SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: Youth-Centered Civic Technology and Citizen Science for Improving Community Heat Resilience Infrastructure

SCC-CIVIC-PG 轨道 A：以青年为中心的公民技术和公民科学，用于改善社区耐热基础设施

• 批准号: 2228553
• 负责人: Theodore Lim
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 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: 2022-10-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228553&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; PG; Track; Youth

One challenge for cities, especially under conditions of global climate change, is developing effective ways to keep residents safe from extreme heat. Within cities, historically marginalized neighborhoods often have measurably higher temperatures and fewer economic and social resources to mitigate the impacts of heat. The participation of these groups in planning how cities address heat is critical. To improve urban resilience to increasing temperatures and heat waves, this project develops a civic-engaged planning process that integrates strategically deployed sensor technologies with a community-informed data hub to forecast areas most in need of heat reduction intervention. The project will train city youth to collect, monitor, and communicate data on urban temperatures and experiences of heat through a citizen science program integrated with public decision-making processes. This project involves academic, government, public schools, nonprofit, and resident partners from the City of Roanoke, Virginia.This project incorporates novel linkages between processes of resident and organizational learning, social trust, coordination, and governance capacity necessary for long-term adaptation. The project builds on a previous place-based STEM and urban planning citizen science program implemented in Roanoke, VA. The current citizen science efforts will be expanded to include the deployment of wearable temperature sensors and stationary temperature monitoring equipment, as well as training youth in Photovoice methods using photography to document the effects of heat on their communities while simultaneously learning the language of urban planning. Key research questions include: (1) How do informal educators characterize leverage points to engage families around citizen science and heat resilience? (2) How can civic technologies help forge collaborations necessary to proactively address extreme heat in cities? and (3) How can digital infrastructure for diverse types of data be designed to facilitate how residents and government officials make sense of the problem of extreme heat and priorities for heat resilience? Outcomes include the deployment of a civic technology platform that will be co-designed with government officials, residents, and academic partners to incorporate the quantitative and qualitative data generated through youth and family engagement, as well as the development of replicable materials and methods to increase diverse citizen participation in increased urban resilience to the impacts of climate change.This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program—Track A. Living in a changing climate: pre-disaster action around adaptation, resilience, and mitigation—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.

城市面临的一个挑战，特别是在全球气候变化的条件下，是开发有效的方法来保护居民免受极端高温的影响。在城市中，历史上被边缘化的社区通常具有可测量的较高温度，并且用于减轻热量影响的经济和社会资源较少。这些团体参与规划城市如何解决热量问题至关重要。为了提高城市对温度和热浪的适应能力，该项目开发了一个公民参与的规划过程，将战略部署的传感器技术与社区知情的数据中心相结合，以预测最需要减少热量干预的地区。该项目将通过与公共决策过程相结合的公民科学计划，培训城市青年收集，监测和交流有关城市温度和热量体验的数据。该项目涉及来自弗吉尼亚州罗阿诺克市的学术界、政府、公立学校、非营利组织和居民合作伙伴。该项目将居民和组织学习、社会信任、协调和长期适应所需的治理能力的过程之间的新型联系结合起来。该项目建立在之前在弗吉尼亚州罗阿诺克实施的基于地点的STEM和城市规划公民科学计划的基础上。目前的公民科学工作将扩大到包括部署可穿戴的温度传感器和固定温度监测设备，以及培训青年使用摄影记录热对其社区的影响，同时学习城市规划语言的Photovoice方法。主要研究问题包括：（1）非正规教育工作者如何描述杠杆点，使家庭参与公民科学和热恢复力？(2)公民技术如何帮助建立必要的合作，以积极应对城市中的极端高温？以及（3）如何为不同类型的数据设计数字基础设施，以促进居民和政府官员如何理解极端高温问题和热弹性的优先事项？成果包括部署一个公民技术平台，该平台将与政府官员、居民和学术合作伙伴共同设计，以纳入通过青年和家庭参与产生的定量和定性数据，以及开发可复制的材料和方法，以增加多样化的公民参与，提高城市对气候变化影响的适应能力。挑战计划-轨道A。生活在不断变化的气候中：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。