health-risk perceptions is desirable.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2023.2183811
Michael Molloy, Audrey Joslin
ABSTRACT Government planning is an integral part of shaping decision-making about adaptation to environmental change. It affects the resources available for adaptation, and in turn enables or constrains the choices available to populations pursuing adaptation. In this article, we introduce a novel adaptation framework that supports the analysis of adaptation planning documents to identify patterns and trends in priorities among adaptation strategies. In turn, the framework can be applied to evaluate alignment with adaptation plan objectives and to compare plans across multiple scales of government. We apply this framework to analyse adaptation plans in coastal Louisiana, a region experiencing severe environmental change that threatens biodiversity and local livelihoods. Through our adaptation framework, we examine how the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana shapes the trajectory of environmental change adaptation in coastal Louisiana across scales of government. We find that techno-managerial solutions dominate the adaptation strategies proposed in the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s 2017 State of Louisiana’s Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast, and that the agency’s main adaptation strategies neglect to support of socio-economic and cultural adaptation approaches despite listing them as major objectives.
{"title":"Applying a framework of environmental and climate change adaptation to evaluate government intervention in coastal Louisiana","authors":"Michael Molloy, Audrey Joslin","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2023.2183811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2023.2183811","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Government planning is an integral part of shaping decision-making about adaptation to environmental change. It affects the resources available for adaptation, and in turn enables or constrains the choices available to populations pursuing adaptation. In this article, we introduce a novel adaptation framework that supports the analysis of adaptation planning documents to identify patterns and trends in priorities among adaptation strategies. In turn, the framework can be applied to evaluate alignment with adaptation plan objectives and to compare plans across multiple scales of government. We apply this framework to analyse adaptation plans in coastal Louisiana, a region experiencing severe environmental change that threatens biodiversity and local livelihoods. Through our adaptation framework, we examine how the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana shapes the trajectory of environmental change adaptation in coastal Louisiana across scales of government. We find that techno-managerial solutions dominate the adaptation strategies proposed in the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s 2017 State of Louisiana’s Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast, and that the agency’s main adaptation strategies neglect to support of socio-economic and cultural adaptation approaches despite listing them as major objectives.","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":"47 1","pages":"421 - 436"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89554175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2023.2170314
Yi Lu, Qian Yang, J. Peng, Li Lu
ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are continuing to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic as it moves into its third year. The ‘dynamic COVID-zero’ policy adopted in China from August 2021 to the end of 2022 has inevitably put pressure on local SMEs, which makes the situation in Chinese SMEs not only different from the situation during the initial outbreak, but also unique in the world. In July 2022, an online follow-up questionnaire was conducted on SMEs in Sichuan Province to assess their performances, pressures, and requirements in this particular period of time and compare the results with our findings from 2020 to reveal the longer-term impacts of COVID-19. It was found that: (1) most SMEs had poorer revenue and profit performances; (2) while the pressure of increasing production cost and declining market demand has increased significantly, normal productions and operations are no longer as strongly disturbed; (3) SMEs require more financial support but less operating and employment subsidies; (4) and the SMEs’ overall confidence has recovered and the willingness to invest is rising. The situation in different sectors was also analysed and compared, with the results revealing problems within the tertiary industrial sector (wholesale and retail businesses).
{"title":"Longer-term impacts of COVID-19 on SMEs: follow-up research in Sichuan Province, China","authors":"Yi Lu, Qian Yang, J. Peng, Li Lu","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2023.2170314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2023.2170314","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are continuing to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic as it moves into its third year. The ‘dynamic COVID-zero’ policy adopted in China from August 2021 to the end of 2022 has inevitably put pressure on local SMEs, which makes the situation in Chinese SMEs not only different from the situation during the initial outbreak, but also unique in the world. In July 2022, an online follow-up questionnaire was conducted on SMEs in Sichuan Province to assess their performances, pressures, and requirements in this particular period of time and compare the results with our findings from 2020 to reveal the longer-term impacts of COVID-19. It was found that: (1) most SMEs had poorer revenue and profit performances; (2) while the pressure of increasing production cost and declining market demand has increased significantly, normal productions and operations are no longer as strongly disturbed; (3) SMEs require more financial support but less operating and employment subsidies; (4) and the SMEs’ overall confidence has recovered and the willingness to invest is rising. The situation in different sectors was also analysed and compared, with the results revealing problems within the tertiary industrial sector (wholesale and retail businesses).","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":"261 1","pages":"386 - 401"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74517784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2022.2149454
Yeeko Kisira, Martin Ssennoga, F. Mugagga, D. Nadhomi
ABSTRACT Adverse impacts on persons with disabilities occur disproportionately during landslide hazards in a rugged landscape. Coping with climate-induced hazards to boost disaster resilience among persons with disabilities is directly influenced by the deepseated power relations in society. The study explored coping mechanisms and assessed their perceived effectiveness in boosting resilience of persons with disabilities in the Ugandan fragile ecosystem. A cross-sectional design with 55 in-depth household interviews, seven key informant interviews and two focus group discussions were used. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive statistical methods. Content analysis was carried out for qualitative data. Whereas persons with disabilities highly opted for relocation/resettlement, it was also perceived as less effective in boosting landslide resilience. Self-help groups, use of assistive devices, access to early warning, and participation in disaster training and recovery plans in their order of importance-built resilience effectively. In conclusion, Persons with disabilities try to cope with landslide hazards amidst unfavourable power relations and social exclusion. We recommend increased inclusive disaster preparedness and recovery to boost access to information on disaster training, and socio-economic support services. This will directly stimulate the infrastructural, participation, and functioning capacity thus increasing their resilience to Landslides.
{"title":"Persons with disabilities and resilience: coping with environmental hazards case of landslides in Mount Elgon region, Uganda","authors":"Yeeko Kisira, Martin Ssennoga, F. Mugagga, D. Nadhomi","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2022.2149454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2022.2149454","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Adverse impacts on persons with disabilities occur disproportionately during landslide hazards in a rugged landscape. Coping with climate-induced hazards to boost disaster resilience among persons with disabilities is directly influenced by the deepseated power relations in society. The study explored coping mechanisms and assessed their perceived effectiveness in boosting resilience of persons with disabilities in the Ugandan fragile ecosystem. A cross-sectional design with 55 in-depth household interviews, seven key informant interviews and two focus group discussions were used. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive statistical methods. Content analysis was carried out for qualitative data. Whereas persons with disabilities highly opted for relocation/resettlement, it was also perceived as less effective in boosting landslide resilience. Self-help groups, use of assistive devices, access to early warning, and participation in disaster training and recovery plans in their order of importance-built resilience effectively. In conclusion, Persons with disabilities try to cope with landslide hazards amidst unfavourable power relations and social exclusion. We recommend increased inclusive disaster preparedness and recovery to boost access to information on disaster training, and socio-economic support services. This will directly stimulate the infrastructural, participation, and functioning capacity thus increasing their resilience to Landslides.","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":"28 1","pages":"349 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87351818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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