RAPID/Collaborative Research: Capacity Adjustment, Resilience and Information Sharing in a Network for Good (CARING)

快速/协作研究：公益网络中的能力调整、弹性和信息共享（CARING）

• 批准号: 1901694
• 负责人: Julie Ivy
• 金额: $ 2.05万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-11-01 至 2020-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1901694&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Collaborative; Research; Capacity; Adjustment

This Rapid Response Research (RAPID) project will support data collection efforts to capture the after-effects of Hurricane Florence on the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina (FBCENC). Food Banks operate a unique supply chain network to support people in hunger need in their service region. Natural disasters like hurricanes disrupt the normal operation of a food bank causing a sudden increase in demand, damaging sources of local supplies and upsetting the regular food delivery system. During Hurricane Florence, FBCENC operations were severely disrupted as more than 50 percent of their service network including two branch locations were affected by the storm. Immediately after the storm, FBCENC needed to respond to the disruption caused by Florence while keeping the regular business of satisfying dynamic hunger need. This RAPID NSF project will collect data on the challenges encountered by FBCENC after Hurricane Florence to provide insight for how nonprofit food distribution organizations can prepare, respond, and recover from disruptions to their network. This scientific research contribution thus supports NSF's mission to promote the progress of science and to advance our national welfare. In this case, the benefits will be insights to improve management of humanitarian logistics post disaster which can save lives and reduce economic losses. This RAPID project will collect time sensitive operational information and data related to a food bank network's preparation, incident management and recovery for Hurricane Florence. The research objectives of the project are to: (i) study the decisions taken by a food bank having its operational network undergoing a natural disaster; (ii) scrutinize the responses of the human components (donors, food bank personnel, agency owners, clients) in the disrupted network; (iii) characterize the impact on demand and supply before, during and after a disaster; (iv) identify the optimal trade-offs between equity, efficiency, and effectiveness for disaster preparation and recovery; and (v) distinguish the disaster-related parameters impacting food demand. The project will facilitate the study of how the differences in organizational characteristics and structure affect the ability of food banks (and agencies) to be resilient to the impact of disasters like hurricanes. This project will collect the data necessary to develop smart recommendations for disaster preparedness and response based on field data collected from a large-scale network disruptive event.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该快速响应研究 (RAPID) 项目将支持数据收集工作，以了解飓风佛罗伦萨对北卡罗来纳州中部和东部食品银行 (FBCENC) 的影响。食品银行运营着独特的供应链网络，为其服务区域内有饥饿需要的人们提供支持。飓风等自然灾害扰乱了食品银行的正常运作，导致需求突然增加，破坏了当地供应来源并扰乱了常规食品配送系统。佛罗伦萨飓风期间，FBCENC 的运营受到严重干扰，超过 50% 的服务网络（包括两个分支机构）受到风暴影响。风暴过后，FBCENC 需要立即应对佛罗伦萨造成的破坏，同时保持满足动态饥饿需求的正常业务。该 RAPID NSF 项目将收集 FBCENC 在飓风佛罗伦萨后遇到的挑战的数据，以深入了解非营利食品配送组织如何准备、应对网络中断并从中恢复。因此，这项科学研究贡献支持了 NSF 促进科学进步和增进国家福祉的使命。在这种情况下，好处将是改善灾后人道主义物流管理的见解，从而挽救生命并减少经济损失。该 RAPID 项目将收集与佛罗伦斯飓风食品银行网络准备、事件管理和恢复相关的时间敏感的运营信息和数据。该项目的研究目标是：（i）研究其运营网络遭受自然灾害的食品银行所做出的决定； (ii) 审查受干扰网络中人员（捐助者、食品银行工作人员、机构所有者、客户）的反应； (iii) 描述灾害发生前、发生期间和发生后对需求和供应的影响； (iv) 确定备灾和恢复的公平、效率和有效性之间的最佳权衡； (v) 区分影响粮食需求的灾害相关参数。该项目将促进研究组织特征和结构的差异如何影响食品银行（和机构）抵御飓风等灾害影响的能力。该项目将收集必要的数据，根据从大规模网络中断事件中收集的现场数据，制定灾难准备和响应的智能建议。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，被认为值得支持以及更广泛的影响审查标准。