Focused CoPe: Fundamental research to inform holistic decision-making for historically underrepresented communities impacted by coastal hazards

由于飓风、海啸、沿海风暴潮、洪水、海平面上升和侵蚀等各种急性和慢性危害，沿海社区越来越多地遭受灾害。 加强社区对这些灾害的复原力需要规划和有效利用社区资源，但也需要对沿海灾害、建筑环境、地理人口、社会和文化因素之间的动态相互作用有新的认识。 特别面临风险的是北方墨西哥湾沿岸从得克萨斯州到佛罗里达的沿着部落社区，它们面临着与非部落沿海社区类似的风险，但也面临着更多的风险，如多种危害的破坏或历史财产/遗址和文化遗产的全部损失，以及可能举办文化仪式或种植经济和文化传统所需的传统环境产品的自治地区。该项目将为制定科学和循证决策战略以及未来针对边缘化社区的减灾计划提供信息，这些战略和计划将易于在北方墨西哥湾沿岸部落社区实施。研究成果预计将转移到其他地点和可扩展。 通过综合和融合的研究方法，该中心将建立一个跨学科的框架，以量化沿海灾害，建筑环境，地理人口以及社会和文化因素之间的相互依存关系，从而为旨在最大限度地减少沿海灾害对历史上代表性不足的社区的社会经济影响的整体决策提供信息。该项目将通过社区活动、调查、圆桌会议和讨论论坛，确定关键的社区需求、优先事项和关注事项，确定关键问题，共同收集数据和征求专业知识，共同开发和完善研究，并创建评估指标。这一框架将通过参与研究和体验演练，以了解，评估，衡量和提高复原力，从北方墨西哥湾沿岸部落社区和文化保护遗址收集的经验数据进行验证。 拟议的研究将产生一套不同的模型和决策工具，用于衡量沿海灾害影响，基础设施损坏，疏散性能和社会脆弱性，这些都将通过参与式研究整合到社区资源中，以评估和优化各种适应和缓解战略，并优先考虑政策杠杆。该项目将开发一个参与计划，以支持从部落社区进入并通过研究生院的高中生的管道。该项目将通过社区参与研究实现人类学，考古学，城市规划和工程学科的跨学科整合。在此过程中，该项目将与部落社区建立和保持有效的伙伴关系，以采取系统的办法，促进社会信任，确保将社区驱动的研究问题和决策纳入该项目。研究目标是：（1）量化沿海和海岸引起的灾害;（2）量化灾害对物质和社会基础设施的影响;（3）衡量社区疏散能力，查明知情决策和应急规划方面的差距;（4）制定理论驱动的方法，以收集和分析各种数据类型以及关于社会和有形基础设施系统适应的地方观点，（5）优化社区决策并确定其优先次序，以减轻影响，并根据社区的需要提高社区的适应能力。核心社区参与的数据收集将独特地解决量化数据的建模需求，这些数据涉及部落社区如何经历和感知沿海灾害，如何应对此类灾害，以及地图表达（地理信息系统地图），风险资源和基础设施。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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

Coastal communities increasingly experience disasters due to a combination of acute and chronic hazards, including hurricanes, tsunamis, coastal storm surges, flooding, sea level rise and erosion. Enhancing community resilience to these hazards requires planning and effective use of community resources, but also new knowledge on the dynamic interplay among coastal hazards, built environment, geodemographics, and social as well as cultural factors. Particularly at risk are tribal communities along the Northern Gulf Coast, from Texas to Florida, that face similar risks as non-tribal coastal communities do but are also confronted with additional risks such as multi-hazard damages or entire loss of historical properties/sites and cultural heritage, as well as their autonomous areas that may host cultural rituals or grow traditional environmental products needed for economic and cultural traditions. This project will inform the creation of science- and evidence-based decision-making strategies and future hazard mitigation plans for marginalized communities that will be readily implementable to Northern Gulf Coast tribal communities. The research outcomes are expected to be both transferable to other locations and scalable. Through an integrative and convergent research approach, this Hub will establish an interdisciplinary framework to quantify the interdependence among coastal hazards, built environment, geodemographics, and social and cultural factors, thus informing holistic decision-making aimed at minimizing the socio-economic impact of coastal hazards to historically underrepresented communities. This project, via community events, surveys, roundtables and discussion forums, will identify critical community needs, priorities, and concerns, determine key issues, co-collect data and solicit expertise, co-develop and refine research and create evaluation metrics. This framework will be validated with empirical data collected from tribal communities in the Northern Gulf Coast and cultural preservation sites through engaged research and experiential drills in order to understand, assess, measure, and enhance resilience. The proposed research will result in a diverse set of models and decision-making tools for measuring Coastal Hazards Impact, Infrastructure Damages, Evacuation Performance, and Social Vulnerability which will all be integrated through engaged participatory research into a community resource to evaluate and optimize various adaptation and mitigation strategies and prioritize policy levers. This project will develop an engagement program to support a pipeline for high school students from tribal communities into and through graduate school.This project will achieve a novel transdisciplinary integration of anthropology, archeology, urban planning and engineering disciplines via community engaged research. In doing so, the project will establish and sustain effective partnerships with tribal communities to pursue a systematic approach that promotes social trust to ensure community-driven research questions and decision-making are incorporated in this project. The research objectives are to: (1) Quantify coastal and coast-induced hazards; (2) Quantify the impacts of hazards on physical and social infrastructure; (3) Measure community evacuation capabilities and identify gaps for informed decision-making and emergency planning; (4) Develop theoretical-driven methods for collection and analysis of various data types and local perspectives on adaptation of social and physical infrastructure systems, and (5) Optimize and prioritize community decision-making to mitigate impacts and improve adaptation of communities according to their needs. The core community-engaged data collection will uniquely address the modeling need for quantified data on how tribal communities experience and perceive coastal hazards, how to respond to such hazards, as well as cartographic expressions (GIS maps) of at-risk resources and infrastructure.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.