Collaborative Research: Examining the Vulnerability and Recovery of Small Farms to Natural Hazards and the Impact to Rural Community Resilience

合作研究：检查小农场对自然灾害的脆弱性和恢复以及对农村社区复原力的影响

• 批准号: 2053545
• 负责人: Maria Watson
• 金额: $ 11.81万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 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: 2021-11-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2053545&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Examining; Vulnerability; Recovery

This Disaster Resilience Research Grant (DRRG) project contributes to the advancement of national health, prosperity and welfare by creating new knowledge on disaster recovery for the agricultural industry. Despite the criticality of agriculture to U.S. and global food production, the lack of economic diversity and prevalence of agriculture in many rural areas, particularly in the central US, is theorized to be a major contributor to low disaster resilience. Resilience is a complex function of socio-economic dimensions and the built environment; and the population, economics, and physical infrastructure that comprise agricultural regions are distinct from the urban and suburban areas that are the common focus of most disaster and community resilience studies. This research generates a fundamental understanding of the resilience of farms and agriculture-prevalent rural communities in the face of severe windstorms, which will be of broad benefit to society and to national resilience. The research team will identify, evaluate, and recommend actions to enhance resilience of farms. To maximize the impact of these findings, the team will partner with the Extension Disaster Education Network for outreach and technology transfer. Implementation of these mitigation measures can transform the disaster resilience of rural and agricultural regions, safeguarding the lives of citizens, regional and national economies, and global food production. The long-term goal of this research is to enhance the resilience of rural communities to natural hazards, which requires state-of-the-art research on the infrastructure that support farm operations, the recovery processes of individual farms, and the interaction of individual farms within the regional agricultural economy. As a first step towards enhancing rural resilience, the interdisciplinary team will conduct a three-year research project carefully tracking resilience from hazards to structures to farms to communities. The project is characterized by two primary goals. The first goal is to generate a fundamental understanding of the vulnerability and recovery of farms following windstorms through longitudinal reconnaissance of impacted agricultural communities, surveys of impacted farmers, correlation of hazard intensity with infrastructure response, and the examination of the linkages between recovery of individual infrastructure with farm-level recovery. The second goal is to develop and validate a risk-informed resilience assessment framework comprised of a farm-level resilience factors and community-level economic analyses to support decisions on business continuity and infrastructure investment for farms and the broader agriculture-prevalent rural communities.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.

这项灾难恢复研究补助金（DRRG）项目通过为农业产业创造有关灾难恢复的新知识，为国家健康，繁荣和福利的发展做出了贡献。尽管农业对美国和全球粮食生产的重要性至关重要，但理论上，许多农村地区（尤其是在美国中部）缺乏经济多样性和农业的普遍性，这是导致低灾难恢复能力的主要贡献者。弹性是社会经济维度和建筑环境的复杂功能。构成农业地区的人口，经济学和身体基础设施与大多数灾难和社区弹性研究的普遍重点的城市和郊区不同。这项研究对面对严重的暴风雨的农场和农业居民社区的韧性产生了基本的了解，这将对社会和民族的韧性有很大的好处。研究小组将确定，评估并建议采取行动以增强农场的弹性。为了最大程度地提高这些发现的影响，该团队将与扩展灾难教育网络合作，用于推广和技术转移。这些缓解措施的实施可以改变农村和农业地区的灾难韧性，维护公民，地区和国民经济的生活以及全球粮食生产。这项研究的长期目标是增强农村社区对自然危害的韧性，这需要对支持农场业务的基础设施，单个农场的恢复过程以及区域农业经济中各个农场的相互作用的最先进的研究。作为提高农村韧性的第一步，跨学科团队将进行为期三年的研究项目，仔细跟踪从危害到建筑物到农场到社区的韧性。该项目的特征是两个主要目标。第一个目标是通过对受影响的农业社区的纵向侦察，影响农民的调查，危险强度与基础设施响应的相关性以及对单个基础结构与农场基础结构之间的联系之间的检查，从而产生对风暴后农场脆弱性和恢复的基本了解。第二个目标是开发和验证由农场级别的复原力因素和社区级别的经济分析组成的风险信息，以支持对农场的业务连续性和基础设施投资的决策，以及更广泛的农业奖励，这反映了NSF的智力传统和构建范围的范围。审查标准。