CIVIC-PG Track B: Creating the West Virginia Flood Resilience Framework for comprehensive disaster response and long-term community recovery

CIVIC-PG 轨道 B：创建西弗吉尼亚州防洪框架，以实现全面灾难响应和长期社区恢复

• 批准号: 2228492
• 负责人: Aaron Maxwell
• 金额: $ 4.98万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 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: 2022-10-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228492&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CIVIC; PG; Track; Creating; West

Community resilience is the ability of communities to withstand and mitigate the stress of a disaster and is a key component of long-term recovery from natural disasters such as floods. Community resilience requires effective pre-disaster planning and coordination of the complex network of actors involved in disaster response. Every county in West Virginia (WV) has a high risk of flooding and these risks are compounded by increasing frequency and intensity of precipitation, aging infrastructure, and high levels of socioeconomic vulnerability. This project is a collaboration between academic researchers and civic actors and will identify lessons learned during response and recovery efforts to a major flood in 2016 in WV. This flood devastated several small towns, killed 23 people, and caused over $1 billion in damage across the state. In 2022, some communities still have not made a full recovery and lessons from the 2016 event have yet to be clearly identified or incorporated into local or statewide planning. Project findings from this Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) project will be reported back to communities and policymakers to be used in future planning efforts, as well as to procure funding to increase resilience. The team will build on insights from the planning grant to develop a Stage 2 project to create the West Virginia Flood Resilience Framework (WVFRF), which will be a comprehensive online toolkit to empower communities with the knowledge they need for coordination and capacity building to prepare for future floods, which will have broad application to flood-prone communities across the US.The goals of this project are to determine the gaps in organizational capacity, cross-organization coordination, and flood risk knowledge that need to be filled for more comprehensive flood response and long-term flood recovery in WV. The team will integrate findings from a county-wide survey, Participatory GIS (PGIS), and focus groups in two case study sites with different levels of socioeconomic vulnerability that impacted success of long-term recovery to provide a comprehensive understanding of gaps in flood response and recovery. As a result of a novel integration of quantitative, qualitative, and PGIS methods, the project will have insights for scholarship on building resilience to natural disaster in socioeconomically vulnerable communities while also presenting a unique transdisciplinary model for community-engaged research that centers co-production of knowledge and creates a comprehensive approach to disaster response and recovery.This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program—Track B. Bridging the gap between essential resources and services & community needs—and is a collaboration between NSF, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Energy.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.

社区复原力是指社区承受和减轻灾害压力的能力，是从洪水等自然灾害中长期恢复的一个关键组成部分。社区的抗灾能力需要有效的灾前规划和参与救灾的复杂行为体网络的协调。西弗吉尼亚州（WV）的每个县都有很高的洪水风险，这些风险由于降水频率和强度的增加，基础设施老化和社会经济脆弱性的高水平而加剧。该项目是学术研究人员和民间行为者之间的合作，将确定在2016年西弗吉尼亚州大洪水的应对和恢复工作中吸取的经验教训。这场洪水摧毁了几个小镇，造成23人死亡，并在全州造成超过10亿美元的损失。2022年，一些社区仍未完全恢复，2016年事件的教训尚未明确确定或纳入地方或全州规划。该公民创新挑战（CIVIC）项目的项目结果将报告给社区和决策者，用于未来的规划工作，并获得资金以提高复原力。该团队将利用规划拨款的见解，开发第二阶段项目，以创建西弗吉尼亚州洪水恢复力框架（WVFRF），这将是一个全面的在线工具包，为社区提供协调和能力建设所需的知识，为未来的洪水做好准备。该项目将广泛应用于美国各地的洪水易发社区。该项目的目标是确定组织能力，跨组织协调，和洪水风险的知识，需要填补更全面的洪水响应和长期的洪水恢复在西弗吉尼亚州。该小组将整合来自全国范围的调查结果，分析性地理信息系统（PGIS）和两个案例研究地点的焦点小组，这些地点具有不同程度的社会经济脆弱性，影响了长期恢复的成功，以全面了解洪水应对和恢复方面的差距。作为定量、定性和PGIS方法的新型集成的结果，该项目将有关于在社会经济脆弱社区建立自然灾害恢复能力的奖学金的见解，同时也为社区参与的研究提供了一个独特的跨学科模型，知识的生产和创建一个全面的方法来应对灾害和恢复。这个项目是为了应对公民创新的挑战程序-轨道B。弥合基本资源和服务社区需求之间的差距-是NSF、国土安全部和能源部之间的合作。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审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。