SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: Community-Science Partnership to Enhance Stormwater Adaptation under Climate Change

气候变化条件下的快速城市化加速了雨水泛滥，往往超出了社区传统基础设施的应对能力。蓝绿基础设施（BGI）是全球公认的“基于自然”的替代方案，通过景观规模管理支持城市气候变化抵御能力。适应气候变化的一个重大挑战，特别是在城市地区，在于如何在社区层面创新、动员和维护知识，以以人为本和社会公平的方式提高华大基因的效益。该项目促进了关于城市绿化领域新兴公平原则的学术研究，并研究了社区如何有效参与气候适应的关键组成部分，以适应城市地区的不同需求和不平等机会。在美国，关于华大基因维护的奖学金强调了资金、专业知识和股权方面的挑战如何破坏长期维持华大基因投资的努力。因此，新的目标是开发社区参与的新型华大基因治理实践和流程（包括监测和维护），以增强雨水适应能力和气候适应能力，同时不增加劳动力负担或再现城市不平等模式。虽然我们的重点是华大基因在达拉斯-沃斯堡大都会区，这是一个快速增长的地区，由于气候变化而面临越来越多的雨水泛滥，但该项目寻求开发可扩展的创新，以增强其他城市环境中的社区参与。这项规划拨款的主要目标是加强一个新兴的实践社区，共同创建一个社区科学研究观测站，致力于提高城市对气候变化的适应能力。我们与社区伙伴、合作推广志愿者和专家合作，确定了三个项目目标。首先，我们将根据现有和新兴的社区伙伴关系，成立一个社区科学工作小组。第二，我们将设计、执行和评估社区绿色基础设施资产管理（C-GAM）试点工具。我们将利用社区参与（共同开发、实施、验证、反思/传播）修改现有的绿色资产管理工具，共同制定其他社会标准（即公平、弹性）来评估华大基因的实施情况。第三，我们将召开多利益相关方研讨会，共同设计第二阶段提案。该项目的C-GAM培训和实施计划有助于STEM教育，以提高社区对城市生态、城市水和华大基因工程的认识。我们的项目的教育和评估材料将通过社区大使进行更广泛的传播，以增加社区对华大基因的了解和参与。该项目是对“公民创新挑战”项目（track a）的回应：在不断变化的气候中生活：围绕适应、恢复和缓解的灾前行动——是国家科学基金会、国土安全部和能源部之间的合作项目。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Rapid urbanization under conditions of climate change accelerates stormwater flooding, often occurring beyond the capacity of communities to respond with traditional infrastructure. Blue-green infrastructure (BGI) is a globally recognized “nature-based” alternative that supports urban climate-change resilience through landscape-scale management. A grand challenge for adapting to climate change, especially in urban areas, lies in how to innovate, mobilize, and sustain knowledge at the community level to enhance benefits of BGI in ways that are people-centric and socially equitable. The project contributes to growing scholarship on emerging equity principles in the field of urban greening and examines how communities can effectively engage in critical components of climate adaptation to accommodate different needs and unequal opportunities across urban areas. Scholarship on BGI maintenance in the U.S. highlights how the challenges of funding, expertise, and equity can undermine efforts to sustain BGI investments over time. Therefore, new seek to develop new forms of community-engaged BGI governance practices and processes (including monitoring and maintenance) that can enhance stormwater adaptive capacity and climate resilience in ways that do not increase burdens of labor or reproduce patterns of urban inequality. While our focus is BGI in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, a rapidly growing region facing increased stormwater flooding due to climate change, this project seeks to develop scalable innovations that can enhance community participation in other urban contexts.The major goal of this planning grant is to strengthen an emergent community of practice that will co-create a community-scientific research observatory dedicated to enhancing urban adaptation to climate change. Working with community partners and cooperative extension volunteers and specialists, we have identified three project objectives. First, we will establish a community-science working group based on existing and emerging community partnerships. Second, we will design, execute, and assess a pilot community-based green infrastructure asset management (C-GAM) tool. We will modify existing green asset management tools using community engagement (co-development, implementation, validation, reflection/dissemination) to co-create other societal criteria (i.e., equity, resiliency) to evaluate BGI implementation. Third, we will convene a multi-stakeholder workshop to co-design the Stage 2 proposal. The project’s C-GAM training and implementation plan contributes to STEM education to enhance community knowledge of urban ecology, urban water, and BGI engineering. Our project’s educational and assessment materials will be designed for wider dissemination through community-ambassadors to increase community knowledge and engagement with BGI.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.