BRITE Synergy: Developing and Validating a Framework for Measuring Resilience in Low-Income Housing in the Post-Pandemic World

BRITE Synergy：开发和验证衡量大流行后世界低收入住房弹性的框架

• 批准号: 2135713
• 负责人: Esther Obonyo
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2135713&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BRITE; Synergy; Developing; Validating; Framework

A range of disasters -- including flood, hurricane, typhons, violent storms, earthquakes, collapsed infrastructure, and pandemic -- pose the greatest threat to the poor and most vulnerable in society as they are more likely to live in homes that are more vulnerable to the impact of these disasters. Reliance on ‘hard’ engineering and infrastructure solutions alone cannot solve this problem. This Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering (BRITE) project aims to integrate findings from past research with findings from a series of multi-level stakeholder engagement activities into a framework that integrates the roles of human, social and natural capital in reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience. The aim is to identify viable pathways for improved resilience for particularly vulnerable, low-income housing communities. The research activities are designed to address resilience to multiple disaster events and types, and to focus characteristics of subgroups within the target population: low-income housing residents. Through a multi-level, stakeholder case study approach that draws lessons from the experiences of vulnerable populations, sources and determinants of resilience will be examined. A sensitivity analysis will be performed to identify plausibility indicators for what is and what is not likely to support the resilience of low-income housing to specific sets of shocks.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.

一系列灾害--包括洪水、飓风、台风、猛烈风暴、地震、基础设施坍塌和大流行--对社会上最脆弱的穷人构成最大威胁，因为他们更有可能生活在更容易受到这些灾害影响的家庭中。单靠“硬”工程和基础设施解决方案解决不了这个问题。这个BRITE项目旨在将过去的研究成果与一系列多层次利益相关者参与活动的成果整合到一个框架中，整合人力、社会和自然资本在减少脆弱性和提高复原力方面的作用。其目的是为特别脆弱的低收入住房社区确定提高复原力的可行途径。研究活动的目的是解决对多种灾害事件和类型的复原力，并重点关注目标人群中的亚群：低收入住房居民的特点。通过借鉴弱势群体经验的多层次、利益攸关方案例研究方法，将审查复原力的来源和决定因素。将进行敏感性分析，以确定哪些是和哪些不太可能支持低收入住房对特定震荡的弹性。这一奖项反映了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。