CIVIC-PG Track A: Coastal smart network for implementing equitable adaptation in Santa Cruz, CA

本研究通过可负担的、以公平为中心的协作适应工具，为加利福尼亚州圣克鲁斯市共同制定了一项智能沿海变化监测计划，该计划可被其他沿海城市和社区采用和推广。沿海城市对气候变化的适应受到监测关键临界点的能力以及公众参与和支持不足的限制。为了应对气候变化和海平面上升，圣克鲁斯市开发了一系列适应路径，这些路径作为迭代路线图，提供了当系统接近其临界点时触发的级联行动序列。在这一阶段，通过对系统的监测表明，将触发下一阶段的适应。民间组织已经为当地的海滩、悬崖、悬崖和海岸保护抛石确定了这些触发因素。然而，目前面临的问题是，是否有负担得起的技术来测量这些系统，以便能够迅速、明确和准确地确定接近触发点的方法，并使社区为下一阶段的适应工作提供支持。这项研究的重点是创建一个基于计算机的仪表板，以协助交互式决策，并使社区意识到情况和即将发生的变化，并为他们提供一种工具，使他们能够更有效、更及时地与城市和民间组织合作，以适应并进入下一阶段。社区参与计划考察了形成政策的权力动态，这对于脆弱社区在社会学习中整合科学至关重要。第三，包括虚拟现实和游戏化在内的创新通信技术可以在适应气候灾害方面建立公平的愿景和共识。这项工作的更广泛影响包括将城市、沿海变化、监测技术与其他数据相结合，以扩大地理覆盖范围，为土地利用管理者和决策者提供信息，并改善沿海灾害预测。它还可以用于开发新的洪水/侵蚀预警系统，并促进适应，当地社区的理解和支持。其次，该项目促进了对如何监测社会和地球物理触发因素的理解。本研究解决了两个主要问题：(1)什么样的技术和实践配置能够经济有效地为异质海岸线建立智能海岸变化监测网络，增强数据驱动的灾害准备，并在其他环境中可复制；(2)什么样的技术和通信工具集成具有成本效益、可持续性，并促进社区参与、决策和与不同群体就风险解决方案进行公平合作？可复制性的财务因素将为技术选择、软件和网络配置、部署计划、公民参与和项目的长期维护提供信息。将根据现有数据、成本和社区参与，如使用智能手机和社交媒体、视频检测、遥感和其他解决方案，探索现有和新技术方案。对于第一个问题，这项工作与一线社区团体共同制定了一项沟通和参与计划，其中包括具有文化敏感性的社区外展。这些团体参与规划和范围界定活动，在先前合作的基础上，共同设计城市中的创新互动工具（例如虚拟现实、手机应用程序和游戏），旨在提高弱势社区对沿海灾害规划的参与。这项工作将为后续活动（CIVIC Stage 2提案）做准备，并将实施一个试点项目，以测试与监测网络相互作用的设计和工具，以建立复原力。如果成功，这项工作将可扩展并推广到其他沿海城市和社区。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。

This research co-develops a smart coastal change monitoring plan for the city of Santa Cruz, California via affordable, equity-centered tools for collaborative adaptation that can be adopted and scaled to other coastal cities and communities. Adaptation of coastal cities to climate change is limited by their capacity to monitor key tipping points as well as insufficient public engagement and buy-in. To combat climate change and sea level rise, the city of Santa Cruz has developed a series of adaptation pathways that serve as iterative roadmaps providing a cascading sequence of actions that are triggered when a system gets close to its tipping point. At this stage, which is indicated by monitoring of the system, the next phase of adaptation is triggered. Such triggers have already been defined by the civic organizations for local beaches, cliffs, bluffs, and shore protecting riprap. The issue being faced, however, is having affordable technology for measuring these systems so approach to the trigger point can be quickly, unequivocally, and accurately identified and having community buy-in for the next stage of adaption. This research focused on creating a computer-based dashboard for to assist in interactive decision making as well as creating community awareness of the situation and impending changes and providing a vehicle for them to engage more effectively and in a timely manner with city and civic organizations on the adaptation and moving to the next stage. The community engagement plan examines the power dynamics that shape policy which is essential to inform integration of science within social learning by vulnerable communities. Third, innovative communication technologies, including virtual reality and gamification, can build equitable visions and consensus around adaptation to climate hazards. Broader impacts of the work include integration of city, coastal change, monitoring technologies with other data to extend geographic coverage, inform land use managers and decision makers, as well as improve coastal hazard prediction. It can also be used to develop new flood/erosion warning systems and advance adaptation local community understanding and buy-in. Second, the project advances understanding of how to monitor both social and geophysical triggers. This research addressed two prime questions: (1) What configuration of technologies and practices cost-effectively establishes a smart coastal change monitoring network for a heterogenous coastline, enhances data-driven hazard preparedness, and is replicable in other settings and (2) What integration of technology and communication tools are cost-effective, sustainable and foster community engagement, decision-making, and equity working with diverse groups on risk solutions? Financial factors for replicability will inform choices of technologies, software and network configuration, the deployment plan, civic engagement, and long-term maintenance of the program. Existing and new technology options will be explored based on available data, cost, and community involvement such as using smartphones and social media, video detection, remote sensing and other solutions. For the first question, this work co-develops, with frontline community groups, a communications and engagement plan that includes culturally sensitive community outreach. The groups participate in planning and scoping activities, building on prior collaboration in co-designing innovative interaction tools in the City (e.g., virtual reality, phone apps and games) designed to increase participation of vulnerable communities in coastal hazards planning. This work will be in preparation of a follow-on activity (CIVIC Stage 2 proposal) from which a pilot project will be implemented to test designs and tools that interact with the monitoring network to build resilience. If successful, this work would be scalable and translatable to other coastal cities and communities.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.