CIVIC-PG Track B: Creating the West Virginia Flood Resilience Framework for comprehensive disaster response and long-term community recovery

社区复原力是指社区承受和减轻灾害压力的能力，是从洪水等自然灾害中长期恢复的关键组成部分。社区恢复能力需要有效的灾前规划和协调参与灾害应对的行动者的复杂网络。西弗吉尼亚州（WV）的每个县都有很高的洪水风险，而这些风险因降水频率和强度的增加、基础设施老化和高度的社会经济脆弱性而加剧。该项目是学术研究人员和民间行动者之间的合作，将确定在2016年西弗吉尼亚州大洪水的响应和恢复工作中吸取的经验教训。这场洪水摧毁了几个小镇，造成23人死亡，整个州的损失超过10亿美元。到2022年，一些社区仍然没有完全恢复，2016年事件的教训尚未明确确定，也没有纳入当地或全州的规划。公民创新挑战（Civic）项目的研究结果将反馈给社区和政策制定者，用于未来的规划工作，并为增强韧性筹集资金。该团队将以规划赠款的见解为基础，开发第二阶段项目，创建西弗吉尼亚州抗洪框架（WVFRF），这将是一个全面的在线工具包，为社区提供协调和能力建设所需的知识，为未来的洪水做准备，这将广泛应用于美国各地的洪水易发社区。该项目的目标是确定在组织能力、跨组织协调和洪水风险知识方面的差距，这些差距需要填补，以实现西弗吉尼亚州更全面的洪水响应和长期洪水恢复。该小组将整合来自全国范围内的调查结果、参与式地理信息系统（PGIS）以及两个影响长期恢复成功的不同社会经济脆弱性的案例研究地点的焦点小组，以全面了解洪水响应和恢复方面的差距。由于将定量、定性和PGIS方法进行了新颖的整合，该项目将为在社会经济脆弱的社区建立抵御自然灾害的能力的学术研究提供见解，同时也为社区参与的研究提供了独特的跨学科模型，该模型以知识的共同生产为中心，并为灾害响应和恢复创造了综合方法。该项目是对公民创新挑战项目（track b）的回应，旨在弥合基本资源与服务和社区需求之间的差距，是国家科学基金会、国土安全部和能源部之间的合作项目。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。

Community resilience is the ability of communities to withstand and mitigate the stress of a disaster and is a key component of long-term recovery from natural disasters such as floods. Community resilience requires effective pre-disaster planning and coordination of the complex network of actors involved in disaster response. Every county in West Virginia (WV) has a high risk of flooding and these risks are compounded by increasing frequency and intensity of precipitation, aging infrastructure, and high levels of socioeconomic vulnerability. This project is a collaboration between academic researchers and civic actors and will identify lessons learned during response and recovery efforts to a major flood in 2016 in WV. This flood devastated several small towns, killed 23 people, and caused over $1 billion in damage across the state. In 2022, some communities still have not made a full recovery and lessons from the 2016 event have yet to be clearly identified or incorporated into local or statewide planning. Project findings from this Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) project will be reported back to communities and policymakers to be used in future planning efforts, as well as to procure funding to increase resilience. The team will build on insights from the planning grant to develop a Stage 2 project to create the West Virginia Flood Resilience Framework (WVFRF), which will be a comprehensive online toolkit to empower communities with the knowledge they need for coordination and capacity building to prepare for future floods, which will have broad application to flood-prone communities across the US.The goals of this project are to determine the gaps in organizational capacity, cross-organization coordination, and flood risk knowledge that need to be filled for more comprehensive flood response and long-term flood recovery in WV. The team will integrate findings from a county-wide survey, Participatory GIS (PGIS), and focus groups in two case study sites with different levels of socioeconomic vulnerability that impacted success of long-term recovery to provide a comprehensive understanding of gaps in flood response and recovery. As a result of a novel integration of quantitative, qualitative, and PGIS methods, the project will have insights for scholarship on building resilience to natural disaster in socioeconomically vulnerable communities while also presenting a unique transdisciplinary model for community-engaged research that centers co-production of knowledge and creates a comprehensive approach to disaster response and recovery.This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program—Track B. Bridging the gap between essential resources and services & community needs—and is a collaboration between NSF, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Energy.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.