MCA: Enhancing the Resilience of Interdependent Natural-Built Infrastructure Systems in Urbanized Coastal River Floodplains with Geomorphological Solutions

MCA：利用地貌解决方案增强城市化沿海河流洪泛区相互依存的自然基础设施系统的复原力

• 批准号: 2219242
• 负责人: Inci Guneralp
• 金额: $ 37.05万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 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: 2022-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2219242&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MCA; Enhancing; Resilience; Interdependent; Natural

This project aims to improve the resilience of flood-vulnerable communities inhabiting low-lying, urbanized coastal river floodplains. Many residents belonging to approximately 40% of the U.S. population, who are living in coastal counties, may benefit from this project. The project will examine how the interdependencies among natural and built infrastructure systems influence flood risk and how natural habitats can be utilized to mitigate flood impacts. The knowledge generated will strengthen the ability of decision-makers to maximize national security, public safety, the quality of life, and the protection of natural habitats. The project will broaden the participation in STEM research, education, and workforce by advancing a research program founded on convergence science and innovation, mentoring, science communication, and creating diverse, equitable, and inclusive environments.This project advances the conceptual and methodological framework for flood resilience by co-creating a deeper understanding of flooding-induced disruptions on the integrated natural-built infrastructure of low-lying, urbanized coastal river floodplains. The project adopts a convergence science approach that integrates disciplinary cultures, theories, methods, and data from the fields of geomorphology and transportation engineering. The project will generate fundamental knowledge on geomorphological networks, interdependencies between geomorphological networks and built infrastructure networks, the impacts of these interdependencies on cascading failures from floods, and the potential of geomorphological habitats as nature-based solutions. The knowledge and tools generated will allow for observing, understanding, and exploring the potential trajectories of natural-built infrastructure interactions during floods and strengthen the ability to mitigate flood risks and impacts while maintaining and enhancing natural habitats.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.

该项目旨在提高居住在低洼、城市化沿海河流洪泛区的易受洪水影响社区的复原力。大约40%的美国居民居住在沿海县，他们可能会从这个项目中受益。该项目将研究自然和建筑基础设施系统之间的相互依存关系如何影响洪水风险，以及如何利用自然栖息地减轻洪水影响。所产生的知识将加强决策者的能力，以最大限度地提高国家安全、公共安全、生活质量和保护自然栖息地。该项目将通过推进基于融合科学和创新，指导，科学传播的研究计划，以及创造多样化，公平，该项目通过共同创造对低洼地区综合自然建成基础设施的破坏的更深入理解，城市化的沿海河漫滩。该项目采用融合科学的方法，整合了地貌学和交通工程领域的学科文化，理论，方法和数据。该项目将产生关于地貌网络、地貌网络与已建基础设施网络之间的相互依存关系、这些相互依存关系对洪水级联故障的影响以及地貌生境作为基于自然的解决方案的潜力的基本知识。所产生的知识和工具将允许观察，理解和探索洪水期间自然建成基础设施相互作用的潜在轨迹，并加强减轻洪水风险和影响的能力，同时保持和改善自然栖息地。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。