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害压力的能力。它是从洪水等自然灾害中长期恢复的一个关键组成部分。社区的复原力要求对灾害风险有最新的了解，并对参与救灾的复杂行为体网络进行有效的灾前规划和协调。西弗吉尼亚州的每个县都有很高的洪水风险，这些风险由于降水频率和强度的增加，基础设施老化和社会经济脆弱性的高水平而加剧。该项目是来自非营利组织和西弗吉尼亚州政府机构的民间行为者之间的合作，这些机构在灾害准备，响应和恢复方面发挥着关键作用，并与社会科学，法律的和地理信息科学（GIS）专业知识的大学研究人员合作。该科学团队还拥有与易发洪水的西弗吉尼亚州社区合作的丰富经验。在这次合作中开发的研究产品的结果将是西弗吉尼亚州洪水恢复力框架。一个免费的在线资源，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。该框架将支持居民，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洪水恢复能力。它将提高有关洪水风险、洪泛区管理和全面防灾的知识。该在线工具及其功能旨在提供一个可转移的模型，用于创建本地定制的灾害响应计划，广泛应用于阿巴拉契亚和美国的洪水易发社区。CIVIC创新挑战赛是与能源部、国土安全部和国家科学基金会合作开展的。该项目的目标是：（1）利用全州范围的调查，评估西弗吉尼亚州居民从过去的洪水中恢复的情况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个洪泛区社区编制洪水风险指标报告;（3）利用地理信息系统方法，为选定的弱势社区开发深入的洪水风险可视化工具;（4）进行关于洪泛区管理和洪水保险的面对面和虚拟培训;（5）举办全州洪水复原力研讨会，并创建西弗吉尼亚州洪水复原力灾前协调最佳实践指南;以及（6）建立并启动一个在线实用程序，将所有项目产出包含在一个可访问的工具中。由于这种定量，定性和分解GIS方法的创新集成，该项目产生了一种新的方法来创建洪水风险可视化，比传统的GIS和其他方法更好地将专家知识与社区需求结合起来。它还提供了一个公众可访问的框架和资源中心，以提高社区的防洪能力，并为社区参与的研究提供了一个可转移的模式，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估来支持。影响审查标准。

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.