"SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Co-creating Data for Disaster Resilience with Historically Marginalized Communities in Savannah."

在美国的沿海社区，洪水、飓风和热浪等环境灾害在人类和经济影响方面变得越来越普遍和昂贵。新型冠状病毒大流行正在加剧这些影响，并将不平等现象推到前台。该项目拟研究格鲁吉亚萨凡纳环境灾害的社会和自然脆弱性的复合影响，以及促进复原力和恢复的地方政策和做法。拟议的方法优先考虑社会公平和正义，将萨凡纳低收入黑人社区哈德逊山的居民和代表作为研究伙伴。该项目将共同确定和共同创建关于灾害脆弱性和抗灾能力的新数据来源，并在本区域内建立更广泛的利益攸关方网络。该团队还包括来自格鲁吉亚理工学院和萨凡纳州的研究人员，以及来自萨凡纳市可持续发展办公室和环境正义组织Harambee House的官员。新形式的社区为基础的数据探索，整合和映射是必要的，以了解复杂的环境灾害所面临的萨凡纳，格鲁吉亚的居民，特别是边缘化社区的影响。该项目将使用这些新工具来确定脆弱性和复原力在这种情况下意味着什么，然后重新设想这些社区需要从未来灾害中反弹的复原力网络。工作计划包括：1）与社区和组织的社交距离研讨会; 2）关于该地区复原力和脆弱性的初步数据收集和档案研究; 3）社区级研究保护的发展，为数据管理带来社会正义; 4）设计以社区为中心但社交距离远的数据探索和映射技术; 5）为完整的项目提案撰写合作赠款。该项目的智力价值是提高我们对边缘化沿海社区抗灾能力的理解，并建立以社区为中心的新的数据探索和绘图方法，优先考虑数据公正。预计将产生以下更广泛的影响：（1）突出和加强边缘化沿海社区的现有抗灾能力战略;（2）示范大学伙伴关系如何在共同创建数据并将其付诸行动时优先考虑社会公平和正义;（3）规划和建立一个抗灾能力网络，该网络可以利用数据作为集体恢复和再生的规划工具;以及4）在COVID-19的社会距离条件下，建立包容和公平的社区参与研究的新形式。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审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

In coastal communities across the United States, environmental disasters such as flooding, hurricanes, and heatwaves have become increasingly common and costly, both in terms of human and economic impacts. The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating these impacts and bringing inequalities to the fore. This project proposes to study the compounded effects of social and physical vulnerabilities to environmental disasters in Savannah, Georgia, as well as the local policies and practices that promote resilience and recovery. The proposed approach prioritizes social equity and justice by including residents and representatives of Hudson Hill, a lower-income black neighborhood in Savannah, as research partners. Together, the project will identify and co-create new sources of data on disaster vulnerability and resilience and foster broader stakeholder networks within the region. The team also includes researchers from Georgia Tech and Savannah State as well as officials from the City of Savannah Office of Sustainability and the Harambee House, an environmental justice organization. New forms of community-based data exploration, integration, and mapping are necessary to understand the impacts of compounded environmental disasters faced by residents of Savannah, Georgia, particularly marginalized communities. The project will use these new tools to identify what vulnerability and resilience mean in this context, and then reimagine the resilience networks that these communities need to bounce forward from future disasters. The plan of work includes: 1) socially distanced workshops with communities and organizations; 2) preliminary data collection and archival research on resilience and vulnerability in the area; 3) the development of community-level research protections that bring social justice to data stewardship; 4) the of design community-centered but socially distanced data exploration and mapping techniques; and 5) collaborative grant-writing for the full project proposal. The intellectual merit of the project is to improve our understanding of disaster resilience in marginalized coastal communities and to establish new community-centered methods of data exploration and mapping that prioritize data justice. The following broader impacts are anticipated: 1) to highlight and strengthen existing strategies of disaster resilience in marginalized coastal communities; 2) to model how university partnerships might prioritize social equity and justice as they co-create data and put them into action; 3) to chart and establish a resilience network that can leverage data as planning tools for collective recovery and regeneration; and 4) to model new forms of inclusive and equitable community engaged research under social distancing conditions of COVID-19.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.