SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: Youth-Centered Civic Technology and Citizen Science for Improving Community Heat Resilience Infrastructure

城市面临的一个挑战，特别是在全球气候变化的情况下，是找到有效的方法来保护居民免受极端高温的伤害。在城市中，历史上被边缘化的社区往往有明显的较高温度和较少的经济和社会资源来减轻热量的影响。这些群体参与规划城市如何应对高温至关重要。为了提高城市对气温上升和热浪的抵御能力，该项目开发了一个公民参与的规划流程，将战略部署的传感器技术与社区知情数据中心相结合，以预测最需要减少热量干预的地区。该项目将通过与公共决策过程相结合的公民科学项目，培训城市青年收集、监测和交流城市温度和高温体验数据。该项目涉及来自弗吉尼亚州罗阿诺克市的学术、政府、公立学校、非营利组织和居民合作伙伴。该项目结合了居民和组织学习过程、社会信任、协调和长期适应所需的治理能力之间的新联系。该项目建立在之前在弗吉尼亚州罗阿诺克实施的基于地点的STEM和城市规划公民科学项目的基础上，目前的公民科学工作将扩大到包括可穿戴温度传感器和固定温度监测设备的部署，以及使用Photovoice方法培训年轻人，使用摄影记录热量对社区的影响，同时学习城市规划语言。关键的研究问题包括：(1)非正式教育者如何描述杠杆点，以吸引家庭参与公民科学和耐热性？(2)公民技术如何帮助建立必要的合作，积极应对城市的极端高温？(3)如何为不同类型的数据设计数字基础设施，以帮助居民和政府官员理解极端高温问题和热恢复的优先事项？成果包括部署一个公民技术平台，该平台将与政府官员、居民和学术合作伙伴共同设计，以整合通过青年和家庭参与产生的定量和定性数据，以及开发可复制的材料和方法，以增加公民的多样化参与，提高城市抵御气候变化影响的能力。该项目是对“公民创新挑战”项目（track a）的回应：在不断变化的气候中生活：围绕适应、恢复和缓解的灾前行动——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。

One challenge for cities, especially under conditions of global climate change, is developing effective ways to keep residents safe from extreme heat. Within cities, historically marginalized neighborhoods often have measurably higher temperatures and fewer economic and social resources to mitigate the impacts of heat. The participation of these groups in planning how cities address heat is critical. To improve urban resilience to increasing temperatures and heat waves, this project develops a civic-engaged planning process that integrates strategically deployed sensor technologies with a community-informed data hub to forecast areas most in need of heat reduction intervention. The project will train city youth to collect, monitor, and communicate data on urban temperatures and experiences of heat through a citizen science program integrated with public decision-making processes. This project involves academic, government, public schools, nonprofit, and resident partners from the City of Roanoke, Virginia.This project incorporates novel linkages between processes of resident and organizational learning, social trust, coordination, and governance capacity necessary for long-term adaptation. The project builds on a previous place-based STEM and urban planning citizen science program implemented in Roanoke, VA. The current citizen science efforts will be expanded to include the deployment of wearable temperature sensors and stationary temperature monitoring equipment, as well as training youth in Photovoice methods using photography to document the effects of heat on their communities while simultaneously learning the language of urban planning. Key research questions include: (1) How do informal educators characterize leverage points to engage families around citizen science and heat resilience? (2) How can civic technologies help forge collaborations necessary to proactively address extreme heat in cities? and (3) How can digital infrastructure for diverse types of data be designed to facilitate how residents and government officials make sense of the problem of extreme heat and priorities for heat resilience? Outcomes include the deployment of a civic technology platform that will be co-designed with government officials, residents, and academic partners to incorporate the quantitative and qualitative data generated through youth and family engagement, as well as the development of replicable materials and methods to increase diverse citizen participation in increased urban resilience to the impacts of climate change.This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program—Track A. Living in a changing climate: pre-disaster action around adaptation, resilience, and mitigation—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.