SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Rural Resiliency Hubs: A Planning Approach to Addressing the Resiliency Divide

SCC-CIVIC-PG 轨道 B：农村防灾中心：解决防灾鸿沟的规划方法

• 批准号: 2041039
• 负责人: Marcia Mardis
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: Florida State 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: 2021-01-15 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2041039&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; PG; Track; Rural

Public libraries provide rural citizens with critical information, services, and support to withstand adversity. Numerous local, state, and federal agencies use public libraries as aid distribution points, volunteer reception centers, shelters, and temporary office spaces. While disaster resilience research has focused primarily on urban settings, rural environments have different, understudied, characteristics. The considerable geographical variability in rural areas has also made the “resilience divide” apparent in natural disasters’ aftermath, such as 2018’s Hurricane Michael. As such, the goal of this project is to study and develop emergency plans that fit distinct needs of rural communities, guided by a central hypothesis: Understanding interdependencies among the community actors, population needs, environment, information, and infrastructure that foster emergency operations efficacy in rural communities can lead to the successful strategies and policies for optimizing multi-faceted disaster response. To address the resilience divide, this project will explore three research questions: (1) What interactions between community actors, population needs, environment, information, and infrastructure foster disaster resilience in rural communities? Additionally, how do rural stakeholders and residents view public libraries in this system? (2) How can the interdependency and interconnectivity between social, spatial, environmental, and infrastructural factors in community resilience be measured and modeled to reveal the divide in resilience for rural communities? (3) How can this resiliency divide be bridged by using rural libraries as resiliency hubs for natural disaster response? Additionally, what are the policy and infrastructural issues relating to promoting libraries in a disaster resilience system? The questions will be explored via heterogeneous data collection and fusion and by developing multi-network resilience metrics and multivariate prioritized risk maps. The project team will identify the critical issues, challenges, and obstacles to designing resilience hubs in the study region of Calhoun County, Florida, and develop socioeconomic and demographic mathematical metrics to account for infrastructure characteristics, social factors, land use, and other localized conditions. The team will create vulnerability maps using Geographical Information Systems-based tools to identify high-need places in Calhoun County, which will be supported by the library-community outreach to educate residents about available services. Maps will also inform spatial optimization models for mobile emergency response library hub locations. This project’s findings, community engagement methods, and practice-based solutions may be scalable to other disaster-prone, rural regions. This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program, Track B—Resilience to Natural Disasters—and is a collaboration between NSF and the Department of Homeland Security.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.

公共图书馆为农村居民提供重要的信息、服务和支持，以抵御逆境。许多地方、州和联邦机构将公共图书馆用作援助分发点、志愿者接待中心、避难所和临时办公场所。虽然抗灾能力研究主要集中在城市环境中，但农村环境具有不同的、未得到充分研究的特点。农村地区相当大的地理差异也使得自然灾害后的“复原力鸿沟”变得明显，例如2018年的飓风迈克尔。因此，本项目的目标是研究和制定符合农村社区不同需求的应急计划，以一个中心假设为指导：了解社区行为者，人口需求，环境，信息和基础设施之间的相互依赖关系，促进农村社区的应急行动效率，可以导致成功的战略和政策，优化多方面的灾害响应。为了解决复原力鸿沟，本项目将探讨三个研究问题：（1）社区行为者、人口需求、环境、信息和基础设施之间的互动促进了农村社区的灾害复原力？此外，农村利益相关者和居民如何看待这个系统中的公共图书馆？(2)如何测量和建模社区复原力中社会、空间、环境和基础设施因素之间的相互依赖性和相互联系，以揭示农村社区复原力的差异？(3)如何将农村图书馆作为自然灾害应对的弹性中心来弥合这种弹性鸿沟？此外，在灾害复原系统中促进图书馆的政策和基础设施问题是什么？这些问题将通过异构数据收集和融合以及开发多网络弹性指标和多变量优先风险图来探索。该项目团队将确定关键问题，挑战和障碍，以设计在卡尔霍恩县，佛罗里达的研究区域的弹性枢纽，并制定社会经济和人口的数学指标，以说明基础设施的特点，社会因素，土地使用，和其他本地化的条件。该小组将使用基于地理信息系统的工具绘制脆弱性地图，以确定卡尔霍恩县的高需求地区，图书馆社区外联将提供支持，以教育居民了解可用的服务。地图还将为移动的应急响应图书馆枢纽位置的空间优化模型提供信息。该项目的研究结果、社区参与方法和基于实践的解决方案可能适用于其他易受灾害的农村地区。该项目是响应公民创新挑战计划，轨道B-恢复自然灾害，是NSF和国土安全部之间的合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。

项目成果

Rural Resiliency Hubs: An Integrated, Community-Centered Approach to Addressing the Resiliency Divide through Rural Public Libraries

农村复原力中心：以社区为中心的综合方法，通过农村公共图书馆解决复原力鸿沟

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: New Librarianship Symposium
• 作者: Mardis, M.A.

Satellite-based Hurricane Risk Assessment for Roadways via Vegetation 3D Modeling and Building Detection

通过植被 3D 建模和建筑物检测对道路进行卫星飓风风险评估

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Publications Transportation Research Board
• 作者: Gazzea, Michele;Karaer, Alican;Ghorbanzadeh, Mahyar;Ozguven, Eren Erman;Arghandeh, Reza
• 通讯作者: Arghandeh, Reza