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

2209139（古道尔）。该项目的总体目标是创建可转移的方法，以提高城市沿海社区的复原力和公平性。虽然目标是产生可转移的方法，但该项目的重点是弗吉尼亚州汉普顿路地区的社区-美国最易受海平面上升影响的人口之一-作为社区伙伴。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。社区资本这个术语既包括自然建造的资本，如海堤、生活海岸线和绿色雨水基础设施，也包括人力社会资本，如健康、福祉、代理和赋权。总体假设是，这两种形式的社区资本必须协同推进，以建立有弹性和公平的城市沿海社区。研究计划在两个空间尺度上运作，区域和地方，因为这两个尺度对建设社区资本至关重要。在区域范围内，研究任务是创建一个地理空间数据清单，一个全系统的洪水模型，以及城市社区区域气候适应力的公平政策。在当地范围内，研究任务是赋予和参与在气候适应能力对话中历史上被边缘化的社区，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效益。通过地方社区和更大规模的区域努力之间的共享资源和反馈，将两个规模的工作联系起来。这项研究的一个关键知识特征是协同推进社区资本对气候适应能力的作用。许多项目侧重于其中一个社区资本，但很少有项目寻求以相互协同的方式推动这两个资本。为了促进人类社会资本，如福祉，赋权和机构对促进公平和有弹性的社区至关重要，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力的挑战产生持久的影响。例如，社区成员可以实施共同设计的绿色雨水干预措施，这一概念有助于增强自然资本和社会人力资本。为了鼓励包容性，该项目还特别注重消除代表性不足和边缘化社区参与沿海复原力对话和活动的障碍。为了加强如何自然建成的资本可以评估和加强，研究先进的国家在区域尺度上模拟复杂的城市雨水系统。该战略是建立广泛使用的工程设计模型，使研究的产品可以更容易地通过沿海社区，并将它们集成到一个更全面的建模系统。最后，该项目的枢纽结构提供了一个机会，以促进项目团队的专业知识，从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的融合。该项目有三个主要的更广泛的影响目标。首先是扩大科学、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-这是一所位于弗吉尼亚州诺福克的历史悠久的黑人大学-该项目的合作伙伴社区。该项目旨在建立NSU和弗吉尼亚大学之间的长期合作伙伴关系，以利用他们在气候适应力方面的共同利益，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。该项目团队将加强现有的STEM教育工作，以接触到公立K-12学生：UVA和伊丽莎白河项目（ERP）和校园长期生态研究（SLTER）共同开发的学习驳船，该项目利用NSF的支持向居住在弗吉尼亚州海岸的学生传授气候适应力。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。评估的一种方法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共同效益。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且通过使用基金会的知识价值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.