BRITE Synergy: Developing and Validating a Framework for Measuring Resilience in Low-Income Housing in the Post-Pandemic World

一系列灾害-包括洪水、飓风、台风、猛烈风暴、地震、基础设施倒塌和大流行病-对社会中的穷人和最弱势群体构成最大威胁，因为他们更有可能生活在更容易受到这些灾害影响的家中。仅仅依靠“硬”工程和基础设施解决方案无法解决这个问题。这个促进工程学变革和公平进步的研究思路（BRITE）项目旨在将过去研究的结果与一系列多层次利益相关者参与活动的结果整合到一个框架中，该框架整合了人力，社会和自然资本在减少脆弱性和提高复原力方面的作用。其目的是为特别脆弱的低收入住房社区确定提高复原力的可行途径。这些研究活动旨在解决对多种灾害事件和类型的复原力问题，并重点关注目标人口中的低收入住房居民这一亚群体的特点。将通过从弱势群体的经验中汲取教训的多层次利益攸关方案例研究方法，审查复原力的来源和决定因素。将进行敏感性分析，以确定什么是和什么是不太可能支持低收入住房对特定冲击的恢复力的可行性指标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

A range of disasters -- including flood, hurricane, typhons, violent storms, earthquakes, collapsed infrastructure, and pandemic -- pose the greatest threat to the poor and most vulnerable in society as they are more likely to live in homes that are more vulnerable to the impact of these disasters. Reliance on ‘hard’ engineering and infrastructure solutions alone cannot solve this problem. This Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering (BRITE) project aims to integrate findings from past research with findings from a series of multi-level stakeholder engagement activities into a framework that integrates the roles of human, social and natural capital in reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience. The aim is to identify viable pathways for improved resilience for particularly vulnerable, low-income housing communities. The research activities are designed to address resilience to multiple disaster events and types, and to focus characteristics of subgroups within the target population: low-income housing residents. Through a multi-level, stakeholder case study approach that draws lessons from the experiences of vulnerable populations, sources and determinants of resilience will be examined. A sensitivity analysis will be performed to identify plausibility indicators for what is and what is not likely to support the resilience of low-income housing to specific sets of shocks.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.