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

社区复原力是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关键组成部分。社区复原力需要有效的灾前规划和协调参与救灾的复杂行为者网络。西弗吉尼亚州(WV)的每个县都有很高的洪灾风险，而降水频率和强度的增加、基础设施的老化以及高度的社会经济脆弱性加剧了这些风险。该项目是学术研究人员和民间行为者之间的合作，将确定在应对和恢复2016年西弗吉尼亚州一场大洪水的工作中吸取的教训。这场洪水摧毁了几个小城镇，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范围的规划。这一公民创新挑战(Civic)项目的项目结果将报告给社区和政策制定者，用于未来的规划工作，并获得资金以提高复原力。该团队将在规划拨款的基础上开发一个第二阶段项目，以创建西弗吉尼亚州洪水弹性框架(WVFRF)，这将是一个全面的在线工具包，使社区获得他们为应对未来洪水所需的协调和能力建设所需的知识，这将广泛应用于美国各地易发洪水的社区。该项目的目标是确定在组织能力、跨组织协调和洪水风险知识方面需要填补的差距，以便在西弗吉尼亚州更全面地应对洪水和长期洪水恢复。该小组将整合全县调查、参与性地理信息系统(PGIS)和两个不同程度的社会经济脆弱性影响长期恢复成功的案例研究地点的焦点小组的结果，以全面了解洪灾应对和恢复方面的差距。作为定量、定性和PGIS方法新颖集成的结果，该项目将在建设社会经济脆弱社区对自然灾害的复原力方面具有学术见解，同时也提出了一种独特的社区参与研究的跨学科模式，以共同生产知识为中心，并创建一种综合的灾难应对和恢复方法。该项目是对公民创新挑战计划的回应-轨道B。弥合基本资源和服务之间的差距。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。

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.