SAI: Enhancing Flood Resilience in Coastal Urban Communities

SAI：增强沿海城市社区的防洪能力

• 批准号: 2323312
• 负责人: Dominic Boyer
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 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: 2023-09-15 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2323312&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SAI; Enhancing; Flood; Resilience; Coastal; SAI; Enhancing; Flood; Resilience; Coastal

Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF Program seeking to stimulate human-centered fundamental and potentially transformative research that strengthens America’s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad quality of life improvement. Strong, reliable, and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, strengthens communities, promotes equal opportunity, protects the natural environment, enhances national security, and fuels American leadership. To achieve these goals requires expertise from across the science and engineering disciplines. SAI focuses on how knowledge of human reasoning and decision-making, governance, and social and cultural processes enables the building and maintenance of effective infrastructure that improves lives and society and builds on advances in technology and engineering.Coastal cities across the world face new frequencies and intensities of risk associated with storms and flooding because of a changing climate. This is particularly true in the United States, which is expected to face above-average risks for damage to coastal property and infrastructure driven by sea level rise and storm surge. Coastal cities need to prepare for these challenges by boosting the resilience of both physical and social infrastructures. This SAI project investigates how engaging communities directly in stormwater management could help to make property and infrastructures more resilient. A special focus of the research is how coastal communities can make the best use of green stormwater infrastructure, where natural processes help communities to manage stormwater more effectively.The research explores two interventions to improve upon conventional stormwater infrastructure approaches. One is to increase civic engagement in infrastructural design, implementation, and maintenance processes (infrastructural citizenship). This improves stormwater infrastructure design by harnessing local knowledge of flood risks and engaging a broader range of stakeholders in the imagination of possible social solutions. The other is to utilize the potential of green stormwater infrastructure techniques, such as rain gardens, bioswales, and green detention/retention basins. This creates more frequent, affordable, and substantive opportunities for civic engagement than conventional stormwater infrastructure. With a convergence of expertise in anthropology, urban design, and civil engineering, the project includes field research, participatory design work and hydrological impact analysis in three demographically distinct, flood prone Houston, TX neighborhoods. The project aims to produce innovative portable and actionable urban designs that can guide stormwater infrastructure development processes in Houston, TX and beyond.This award is supported by the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences, the Directorate for Geosciences, and the Directorate for Engineering.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.

加强美国基础设施（SAI）是一项NSF计划，旨在刺激以人为本的基本和潜在的变革性研究，从而增强美国的基础设施。有效的基础设施为社会经济活力和广泛的生活质量改善奠定了坚实的基础。强大，可靠和有效的基础设施刺激了私营部门的创新，发展经济，创造就业机会，使公共部门服务提供效率更高，增强社区，促进平等的机会，保护自然环境，增强国家安全，并为美国的领导燃料。为了实现这些目标，需要从整个科学和工程学科的专业知识。 SAI专注于对人类推理和决策，治理以及社会和文化过程的了解如何使建立和维护有效的基础设施，以改善生活和社会，并以技术和工程的进步为基础。世界各地的城市都面临着与风险和洪水相关的新频率以及由于气氛而变化的风险和洪水相关的强度。在美国尤其如此，这预计将面临海平面上升和风暴潮所驱动的沿海财产和基础设施损害的风险高于平均水平的风险。沿海城市需要通过提高身体和社会基础设施的韧性来为这些挑战做准备。这个SAI项目调查了如何直接参与雨水管理中的社区，可以使财产和基础设施更具抵抗力。这项研究的一个特别重点是沿海社区如何充分利用绿色雨水基础设施，在这种基础设施中，自然过程可以帮助社区更有效地管理雨水。该研究探讨了两种干预措施，以改善传统的雨水基础设施方法。一种是提高基础设施设计，实施和维护过程（基础设施公民身份）的公民参与。这通过利用当地的洪水风险知识并吸引更多的利益相关者来想象可能的社会解决方案，从而改善了雨水基础设施设计。另一个是利用绿色雨水基础设施技术的潜力，例如雨水花园，生物厂和绿色拘留/保留鲈鱼。这比传统的雨水基础设施更频繁地创造公民参与的机会。通过人类学，城市设计和土木工程专家的融合，该项目包括现场研究，参与设计工作和水文影响分析，在三个人口统计学上，洪水泛滥，洪水泛滥的休斯顿，德克萨斯州。该项目旨在生产创新的便携式和可操作的城市设计，以指导雨水基础设施的发展过程，在德克萨斯州休斯顿及其他地区。该奖项得到社会，行为和经济和经济（SBE）科学局的支持，该奖项由地理学局和工程学裁定，并依靠NSF的构建范围来支持。更广泛的影响审查标准。