RII Track-1: Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructures driven by Social Equity (ARISE)

在应对极端事件的复原力和救济工作中，目前缺少对公平和代表性不足群体的考虑。“社会公平驱动的适应性和弹性基础设施”（ARISE）项目将开发一个社会公平驱动的复原力分析范式，并为决策者和社区领导人提供一个渠道，以改变社区投资和管理物质和人力基础设施的方式。围绕四个主题，ARISE研究旨在创新和改变堪萨斯州社区在面对危险和灾害时如何考虑恢复力。这些主题得到了广泛的社区参与、社区参与的研究以及教育和外展内容的支持。ARISE项目将增加数据科学、机器学习、复杂网络建模、决策和风险管理科学以及社会公平方面的研究、教育和培训能力。该项目还将为“智能”社区和城市奠定基础，同时创造新的产业，留住高素质的堪萨斯州专业人员。ARISE将由堪萨斯大学与堪萨斯州立大学、威奇托州立大学、贝克大学、唐纳利学院和七所堪萨斯州社区学院合作管理。社会公平驱动的适应性和弹性基础设施（ARISE）项目围绕四个研究主题。主题1侧重于理解公平衡量和相互依存的基础设施系统；主题2开发了一个评估框架；主题3考虑了四个假设检验的案例研究；主题4将研究整合到决策杠杆案例研究和决策支持工具中。ARISE将在堪萨斯州建立学术研究能力，用于技术支持的“智能和弹性”基础设施研究，以改变农村和弱势社区，这些社区通常在“智能城市”研究中代表性不足。该项目是基于这样一种认识，即灾后恢复政策和项目一直系统性地偏向于服务不足的社区成员，如无家可归者、残疾人、生活贫困的人、少数民族、少数民族和土著居民。该项目寻求解决的主要差距是缺乏对弹性框架、政策和工具公平性的关注。ARISE将研究灾害、资源和公平之间的关系，并将开发一个随机的异功能图理论框架，以理解相互依赖的人类和物理基础设施。该研究将采用六维方法来衡量社会公平（社区资本）。ARISE研究与能力建设和推广活动相结合，包括本科生跨学科夏季研究经验，与服务不足社区的博物馆和图书馆合作，促进青年和家庭参与STEM，以及为市政规划者和公用事业运营商提供劳动力发展计划。该项目将使研究人员和教育工作者站在弹性科学和工程领域的最前沿，从而提高堪萨斯州的研究能力。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。

Considerations of equity and underrepresented groups are currently missing from resilience and relief efforts in response to extreme events. The Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructures driven by Social Equity (ARISE) project will develop a social-equity-driven paradigm for resilience analysis as well as a pipeline of decision makers and community leaders for the transformation of how communities invest in and manage physical and human infrastructure. Framed around four themes, ARISE research aims to innovate and transform how communities in Kansas consider resilience in the face of hazards and disasters. These themes are supported by extensive community engagement, community engaged research, and education and outreach components. The ARISE project will increase research, education, and training capacity in data science, machine learning, complex network modeling, decision and risk management science, and social equity. This project will also develop the foundation for “smart” communities and cities while creating new industries that retain highly qualified Kansas professionals. ARISE will be administered by the University of Kansas in collaboration with Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Baker University, Donnelly College, and seven Kansas community colleges.The Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructures driven by Social Equity (ARISE) project is framed around four research themes. Theme 1 focuses on understanding equity measurements and interdependent infrastructure systems; Theme 2 develops an evaluation framework; Theme 3 considers four case studies for hypothesis testing; and Theme 4 integrates research into decision-lever case studies and decision support tools. ARISE will build academic research capacity in Kansas for technology-enabled “smart and resilient” infrastructure research to transform rural and vulnerable communities that are typically underrepresented in “smart cities” research. The project is based on the recognition that disaster recovery policies and programs have been systematically biased against underserved community members such as the homeless, the disabled, those living in poverty, minorities, and ethnic and indigenous populations. The major gap the project seeks to address is this lack of attention to equity in resilience frameworks, policy, and tools. ARISE will examine the relationship between disasters, resources, and equity and will develop a stochastic hetero-functional, graph-theoretic framework for understanding interdependent human and physical infrastructures. The research will apply a six-dimensional approach for measuring social equity (community capitals). ARISE research is integrated with capacity building and outreach activities including interdisciplinary summer research experiences for undergraduates, partnerships with museums and libraries in underserved communities to promote youth and family STEM engagement, and workforce development programs for municipal planners and utility operators. The project will enable researchers and educators to be at the forefront of the resilience science and engineering arena, leading to enhanced research capacity in Kansas.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.