CoPe RCN: Resilient Rural Infrastructure

1940319(费洛克)。恢复力农村基础设施RCN将探索和实现海湾沿岸社区的适应能力和复原力，这有可能扩展到美国其他农村社区的基础设施复原力。了解在不同的城市和农村环境中促进和支持飓风复原力效力的因素可以导致制定战略和政策，以优化成功和包容各方的未来和长期战略适应和执行计划。最初的重点是佛罗里达州狭长地带，并将在两年和三年内扩大到墨西哥湾沿岸的社区和机构。新的RCN的活动包括：集体制定一个基于共识的农村依赖机制；创建一个网络机制以招募更多的参与者和更新工作组；为已确定的分领域制定新的研究方向；评估网络的成功；以及为不同背景的研究生制定一个创新的学习计划。区域协调网络将致力于一套新的理论，以探索关于如何在沿海社区实现适应能力和复原力的假设。区域协调网络将把原本无法联网的不同领域的研究人员聚集在一起，组成工作组，重点讨论三个主题框架内的理解问题：有弹性的农村基础设施能力和创新；治理和规划；以及社区参与。该网络的研究议程将使研究人员能够努力找到影响人们、他们的社区和社区未来生活的解决方案。通过与RCN的组织和社区合作伙伴共同产生知识，将能够开发新的理论和方法，帮助社区领导人和地方官员规划能力建设和执行决策，以准备和应对冲击，并为人类和自然环境制定平衡的可持续解决方案。网络管理小组将通过招聘研究生助理和网络参与者，实施促进多样性的机制。网络参与者将基于结果驱动的、多样化的和个性化的学习机制的概念，为发展独特的跨学科学习计划做出贡献。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。

1940319 (Feiock). The RCN for Resilient Rural Infrastructure will explore and achieve adaptive capacity and resilience for Gulf coastal communities, which has the potential to extend to infrastructure resilience of other rural communities in the United States. Understanding the factors that foster and support the efficacy of hurricane resilience in varying urban and rural settings can lead to strategies and policies that will optimize successful and all-inclusive future and long-term strategic adaptation and implementation plans. The initial focus is on the Florida Panhandle and will be expanded in years two and three to communities and institutions along the Gulf of Mexico coast. The activities of the new RCN include: Collectively develop a consensus-based mechanism for rural reliance; create a networking mechanism to recruit additional participants and update working groups; develop new research directions for identified subareas; evaluate the success of the network; and develop an innovative learning program for graduate students of diverse backgrounds.This RCN aims to foster a new understanding of the complex interactions among the key elements of community resilience in rural coastline areas. The RCN will work towards a set of new theories to explore hypotheses regarding how to achieve adaptive capacity and resilience in coastal communities. The RCN will bring together researchers from different fields, who otherwise would not be able to network together, to form working groups focusing on understanding within three thematic frameworks: Resilient rural infrastructure capacity and innovation; Governance and planning; and Community engagement. The network's research agenda will allow researchers to work towards solutions impacting people, their communities, and the future of lives in the communities. Through co-production of knowledge with the RCN's organizational and community partners, the development of new theories and methods will be enabled that could help community leaders and local officials planning capacity building and implementation decisions in preparing for and responding to shocks and in developing balanced sustainable solutions for both the human and natural environments. The network management team will implement a mechanism to promote diversity by recruiting graduate assistants and network participants. The network participants will contribute to the development of a unique interdisciplinary learning program, based on the concept of an outcome-driven, diverse, and individualized learning mechanism.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.