Planning: CRISES: Climate Adaptation Solutions Accelerator (CASA) through School-Community Hubs

规划：危机：通过学校社区中心的气候适应解决方案加速器（CASA）

• 批准号: 2334340
• 负责人: Simone Pulver
• 金额: $ 9.91万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 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: 2023-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2334340&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; CRISES; Climate; Adaptation; Solutions

Universities, planning agencies, and non-profit groups are pioneering initiatives to help historically underserved and vulnerable communities cope with environmental changes related to climate impacts, such as rising sea levels, storm-related flooding, longer heat waves, and increasing numbers of wildfires. However, there are daunting barriers to rapid and broad-based climate adaptation outreach. Traditional forms of soliciting public input often do not generate productive community engagement in historically underserved communities, and establishing trust through new community organizations can take years. Research demonstrates that public schools are neighborhood institutions that are trusted by communities and that schools have been used successfully to deliver other types of community services. This project is a novel research effort proposing to investigate how schools can function as hubs for fostering community climate adaptation in the historically underserved communities most vulnerable to climate change. The project supports partnerships with three California public schools to establish school-community climate adaptation hubs. Each hub uses school-based activities to support climate adaptation in a vulnerable neighborhood, to connect residents to innovative adaptation solutions specific to the local context, and to build relationships between community members relevant city and county adaptation planner. The activities under this grant build students’ capacity to develop climate solutions, improve school learning outcomes, foster community climate capabilities in historically underserved communities, and advance just and effective adaptation planning. Case studies analyses of the three school-community climate adaptation hubs support preparation of a proposal for a new center: the Climate Adaptation Solutions Accelerator (CASA) through School-Community Hubs. In the context of climate change adaptation, schools have already been mobilized as community centers during climate emergencies, but they can also support rapid and broad-based climate preparedness. Working through schools to connect communities and planning processes, CASA will build research capacity and infrastructure for the rapid and broad-based scaling of just and effective climate adaptation solutions. Exploratory research activities for CASA focus on three key areas. First, the project identifies existing and needed resources for mapping the intersecting climate risks facing each neighborhood that is home to one of California’s 10,000 K-12 public schools. These data are shared with schools and used to customize adaptation innovation resources. Second, the project develops a system for identifying innovative community-based climate adaptation initiatives being pioneered in California. Third, working in collaboration with three public schools and three climate adaptation innovators, the project investigates the opportunities and challenges of accelerating climate adaptation solutions through school-community hubs from the perspective of four stakeholder groups: historically underserved communities vulnerable to climate change, climate adaptation innovators interested in scaling their solutions activities, school administrative and teaching personnel, and city and county planners responsible for climate adaptation. Data collected via case study methods are analyzed to identify effective strategies for ascertaining community preferences and needs, key obstacles to scaling innovative adaptation solutions, potential organizational templates for school-community adaptation hubs, and the needs and preferences of local policymakers.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.

大学，规划机构和非营利组织是开创性的举措，旨在帮助历史上乏味和脆弱的社区应对与气候影响相关的环境变化，例如海平面上升，与风暴相关的洪水，更长的热浪和越来越多的野火。但是，迅速和广泛的气候适应宣传存在着艰巨的障碍。传统的征求公众意见的形式通常不会在历史悠久的社区中产生产品社区的参与，并且通过新的社区组织建立信任可能需要数年的时间。研究表明，公立学校是社区机构，这些机构被社区信任，并且已经成功地使用了学校来提供其他类型的社区服务。该项目是一项新的研究工作，建议研究学校如何充当枢纽，以促进最容易受到气候变化的历史悠久的社区中社区气候适应。该项目支持与三所加利福尼亚公立学校建立学校社区气候适应中心的合作伙伴关系。每个中心都使用基于学校的活动来支持脆弱社区中的气候适应，将居民与特定于当地环境的创新适应解决方案联系起来，并建立相关城市与县适应计划者之间的关系。这项赠款下的活动增强了学生开发气候解决方案，改善学校学习成果，在历史悠久服务不足的社区中培养社区气候能力的能力，并提高公正有效的适应计划。案例研究分析了三个学校社区气候适应枢纽支持新中心提案的准备：通过学校社区中心的气候适应解决方案加速器（CASA）。在气候变化适应的背景下，在气候紧急情况下，学校已经被动员为社区中心，但它们也可以支持快速和广泛的气候准备。 CASA通过学校工作以连接社区和规划过程，将建立研究能力和基础设施，以快速和广泛的规模公正，有效的气候适应解决方案。 CASA的探索性研究活动集中在三个关键领域。首先，该项目确定了现有的和所需的资源来绘制每个社区面临的相交气候风险，这是加利福尼亚州10,000 k-12的公立学校之一的所在地。这些数据与学校共享，并用于自定义适应性创新资源。其次，该项目开发了一个系统，用于确定在加利福尼亚州开创性的创新社区气候适应计划。第三，该项目与三所公立学校和三项气候适应创新合作，研究了加速的机会和挑战。从四个利益相关者群体的角度来看，通过学校社区枢纽的气候适应解决方案：历史上不容易受到气候变化的社区，感兴趣的气候适应性创新者，有望扩大其解决方案活动，学校行政和教学人员以及负责气候适应的城市和县计划者。分析通过案例研究收集的数据，以确定确定社区偏好和需求的有效策略，扩展创新适应解决方案的关键障碍，对学校社区适应枢纽的潜在组织模板以及本地策略者的需求和偏好，这些奖学金通过NSF的法定派别和构建的支持，对当地策略的需求和偏好进行了评估。 标准。