Planning: SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: Recovering from Expected Flooding Under Residential Buildings (REFURB)

REFURB将使用技术来改善对影响密歇根州底特律东区的持续和日益严重的地下室洪水的恢复和准备。我们的重点是在社区，其中包含连接到老化的下水道系统，是规模较小，维护不善，由于种族驱动的发展政策和投资决策的老房子。最近的研究探讨了通过景观变化管理雨水的局限性，但成功与否取决于土壤、植物、大小和风暴频率的类型。在沿海社区，房屋需要“安全到不能倒塌”，因为洪水目前是不可避免的。与NSF的使命一致，这项工作将推动科学进步，以改善个人福祉。城市恢复方案还将提高伙伴关系的效力，这种伙伴关系是必要的，但目前并不存在。此外，在这项工作中建立的数据和知识将用于将社区观点融入课程，以增强社会工作者、传播专业人员和工程师从事气候复原力和减灾工作的渠道。该项目的目标是：（1）利用洪灾损失报告、环境和其他数据，制定临时的、概念验证级别的风险图，用于调整关键基础设施，以减轻未来洪灾的脆弱性;（2）根据参与性行动案例研究，说明有效和公平的灾后恢复和减灾所需的特征和支助，风险社区致力于改善防洪，气候适应能力和数据访问;（3）通过与风险社区的参与性行动案例研究，为缺乏数字访问的居民了解预警，响应和洪水风险准备所需的社会结构，系统和社区科学素养。REFURB将召集受影响社区居民的工作组，共同制作支持复原力所需的知识（即，灾后恢复新常态的能力）到气候引发的洪水。第一个目标将包括更好的技术来评估住宅下水道管道的状况和优化基础设施投资。一个融合的方法与强大的社区参与相结合，将确保有关创新技术的知识将是可扩展和可推广的。第二，在现有伙伴关系的基础上，该项目将制定一个以社区为基础的框架，以提高对气候变化的适应能力。第三，该项目将推进用于沟通风险的技术，并在并非所有人都拥有智能手机的社区加强灾难恢复。通过了解社区居民如何与技术互动，使家庭“安全失败”，研究结果将告知其他城市社区经历气候引发的洪水。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。

REFURB will use technology to improve recovery from and preparation for persistent and increasingly severe basement flooding that impacts the Eastside of Detroit, Michigan. Our focus is in neighborhoods that contain older homes connected to aging sewer systems that are undersized, and poorly maintained due to racially driven development policy and investment decisions. Recent research has explored the limitations of managing stormwater through landscape changes, but success is contingent on the type of soil, plants, size, and frequency of storms. In coastal communities, homes need to be “safe to fail” because flooding is currently inevitable. Consistent with NSF’s mission, this work will progress science to improve individual well-being. REFURB will also lead to increased effectiveness of partnerships, which are needed, but do not presently exist. Additionally, data and knowledge built during this work will be used to integrate community perspectives into curricula to enhance a pipeline for social workers, communications professionals, and engineers to work in climate resilience and disaster mitigation. The project's goals are to: (1) Use flood damage reports, environmental and other data to develop provisional, proof-of-concept level risk maps to be used to target adaptations of critical infrastructure to mitigate future flooding vulnerability; (2) Describe the attributes and supports required for effective and equitable disaster recovery and mitigation based on a participatory action case study with at-risk communities working to improve flood prevention, climate resilience, and data access; and (3) Develop understanding of the social structures, systems, and community science literacies necessary for early-warning, response, and flood risk preparedness for residents who lack digital access through a participatory action case study with at-risk communities. REFURB will convene work groups from impacted community residents to co-produce knowledge required to support resilience (i.e., the ability to return to a new normal after disasters) to climate-induced flooding. The first goal will include better techniques to assess the condition of residential sewer pipes and optimize infrastructure investment. A convergent approach combined with robust community engagement will ensure the knowledge about innovative technologies will be scalable and generalizable. Second, building on existing partnerships, this project will develop a community-based framework for improving resilience to climate change. Third, this project will advance techniques used to communicate risk and enhance disaster recovery in communities where not all have smartphones. By learning how people in neighborhoods interact with technology needed to make homes “safe to fail”, findings will inform other urban communities experiencing climate-induced flooding.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.