CIVIC-FA Track B: Creating the West Virginia Flood Resilience Framework for comprehensive disaster response and long-term community recovery

CIVIC-FA 轨道 B：创建西弗吉尼亚州防洪框架，以实现全面灾难响应和长期社区恢复

• 批准号: 2321985
• 负责人: Jamie Shinn
• 金额: $ 78.76万
• 依托单位: SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2321985&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CIVIC; FA; Track; Creating; West

Community resilience is the ability of communities to withstand and mitigate the stress of a disaster. It is a key component of long-term recovery from natural disasters such as floods. Community resilience requires up-to-date knowledge of disaster risk and effective pre-disaster planning and coordination of the complex network of actors involved in disaster response. Every county in West Virginia has a high risk of flooding and these risks are compounded by increasing frequency and intensity of precipitation, aging infrastructure, and high levels of socioeconomic vulnerability. This project is a collaboration between civic actors from non-profit organizations and state agencies in West Virginia that play key roles in disaster preparation, response, and recovery and university researchers with social science, legal, and geographic information science (GIS) expertise. The science team also has extensive experience working with flood-prone West Virginia communities. The result of research products developed in this collaboration will be the West Virginia Flood Resilience Framework. A freely available online resource containing materials co-created by the project team, various stakeholders, and the end users. This framework will support residents, local leaders, non-profits, and state officials in efforts to increase flood resilience for West Virginia communities. It will improve knowledge about flood risk, floodplain management, and comprehensive disaster preparation. The online tool and its capabilities are designed to provide a transferable model for creation of locally tailored disaster response plans with broad application to flood-prone communities across Appalachia and the United States.The CIVIC Innovation Challenge is a collaboration with Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, and the National Science Foundation. The objectives of this project are to: (1) Use a state-wide survey to assess how well West Virginia residents have recovered from past floods and how prepared they are for future floods; (2) Create flood risk indicator reports for all 286 floodplain communities in West Virginia; (3) Develop in-depth flood risk visualization tools for selected disadvantaged communities using Participatory GIS methods; (4) Conduct in-person and virtual trainings about floodplain management and flood insurance; (5) Host the Statewide Flood Resilience Symposium and create the Best Practices Guide for Pre-disaster Coordination of Flood Resilience in West Virginia; and (6) Build and launch the an online utility that contains all project outputs in one accessible tool. As a result of this innovative integration of quantitative, qualitative, and Participatory GIS methods, the project results in a novel approach to creating flood risk visualizations that better aligns expert knowledge with community needs than traditional GIS and other approaches. It also provides a publicly accessible framework and resource hub to increase community flood resilience, as well as delivers a transferable model for community-engaged research that centers co-production of knowledge with insights for scholarship on building resilience to natural disaster in vulnerable 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.

社区的韧性是社区承受和减轻灾难压力的能力。它是从洪水等自然灾害中长期恢复的关键组成部分。社区弹性需要了解灾难风险和有效的策划前计划以及参与灾难响应的复杂参与者网络的协调。西弗吉尼亚州的每个县都有洪水泛滥的高风险，这些风险的频率和强度增加，基础设施老化和高水平的社会经济脆弱性使这些风险更加复杂。该项目是来自非营利组织的公民参与者与西弗吉尼亚州的州机构之间的合作，该项目在灾难准备，反应和恢复中起着关键作用，以及与社会科学，法律和地理信息科学（GIS）专业知识有关的研究人员。科学团队还拥有与容易发生洪水的西弗吉尼亚社区合作的丰富经验。在此合作中开发的研究产品的结果将是西弗吉尼亚州的洪水弹性框架。由项目团队，各种利益相关者和最终用户共同创建的材料的免费在线资源。该框架将支持居民，地方领导人，非营利组织和州官员，以增加对西弗吉尼亚州社区的洪水弹性。它将改善有关洪水风险，洪泛区管理和全面灾难准备的知识。在线工具及其功能旨在为创建本地量身定制的灾难响应计划提供可转让的模型，并在阿巴拉契亚州和美国的易于洪水泛滥的社区中进行广泛应用。公民创新挑战挑战是与能源部，国土安全部和国家科学基金会的合作。该项目的目标是：（1）使用全州范围的调查来评估西弗吉尼亚州居民从过去的洪水中恢复的状况以及他们为将来的洪水做好准备； （2）为西弗吉尼亚州所有286个洪泛区社区创建洪水风险指标报告； （3）使用参与性GIS方法为选定的弱势社区开发深入的洪水风险可视化工具； （4）关于洪泛区管理和洪水保险的面对面和虚拟培训； （5）主持全州洪水弹性专题讨论会，并创建最佳实践指南，以预先在西弗吉尼亚州进行洪水弹性协调； （6）构建并启动一个在线实用程序，该实用程序包含一个可访问工具中的所有项目输出。由于定量，定性和参与性GIS方法的这种创新整合，该项目为创建洪水风险可视化的新方法提供了一种新颖的方法，该方法比传统的GIS和其他方法更好地使专家知识与社区需求保持一致。它还提供了一个公开访问的框架和资源枢纽，以提高社区洪水的弹性，并为社区参与研究提供了可转让的模型，中心将知识共同生产，并有见解的奖学金，以建立弱势社区的自然灾害的韧性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，反映了通过评估概念的支持，并予以评估的范围，并通过评估了基础，并构成了基金会的支持。