Collaborative Research: Examining the Vulnerability and Recovery of Small Farms to Natural Hazards and the Impact to Rural Community Resilience

合作研究：检查小农场对自然灾害的脆弱性和恢复以及对农村社区复原力的影响

• 批准号: 2053115
• 负责人: Steven Klose
• 金额: $ 11.52万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
• 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: 2021-11-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2053115&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Examining; Vulnerability; Recovery

This Disaster Resilience Research Grant (DRRG) project contributes to the advancement of national health, prosperity and welfare by creating new knowledge on disaster recovery for the agricultural industry. Despite the criticality of agriculture to U.S. and global food production, the lack of economic diversity and prevalence of agriculture in many rural areas, particularly in the central US, is theorized to be a major contributor to low disaster resilience. Resilience is a complex function of socio-economic dimensions and the built environment; and the population, economics, and physical infrastructure that comprise agricultural regions are distinct from the urban and suburban areas that are the common focus of most disaster and community resilience studies. This research generates a fundamental understanding of the resilience of farms and agriculture-prevalent rural communities in the face of severe windstorms, which will be of broad benefit to society and to national resilience. The research team will identify, evaluate, and recommend actions to enhance resilience of farms. To maximize the impact of these findings, the team will partner with the Extension Disaster Education Network for outreach and technology transfer. Implementation of these mitigation measures can transform the disaster resilience of rural and agricultural regions, safeguarding the lives of citizens, regional and national economies, and global food production. The long-term goal of this research is to enhance the resilience of rural communities to natural hazards, which requires state-of-the-art research on the infrastructure that support farm operations, the recovery processes of individual farms, and the interaction of individual farms within the regional agricultural economy. As a first step towards enhancing rural resilience, the interdisciplinary team will conduct a three-year research project carefully tracking resilience from hazards to structures to farms to communities. The project is characterized by two primary goals. The first goal is to generate a fundamental understanding of the vulnerability and recovery of farms following windstorms through longitudinal reconnaissance of impacted agricultural communities, surveys of impacted farmers, correlation of hazard intensity with infrastructure response, and the examination of the linkages between recovery of individual infrastructure with farm-level recovery. The second goal is to develop and validate a risk-informed resilience assessment framework comprised of a farm-level resilience factors and community-level economic analyses to support decisions on business continuity and infrastructure investment for farms and the broader agriculture-prevalent rural 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.

灾难恢复研究补助金（DRRG）项目通过为农业产业创造灾难恢复的新知识，为促进国家健康，繁荣和福利做出了贡献。尽管农业对美国和全球粮食生产至关重要，但在许多农村地区，特别是在美国中部，缺乏经济多样性和农业普遍存在，理论上是灾害恢复力低下的主要原因。复原力是社会经济层面和建筑环境的复杂功能;组成农业地区的人口，经济和物质基础设施与大多数灾害和社区复原力研究的共同重点城市和郊区不同。这项研究产生了对农场和农业为主的农村社区在面对严重风暴时的复原力的基本了解，这将对社会和国家复原力产生广泛的好处。研究小组将确定、评估和建议提高农场复原力的行动。为了最大限度地发挥这些调查结果的影响，该小组将与推广灾害教育网络合作，进行外联和技术转让。实施这些减灾措施可以改变农村和农业地区的抗灾能力，保护公民的生命、区域和国家经济以及全球粮食生产。这项研究的长期目标是提高农村社区对自然灾害的抵御能力，这需要对支持农场运营的基础设施、单个农场的恢复过程以及单个农场在区域农业经济中的相互作用进行最先进的研究。作为加强农村抗灾能力的第一步，跨学科团队将开展一个为期三年的研究项目，仔细跟踪从灾害到建筑物到农场到社区的抗灾能力。该项目有两个主要目标。第一个目标是通过对受影响的农业社区进行纵向侦察，对受影响的农民进行调查，将灾害强度与基础设施反应联系起来，并审查个别基础设施的恢复与农场一级的恢复之间的联系，对农场在风暴后的脆弱性和恢复情况有一个基本的了解。第二个目标是制定和验证一个风险知情的复原力评估框架，该框架包括农场一级的复原力因素和社区一级的经济分析，以支持农场和更广泛农业的业务连续性和基础设施投资决策。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。