Planning: CRISES: Climate Adaptation Solutions Accelerator (CASA) through School-Community Hubs

大学、规划机构和非营利组织正在率先采取措施，帮助历史上服务不足和脆弱的社区科普与气候影响有关的环境变化，如海平面上升、风暴引发的洪水、更长的热浪和越来越多的野火。然而，在迅速和广泛的气候适应外联方面存在着令人生畏的障碍。传统的征求公众意见的形式往往不能在历史上服务不足的社区产生富有成效的社区参与，通过新的社区组织建立信任可能需要数年时间。研究表明，公立学校是社区信任的邻里机构，学校已成功地用于提供其他类型的社区服务。该项目是一项新颖的研究工作，旨在调查学校如何在历史上最容易受到气候变化影响的服务不足的社区中发挥促进社区气候适应的中心作用。该项目支持与三所加州公立学校建立伙伴关系，以建立学校-社区气候适应中心。每个中心利用学校为基础的活动，以支持气候适应在一个脆弱的社区，连接居民到创新的适应解决方案，具体到当地的情况，并建立社区成员之间的关系，相关的城市和县适应规划。该赠款下的活动培养学生制定气候解决方案的能力，改善学校学习成果，在历史上服务不足的社区培养社区气候能力，并推进公正和有效的适应规划。对三个学校-社区气候适应中心的案例研究分析支持为一个新的中心准备提案：通过学校-社区中心的气候适应解决方案加速器（CASA）。在适应气候变化的背景下，学校已经在气候紧急情况下被动员起来作为社区中心，但它们也可以支持快速和广泛的气候准备。通过学校将社区和规划过程联系起来，CASA将建立研究能力和基础设施，以快速和广泛地扩大公正和有效的气候适应解决方案。小武器问题协调行动方案的探索性研究活动侧重于三个关键领域。首先，该项目确定了现有的和所需的资源，用于绘制加州1万所K-12公立学校所在地的每个社区所面临的交叉气候风险。这些数据与学校共享，并用于定制适应创新资源。第二，该项目开发了一个系统，用于确定加州率先推出的基于社区的创新气候适应举措。第三，该项目与三所公立学校和三个气候适应创新者合作，从四个利益攸关方群体的角度调查通过学校-社区中心加速气候适应解决方案的机遇和挑战：历史上服务不足的易受气候变化影响的社区，有兴趣扩大其解决方案活动的气候适应创新者，学校行政和教学人员，以及负责气候适应的城市和县规划者。通过案例研究方法收集的数据进行分析，以确定有效的战略，确定社区的偏好和需求，扩大创新适应解决方案的关键障碍，学校-社区适应中心的潜在组织模板，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进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。

Universities, planning agencies, and non-profit groups are pioneering initiatives to help historically underserved and vulnerable communities cope with environmental changes related to climate impacts, such as rising sea levels, storm-related flooding, longer heat waves, and increasing numbers of wildfires. However, there are daunting barriers to rapid and broad-based climate adaptation outreach. Traditional forms of soliciting public input often do not generate productive community engagement in historically underserved communities, and establishing trust through new community organizations can take years. Research demonstrates that public schools are neighborhood institutions that are trusted by communities and that schools have been used successfully to deliver other types of community services. This project is a novel research effort proposing to investigate how schools can function as hubs for fostering community climate adaptation in the historically underserved communities most vulnerable to climate change. The project supports partnerships with three California public schools to establish school-community climate adaptation hubs. Each hub uses school-based activities to support climate adaptation in a vulnerable neighborhood, to connect residents to innovative adaptation solutions specific to the local context, and to build relationships between community members relevant city and county adaptation planner. The activities under this grant build students’ capacity to develop climate solutions, improve school learning outcomes, foster community climate capabilities in historically underserved communities, and advance just and effective adaptation planning. Case studies analyses of the three school-community climate adaptation hubs support preparation of a proposal for a new center: the Climate Adaptation Solutions Accelerator (CASA) through School-Community Hubs. In the context of climate change adaptation, schools have already been mobilized as community centers during climate emergencies, but they can also support rapid and broad-based climate preparedness. Working through schools to connect communities and planning processes, CASA will build research capacity and infrastructure for the rapid and broad-based scaling of just and effective climate adaptation solutions. Exploratory research activities for CASA focus on three key areas. First, the project identifies existing and needed resources for mapping the intersecting climate risks facing each neighborhood that is home to one of California’s 10,000 K-12 public schools. These data are shared with schools and used to customize adaptation innovation resources. Second, the project develops a system for identifying innovative community-based climate adaptation initiatives being pioneered in California. Third, working in collaboration with three public schools and three climate adaptation innovators, the project investigates the opportunities and challenges of accelerating climate adaptation solutions through school-community hubs from the perspective of four stakeholder groups: historically underserved communities vulnerable to climate change, climate adaptation innovators interested in scaling their solutions activities, school administrative and teaching personnel, and city and county planners responsible for climate adaptation. Data collected via case study methods are analyzed to identify effective strategies for ascertaining community preferences and needs, key obstacles to scaling innovative adaptation solutions, potential organizational templates for school-community adaptation hubs, and the needs and preferences of local policymakers.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.