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

社区复原力是指社区承受和减轻灾难压力的能力。它是从洪水等自然灾害中长期恢复的关键组成部分。社区复原力需要最新的灾害风险知识和有效的灾前规划，并协调参与救灾的行为者的复杂网络。西弗吉尼亚州的每个县都有很高的洪灾风险，而且降水的频率和强度越来越高，基础设施老化，社会经济脆弱性很高，这些风险变得更加复杂。该项目是西弗吉尼亚州在灾难准备、响应和恢复方面发挥关键作用的非营利性组织和州机构的公民行为者与具有社会科学、法律和地理信息科学(GIS)专业知识的大学研究人员之间的合作。科学团队还拥有与容易发生洪水的西弗吉尼亚州社区合作的丰富经验。在这项合作中开发的研究产品的结果将是西弗吉尼亚州洪水复原力框架。免费提供的在线资源，其中包含由项目团队、各种利益相关者和最终用户共同创建的材料。这一框架将支持居民、地方领导人、非营利组织和州政府官员努力提高西弗吉尼亚州社区的抗洪能力。它将提高关于洪水风险、洪泛区管理和综合备灾的知识。这个在线工具及其功能旨在提供一个可移植的模型，用于创建当地定制的灾难应对计划，并广泛应用于阿巴拉契亚和美国的洪水易发社区。公民创新挑战是与能源部、国土安全部和国家科学基金会的合作。该项目的目标是：(1)使用全州范围的调查来评估西弗吉尼亚州居民从过去的洪水中恢复得如何，以及他们对未来洪水的准备情况；(2)为西弗吉尼亚州所有286个洪水平原社区创建洪水风险指标报告；(3)利用参与式地理信息系统方法，为选定的弱势社区开发深入的洪水风险可视化工具；(4)进行关于洪水平原管理和洪水保险的面对面和虚拟培训；(5)主办全州洪水弹性研讨会，并创建西弗吉尼亚州洪水弹性灾前协调的最佳实践指南；以及(6)构建并启动一个在线实用程序，该实用程序在一个可访问的工具中包含所有项目输出。作为这种定量、定性和参与式地理信息系统方法的创新集成的结果，该项目产生了一种创建洪水风险可视化的新方法，与传统的地理信息系统和其他方法相比，这种方法更好地将专家知识与社区需求相结合。它还提供了一个公众可访问的框架和资源中心，以提高社区的抗洪能力，并为社区参与的研究提供了一个可转移的模型，该研究集中于共同生产知识，并提供关于在脆弱社区建设对自然灾害的抗灾能力的学术见解。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. It is a key component of long-term recovery from natural disasters such as floods. Community resilience requires up-to-date knowledge of disaster risk and effective pre-disaster planning and coordination of the complex network of actors involved in disaster response. Every county in West Virginia 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 civic actors from non-profit organizations and state agencies in West Virginia that play key roles in disaster preparation, response, and recovery and university researchers with social science, legal, and geographic information science (GIS) expertise. The science team also has extensive experience working with flood-prone West Virginia communities. The result of research products developed in this collaboration will be the West Virginia Flood Resilience Framework. A freely available online resource containing materials co-created by the project team, various stakeholders, and the end users. This framework will support residents, local leaders, non-profits, and state officials in efforts to increase flood resilience for West Virginia communities. It will improve knowledge about flood risk, floodplain management, and comprehensive disaster preparation. The online tool and its capabilities are designed to provide a transferable model for creation of locally tailored disaster response plans with broad application to flood-prone communities across Appalachia and the United States.The CIVIC Innovation Challenge is a collaboration with Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, and the National Science Foundation. The objectives of this project are to: (1) Use a state-wide survey to assess how well West Virginia residents have recovered from past floods and how prepared they are for future floods; (2) Create flood risk indicator reports for all 286 floodplain communities in West Virginia; (3) Develop in-depth flood risk visualization tools for selected disadvantaged communities using Participatory GIS methods; (4) Conduct in-person and virtual trainings about floodplain management and flood insurance; (5) Host the Statewide Flood Resilience Symposium and create the Best Practices Guide for Pre-disaster Coordination of Flood Resilience in West Virginia; and (6) Build and launch the an online utility that contains all project outputs in one accessible tool. As a result of this innovative integration of quantitative, qualitative, and Participatory GIS methods, the project results in a novel approach to creating flood risk visualizations that better aligns expert knowledge with community needs than traditional GIS and other approaches. It also provides a publicly accessible framework and resource hub to increase community flood resilience, as well as delivers a transferable model for community-engaged research that centers co-production of knowledge with insights for scholarship on building resilience to natural disaster in vulnerable communities.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.