SCC-PG: Enhancing Community Engagement in Flood Mitigation Using Integrated Hydrodynamic Modeling and Multi-Scale Socio-Economic Risk Assessment

该项目将与易发洪水社区的社区利益相关者和团体合作，共同开发技术工具，促进对洪水风险的更广泛和更全面的了解，从而促进对减轻洪水影响的战略的共识和支持，从而减少洪水的破坏性和代价高昂的影响。该项目将与社区利益相关者密切合作，为不同群体提供易于理解的信息和定制的工具，以参与决策并发现促进解决冲突的共同点。项目团队将支持小组确定他们当前的知识差距和工具偏好，促进知识交换和决策制定的适当技术的开发。此外，这项技术的共同开发将促进个人和社区规模的社会资本发展。通过项目产生的教育和合作机会，以社区为基础的团体和组织将在应对洪水风险方面变得更加紧密和聪明。通过信息和通信技术的创新来提高科学水平，以应对洪水风险和缓解洪水，该项目将支持美国国家科学基金会的使命，即在应对洪水风险和支持经济上可行和可持续的缓解洪水的解决方案时，促进科学进步，促进国家健康、繁荣和福利。本规划项目的目标是确定水文信息学技术的最新进展，包括水动力学建模、地理空间可视化和用于社会经济分析的异构数据融合，如何使洪水易发社区的不同利益攸关方了解洪水风险，并参与制定和支持减轻洪水的战略。感兴趣的社区是美国路易斯安那州的拉斐特教区，它是美国其他社区因气候和土地利用变化而面临日益增加的洪水风险的典范。最近的研究表明，不同程度的风险感知会影响一个社区的凝聚力。个体风险通常是通过一个特定地点是否在过去的洪水中被淹没来理解的，而不能在社区层面上捕捉到整个相互关联的维度。缓解项目的潜在效益往往是确定的，没有考虑到气候变率或预计的土地利用变化。除了个人风险之外，经济和社会条件也会放大特定人群和群体面临的风险。该项目的目标是：(1)测试关于可能解决方案的研究假设，以达成与洪水风险相关的社区共识，并在个人和社区层面上制定应对这些风险的共同愿景；(2)完善利用水文信息技术克服这些挑战的概念框架。在这个项目中，我们将开展访谈和互动研讨会，让不同的利益相关者参与：a)评估有关洪水风险的信息差距；b)确定基于网络的应用程序，整合水动力建模、地理空间可视化和社会经济分析，以加强多个部门的参与和协作；c)开发技术驱动的参与工具，了解利益相关者的需求。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

This project will work with community stakeholders and groups in flood-prone communities to codevelop technological tools that will promote a broader and more comprehensive understanding of flood risks stimulating consensus and support for flood mitigation strategies that can reduce the devastating and costly impacts of flooding. Working closely with community stakeholders, the project will provide diverse groups access to easily comprehensible information and customized tools to engage in decision making and discover common ground facilitating conflict resolution. The project team will support groups in identifying their current knowledge gaps and tool preferences, facilitating the development of appropriate technology for knowledge exchange and decision making. Additionally, the co-development of this technology will enhance social capital development at the individual and community scale. Through project generated educational and partnership opportunities, community-based groups and organizations will become more connected and smarter in dealing with flood risks. By advancing the state of the science through innovations in information and communication technologies to address flood risk and mitigation, the project will support the National Science Foundation’s mission to promote the progress of science and advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare when addressing flood risks and supporting economically viable and sustainable solutions for flood mitigation.The objective of this planning project is to identify how recent advances in hydroinformatics technologies including hydrodynamic modeling, geospatial visualization, and fusion of heterogeneous data for socioeconomic analysis, can empower diverse stakeholders in flood-prone communities to understand flood risks and engage in formulating and supporting flood mitigation strategies. The community of interest is Lafayette Parish in Louisiana, USA, that exemplifies experiences of other US communities facing increasing flood risks caused by climate and land use changes. Recent research indicates that disparate levels of risk perception impact a community’s ability to function cohesively. Individual risk is often understood through the lens of whether a particular location was flooded in a past flood, failing to capture the whole interconnected dimensions at the community level. Potential benefits of mitigation projects are often presented as deterministic without accounting for climate variability or projected land use changes. In addition to individual risk, economic and social conditions can amplify risks to specific populations and groups with communities. The goals of this project are: (1) to test research hypotheses on possible solutions for reaching community consensus related to flooding risks and developing a shared vision for addressing these risks at individual and community scales; and (2) to refine a conceptual framework for using hydroinformatics technologies to overcome these challenges. In this project, we will conduct interviews and interactive workshops engaging diverse stakeholders to: a) assess information gaps about flood risk, b) identify web-based applications integrating hydrodynamic modeling, geospatial visualization, and socioeconomic analysis to enhance engagement and collaboration across multiple sectors, and c) develop technology-driven engagement tools informed by stakeholder needs.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.