SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Community Resilience Micro-Bonds to Balance Cost and Social Equity among Stakeholders

SCC-CIVIC-PG 轨道 B：社区弹性微型债券，以平衡利益相关者之间的成本和社会公平

• 批准号: 2044013
• 负责人: Grace Yan
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Missouri University of Science and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-15 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2044013&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; PG; Track; Community

The US government invests $1 billion annually in hazard mitigation, but the resilience investment gap for the US is estimated to exceed $520 billion. The resilience gap across different communities and population groups is widening due to growing economic inequality in the US, which is further exacerbated by hazard events which turn into disasters. Therefore, finding innovative strategies and methods to fund socially equitable resilience improvements is essential for communities to thrive and survive. Catastrophe Bonds and Disaster Resilience Bonds are fairly mainstream topics and are used as a mechanism to raise money from investors for infrastructure improvement, but less attention is paid to social equity, a factor that underpins community resilience. A community is made up of more than the physical parts of the infrastructure and involves people, relationships, networks, all working as part of social institutions such as schools, hospitals, and service entities. Therefore, in this project, a new type of bonds, termed herein as a Coastal Community Resilience Micro-Bonds (CCRMB), will be implemented. In this project, innovative strategies and methods to fund socially equitable resilience improvements, which are essential for communities to thrive and survive, will be developed and implemented. Infrastructure-focused bonds are helpful for communities, but still leave a substantial gap in the disaster resilience bond paradigm, because repair of physical infrastructure is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for community resilience. The goal of this CIVIC Innovation Challenge grant is to promote the contributions of various sectors and financial agents of a community to invest in resilience initiatives and provide innovative mechanisms for them to do so. By leveraging the CCRMB, equitable recovery of both physical and social services and institutions can be achieved through staged and comprehensive planning and investment prior to disasters. To accomplish this requires interdisciplinary modeling of the multiple hazards experienced by coastal communities, and the city of Charleston, SC will be the focus community for implementation of the proposed CCRMB. This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program, Track B—Resilience to Natural Disasters—and is a collaboration between NSF and the Department of Homeland Security.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.

美国政府每年投资10亿美元用于缓解危险，但美国的弹性投资差距估计超过5200亿美元。由于美国的经济不平等日益增长，不同社区和人口群体之间的弹性差距正在扩大，这会因变成灾难的危险事件进一步加剧。因此，寻找创新的策略和方法来资助社会公平的弹性改善对于社区繁荣和生存至关重要。灾难债券和灾难弹性债券是相当主流的主题，被用作从投资者那里筹集资金以改善基础设施的机制，但对社会公平的关注较少，这是社区弹性的基础。一个社区由基础设施的实际部分组成，涉及人，人际关系，网络，所有这些都是社会机构，例如学校，医院和服务实体的一部分。因此，在这个项目中，将实施一种新型的债券，称本文称为沿海社区弹性微键（CCRMB）。在这个项目中，将制定和实施为社区蓬勃发展和生存至关重要的社会公平弹性改善的创新策略和方法。以基础设施为重点的债券对社区有帮助，但仍然在灾难弹性债券范围内留下很大的差距，因为修复物理基础设施是必要但对社区弹性的足够条件。这项公民创新挑战资助的目的是促进社区的各个部门和金融代理人的贡献，以投资弹性计划，并为他们提供创新的机制。通过利用CCRMB，可以通过在灾难之前进行，全面的计划和投资来实现物理和社会服务以及机构的公平恢复。为此，需要对沿海社区所经历的多重危害进行跨学科建模，而SC查尔斯顿市将成为实施拟议CCRMB的重点社区。该项目是对公民创新挑战计划，轨道B（对自然灾害的弥补）的回应，这是NSF与国土安全部之间的合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估，并通过评估来诚实地表示支持。