SCC-PG: Planning for Resilience and Equity through Accessible Community Technology: Developing a Community-Led Planning Tool for Climate Readiness

PREACT(通过可访问的社区技术规划复原力和公平性)是一个多用途和多标量的气候准备和社区规划软件应用程序，根据社区需求和资产提供信息，将在费城试行。虽然大多数规划工具是以自上而下的方式设计和建立的，以软件开发人员和规划者为中心，但该项目将阐明一个技术联合生产框架，该框架充分考虑到社区成员的需求和经验，并允许整合社会和科学数据，以便做出更明智的决策。PREACT将使用户能够指定感兴趣的地理区域，从与气候规划有关的一系列因素中进行选择并权衡其重要性，并生成一张地图，指明最脆弱的地区。PREACT还将通过支持现有社区资产(如公园和其他绿地)、再投资于社区的社会、生态和有形基础设施的机会、更好地在当地执行现有的公共卫生法规以及改变土地使用决策和规划，帮助确定系统地解决脆弱性的方法。将居民群体纳入PREACT的创建确保了支撑PREACT的数据和假设反映了社区的需求和生活经验。通过设计和使用PREACT的过程，我们预计将创造机会，在居民、学者、政府和企业之间就政策干预和基础设施投资的需求和偏好进行更审慎的对话。其目标是共同创建一个社会生态和技术工具，以促进气候适应能力，赋予居民权力，并使政府更好地响应社区需求。PREACT将使用共同设计流程进行设计，以开发交互式规划和数据可视化工具，帮助教育与气候准备和适应的决策和投资相关的权衡取舍的不同利益相关者。通过一系列社区设计讲习班和建立更专门的工作组，该项目将产生：(A)数据收集计划，其中概述所需的投入，包括环境数据、公民科学数据、能源数据、社会经济数据以及关于社区便利设施和风险因素的数据，以及如何收集这些数据；(B)关于如何将各种数据集和表格纳入PREACT软件的数据整合计划，包括量化定性措施和了解各因素相互作用方式的模型；(C)软件开发和数据可视化计划，包括一系列线框图，详细说明PREACT软件将如何工作，解决用户如何与软件交互以及如何进行数据集成、可视化和分析；以及(D)社区参与计划，详细说明社区成员作为公民科学家和规划者实施PREACT的方法。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，认为值得支持。

PREACT (Planning for Resilience and Equity through Accessible Community Technology) is a multipurpose and multi-scalar climate preparedness and neighborhood planning software application informed by community needs and assets, to be piloted in the city of Philadelphia. While most planning tools are designed and built in a top-down manner, centering software developers and planners, this project will articulate a framework for technology co-production that fully takes into account the needs and experiences of community members and allows for the integration of social and scientific data for more informed decision-making. PREACT will enable users to specify a geographical area of interest, choose from and weigh the importance of a range of factors relevant to a climate planning concern, and generate a map indicating areas of greatest vulnerability. PREACT will also help identify ways to systematically address vulnerabilities through support for existing community assets (like parks and other greenspace), opportunities to reinvest in social, ecological, and physical infrastructure in communities, better local enforcement of existing public health regulations, and changes in land-use decisions and planning. The inclusion of resident groups in the creation of PREACT ensures that the data and assumptions that underpin PREACT reflect community need and lived experience. Through the process of designing and using PREACT, we anticipate creating opportunities for a more deliberative dialogue among residents, scholars, government, and business about needs and preferences for policy interventions and infrastructure investments. The goal is to co-create a socio-ecological and technological tool that promotes climate resiliency, empowers residents, and makes the government more responsive to community needs.PREACT will be designed using a co-design process for the development of an interactive planning and data visualization tool to help educate the diverse stakeholder of the trade-off associated with decision making and investments for climate preparedness and adaptation. Through a series of community design workshops and the creation of more specialized working groups, the project will produce (a) a data collection plan that outlines the desired inputs including environmental data, citizen-science data, energy data, socioeconomic data, and data on neighborhood amenities and risk factors, and how they might be collected; (b) a data integration plan for how to incorporate the various data sets and forms into PREACT software, including the quantification of qualitative measures and a model for understanding the ways that factors interact with each other; (c) a software development and data visualization plan involving a series of wireframes detailing how PREACT software will work, addressing both how users interact with the software and how the data integration, visualization, and analysis will be carried out; and (d) a community-engagement plan detailing methods for further engagement of community members as citizen scientists and planners for the implementation of PREACT.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.