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.

社区复原力是社区抵御和减轻灾害压力的能力。它是洪水等自然灾害长期恢复的关键组成部分。社区复原力需要对灾害风险有最新的了解，并需要有效的灾前规划以及参与灾害应对的复杂参与者网络的协调。西弗吉尼亚州的每个县都面临着很高的洪水风险，而降水频率和强度的增加、基础设施老化以及社会经济的高度脆弱性使这些风险变得更加复杂。该项目是来自西弗吉尼亚州非营利组织和国家机构的民间参与者与具有社会科学、法律和地理信息科学 (GIS) 专业知识的大学研究人员之间的合作，这些机构在灾难准备、响应和恢复方面发挥着关键作用。该科学团队还拥有与西弗吉尼亚州易受洪水影响的社区合作的丰富经验。此次合作开发的研究产品的成果将是西弗吉尼亚州洪水抵御框架。免费提供的在线资源，包含由项目团队、各个利益相关者和最终用户共同创建的材料。该框架将支持居民、地方领导人、非营利组织和州官员努力提高西弗吉尼亚州社区的防洪能力。它将提高有关洪水风险、洪泛区管理和综合灾害准备的知识。该在线工具及其功能旨在提供一个可转移的模型，用于创建本地定制的灾害响应计划，广泛应用于阿巴拉契亚和美国的洪水易发社区。CIVIC 创新挑战赛是与美国能源部、美国能源部合作举办的。国土安全部和国家科学基金会。该项目的目标是： (1) 通过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情况以及他们对未来洪水的准备情况； (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) 利用参与式 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) 开展有关洪泛区管理和洪水保险的现场和虚拟培训； (5) 主办全州防洪研讨会并制定西弗吉尼亚州防洪灾前协调最佳实践指南； (6) 构建并启动一个在线实用程序，该实用程序在一个可访问的工具中包含所有项目输出。由于定量、定性和参与式 GIS 方法的创新集成，该项目产生了一种创建洪水风险可视化的新颖方法，与传统 GIS 和其他方法相比，该方法可以更好地将专家知识与社区需求结合起来。它还提供了一个可公开访问的框架和资源中心，以提高社区的防洪能力，并为社区参与的研究提供了一个可转移的模型，该模型以知识的共同生产为中心，为学术界建立脆弱社区抵御自然灾害的能力提供见解。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。