SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Community Resilience Micro-Bonds to Balance Cost and Social Equity among Stakeholders

SCC-CIVIC-PG 轨道 B：社区弹性微型债券，以平衡利益相关者之间的成本和社会公平

• 批准号: 2044013
• 负责人: Grace Yan
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Missouri University of Science and Technology
• 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 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2044013&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; PG; Track; Community

The US government invests $1 billion annually in hazard mitigation, but the resilience investment gap for the US is estimated to exceed $520 billion. The resilience gap across different communities and population groups is widening due to growing economic inequality in the US, which is further exacerbated by hazard events which turn into disasters. Therefore, finding innovative strategies and methods to fund socially equitable resilience improvements is essential for communities to thrive and survive. Catastrophe Bonds and Disaster Resilience Bonds are fairly mainstream topics and are used as a mechanism to raise money from investors for infrastructure improvement, but less attention is paid to social equity, a factor that underpins community resilience. A community is made up of more than the physical parts of the infrastructure and involves people, relationships, networks, all working as part of social institutions such as schools, hospitals, and service entities. Therefore, in this project, a new type of bonds, termed herein as a Coastal Community Resilience Micro-Bonds (CCRMB), will be implemented. In this project, innovative strategies and methods to fund socially equitable resilience improvements, which are essential for communities to thrive and survive, will be developed and implemented. Infrastructure-focused bonds are helpful for communities, but still leave a substantial gap in the disaster resilience bond paradigm, because repair of physical infrastructure is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for community resilience. The goal of this CIVIC Innovation Challenge grant is to promote the contributions of various sectors and financial agents of a community to invest in resilience initiatives and provide innovative mechanisms for them to do so. By leveraging the CCRMB, equitable recovery of both physical and social services and institutions can be achieved through staged and comprehensive planning and investment prior to disasters. To accomplish this requires interdisciplinary modeling of the multiple hazards experienced by coastal communities, and the city of Charleston, SC will be the focus community for implementation of the proposed CCRMB. 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.

美国政府每年投资 10 亿美元用于减灾，但美国的复原力投资缺口估计超过 5200 亿美元。由于美国经济不平等日益加剧，不同社区和人口群体之间的复原力差距正在扩大，而灾害事件演变成灾难则进一步加剧了这种不平等。因此，寻找创新战略和方法来资助社会公平的复原力改进对于社区的繁荣和生存至关重要。巨灾债券和抗灾债券是相当主流的话题，被用作从投资者那里筹集资金用于改善基础设施的机制，但对社会公平的关注较少，而社会公平是支撑社区抗灾能力的一个因素。社区不仅仅由基础设施的物理部分组成，还涉及人员、关系、网络，所有这些都作为社会机构（例如学校、医院和服务实体）的一部分而运作。因此，在该项目中，将实施一种新型债券，本文称为沿海社区复原力微型债券（CCRMB）。在该项目中，将制定和实施创新战略和方法，为社会公平的复原力改进提供资金，这对于社区的繁荣和生存至关重要。以基础设施为重点的债券对社区有帮助，但在抗灾债券范式中仍然存在很大差距，因为有形基础设施的修复是社区抗灾能力的必要条件，但不是充分条件。 CIVIC 创新挑战赛赠款的目标是促进社区各个部门和金融机构的贡献，投资于复原力举措，并为他们提供创新机制。通过利用 CCRMB，可以通过灾前的分阶段全面规划和投资来实现物质和社会服务及机构的公平恢复。为了实现这一目标，需要对沿海社区经历的多种灾害进行跨学科建模，南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿市将成为实施拟议的 CCRMB 的重点社区。该项目是对公民创新挑战计划 B 轨（自然灾害抵御能力）的回应，是 NSF 和国土安全部之间的合作项目。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。