Focused CoPe: Enhancing Resilience and Equity in Urban Coastal Communities through the Co-Generation of Community Capitals

2209139(Goodall)。该项目的总体目标是创造可转让的方法，以增强城市沿海社区的复原力和公平性。虽然目标是生产可转移的方法，但该项目将重点放在弗吉尼亚州汉普顿路地区的社区作为社区合作伙伴。汉普顿路地区是美国最容易受到海平面上升影响的人群之一。该项目的中心结构强调与社区利益攸关方合作，在不同的研究人员团队中共同创造社区资本。社区资本是一个术语，既包括自然建造的资本，如海堤、有生命的海岸线和绿色雨水基础设施，也包括人-社会资本，如健康、福祉、代理和赋权。最重要的假设是，这两种形式的社区资本必须协同推进，才能拥有有弹性和公平的城市沿海社区。该研究计划在两个空间尺度上运作，区域尺度和地方尺度，因为这两个尺度对于建设社区中心都至关重要。在区域范围内，研究任务是创建地理空间数据清单、全系统洪水模型和城市社区区域气候复原力的公平政策。在当地范围内，研究任务是赋予在气候适应能力对话中历来被边缘化的社区的权力和参与，通过共同设计雨水基础设施的研讨会建立社区资本，并衡量绿色雨水基础设施对心理健康和福祉的共同好处。两个范围内的工作通过当地社区和更大范围的区域努力之间的共享资源和反馈联系在一起。这项研究的一个关键的智力特征是社区资本在应对气候变化方面的协同推进。许多项目都集中在这些社区首府中的一个，但很少有项目寻求在相互协同中促进两者的发展。为了促进福祉、赋权和机构等对培育公平和有弹性的社区至关重要的人-社会资本，该项目推进了公平的公共政策，这些政策可以对沿海城市如何应对应对气候适应能力的挑战产生持久影响。例如，可由社区成员实施的共同设计的绿色雨水干预措施的概念可以促进增强自然建造资本和社会人力资本。为鼓励包容，该项目还着重消除代表不足和边缘化社区在沿海复原力对话和活动中面临的参与障碍。为了加强如何评估和加固自然建造的首都，这项研究推进了在区域范围内对复杂的城市雨水系统进行建模的技术水平。该战略是从工程设计中广泛使用的模型建立起，这样研究的产品可以更容易地被沿海社区采用，并将它们整合到一个更全面的建模系统中。最后，该项目的中心结构提供了机会，以促进项目小组的各种专长之间的融合，包括水文工程和海洋科学、建筑和景观设计、环境正义和环境心理学、社会工作和社区参与。该项目有三个主要的更广泛的影响目标。第一个是扩大对科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的参与。为了实现这一目标，项目团队将为诺福克州立大学(NSU)的八名本科生和一名研究生提供机会。诺福克州立大学是一所历史悠久的黑人大学，位于弗吉尼亚州诺福克市，是该项目的合作伙伴社区。该项目旨在NSU和弗吉尼亚大学之间建立长期合作伙伴关系，以利用他们在应对气候变化方面的共同兴趣，并与当地社区建立真正和有意义的联系。第二个更广泛的影响目标是外联和教育。项目团队将加强STEM教育方面的现有努力，以接触到公共的K-12学生：由弗吉尼亚大学和伊丽莎白河项目(ERP)共同开发的学习驳船，以及利用美国国家科学基金会的支持向弗吉尼亚州海岸的学生传授气候适应能力的学校长期生态研究(SLTER)项目。该项目的第三个更广泛的影响目标是对当地伙伴社区的福祉产生积极影响。评估这一点的一种方式是通过研究通过该项目共同设计和实施的绿色基础设施干预措施的心理健康和福祉协同效益。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。

2209139 (Goodall). The overarching goal of this project is to create transferable methods for enhancing resilience and equity in urban coastal communities. While the goal is to produce transferable methods, the project focuses on communities in Hampton Roads region of Virginia — one of the most vulnerable populations to sea level rise in the United States — as community partners. The hub structure of the project emphasizes the co-generation of community capitals among a diverse team of researchers in partnership with community stakeholders. Community capitals is a term inclusive of both natural-built capitals, such as sea walls, living shorelines, and green stormwater infrastructure, and human-social capitals, such as health, well-being, agency, and empowerment. The overarching hypothesis is that both forms of community capitals must be advanced in synergy in order to have resilient and equitable urban coastal communities. The research plan operates on two spatial scales, regional and local, because both scales are critical for building community capitals. On the regional scale, the research tasks are to create a geospatial data inventory, a system-wide flood model, and equitable policies for regional climate resilience in urban communities. On the local scale, the research tasks are to empower and engage communities that have been historically marginalized in the climate resilience conversation, build community capital through workshops that result in co-designed stormwater infrastructure, and measure the co-benefits of green stormwater infrastructure for mental health and well-being. Work across the two scales is connected through shared resources and feedback between the local community and broader-scale regional efforts. A key intellectual feature of this research is the synergistic advancement of community capitals for climate resilience. Many projects focus on one of these community capitals, but few seek to advance both in synergy with one another. To advance the human-social capital like well-being, empowerment, and agency critical to fostering equitable and resilient communities, this project advances equitable public policies that can have a lasting impact on how coastal urban cities approach the challenge of addressing climate resilience. For example, the concept of co-designed green stormwater interventions that can be implemented by community members can contribute to both enhancing natural-built capital and social-human capital. To encourage inclusion, the project also has a strong focus on removing barriers to participation facing underrepresented and marginalized communities in the coastal resilience conversations and activities. To strengthen how natural-built capitals can be assessed and strengthened, the research advances the state of art for modeling complex urban stormwater systems at a regional scale. The strategy is to build from widely used models for engineering design, so that products of the research can be more easily adopted by coastal communities, and to integrate them into a more holistic modeling system. Lastly, the hub structure of this project provides the opportunity to foster convergence across the project team’s expertise that ranges from hydrologic engineering and ocean science, to architecture and landscape design, to environmental justice and environmental psychology, to social work and community engagement. The project has three primary broader impact goals. The first is to broaden participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). To achieve this goal, the project team will provide opportunities for eight undergraduate students and one graduate student at Norfolk State University (NSU) — a historically Black university located in Norfolk, Virginia — a partner community for the project. The project aims to create a long-term partnership between NSU and the University of Virginia to capitalize on their shared interest in climate resilience, and to create authentic and meaningful connections with the local community. The second broader impact goal is outreach and education. The project team will strengthen existing efforts in STEM education to reach public K-12 students: a Learning Barge co-developed between UVA and the Elizabeth River Project (ERP) and the Schoolyard-Long Term Ecological Research (SLTER), a project that leverages NSF support to teach students living on Virginia’s coast about climate resilience. The third broader impact goal of the project is to have a positive effect on the well-being of the local partner communities. One way this will be assessed is through studying mental health and well-being co-benefits of green infrastructure interventions co-designed and implemented through the projectThis 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.