Planning: SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: Recovering from Expected Flooding Under Residential Buildings (REFURB)

翻新将使用技术来改善对影响密歇根州底特律东区的持续和日益严重的地下室洪水的恢复和准备工作。我们的重点是一些社区，这些社区包含与老化的下水道系统相连的老房子，由于种族驱动的开发政策和投资决策，这些系统规模较小，维护不善。最近的研究探索了通过景观变化来管理雨水的局限性，但成功与否取决于土壤类型、植物、大小和风暴的频率。在沿海社区，房屋需要“安全地倒塌”，因为洪水目前是不可避免的。与美国国家科学基金会的使命一致，这项工作将推动科学进步，以改善个人福祉。翻新还将提高伙伴关系的效力，这些伙伴关系是必要的，但目前还不存在。此外，在这项工作中建立的数据和知识将被用于将社区观点纳入课程，以加强社会工作者、通信专业人员和工程师在应对气候变化和减灾方面工作的渠道。该项目的目标是：(1)使用洪灾损失报告、环境和其他数据来制定临时的概念验证级风险地图，用于针对关键基础设施的适应，以减轻未来洪灾的脆弱性；(2)根据与风险社区共同努力改善防洪、气候适应和数据获取的参与性行动案例研究，描述有效和公平的灾难恢复和减轻所需的属性和支持；以及(3)通过与高危社区的参与性行动案例研究，发展对社会结构、系统和社区科学知识的理解，为缺乏数字接入的居民提供预警、应对和洪水风险准备所必需的知识。REFREB将召集受影响社区居民的工作组，共同编写支持应对气候引发的洪水的复原力(即灾害后恢复到新常态的能力)所需的知识。第一个目标将包括更好的技术来评估住宅下水道的状况，并优化基础设施投资。融合的方法与强大的社区参与相结合，将确保关于创新技术的知识将是可扩展和可推广的。第二，在现有伙伴关系的基础上，该项目将制定一个以社区为基础的框架，以提高对气候变化的适应能力。第三，在并非所有社区都有智能手机的社区，该项目将推进用于沟通风险和增强灾难恢复的技术。通过了解社区居民如何与使房屋“安全到可以倒塌”所需的技术相互作用，研究结果将向经历气候引发洪水的其他城市社区提供信息。该项目是对公民创新挑战计划的回应-轨道A。生活在不断变化的气候：围绕适应、弹性和缓解的灾难前行动-是NSF、国土安全部和能源部的合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

REFURB will use technology to improve recovery from and preparation for persistent and increasingly severe basement flooding that impacts the Eastside of Detroit, Michigan. Our focus is in neighborhoods that contain older homes connected to aging sewer systems that are undersized, and poorly maintained due to racially driven development policy and investment decisions. Recent research has explored the limitations of managing stormwater through landscape changes, but success is contingent on the type of soil, plants, size, and frequency of storms. In coastal communities, homes need to be “safe to fail” because flooding is currently inevitable. Consistent with NSF’s mission, this work will progress science to improve individual well-being. REFURB will also lead to increased effectiveness of partnerships, which are needed, but do not presently exist. Additionally, data and knowledge built during this work will be used to integrate community perspectives into curricula to enhance a pipeline for social workers, communications professionals, and engineers to work in climate resilience and disaster mitigation. The project's goals are to: (1) Use flood damage reports, environmental and other data to develop provisional, proof-of-concept level risk maps to be used to target adaptations of critical infrastructure to mitigate future flooding vulnerability; (2) Describe the attributes and supports required for effective and equitable disaster recovery and mitigation based on a participatory action case study with at-risk communities working to improve flood prevention, climate resilience, and data access; and (3) Develop understanding of the social structures, systems, and community science literacies necessary for early-warning, response, and flood risk preparedness for residents who lack digital access through a participatory action case study with at-risk communities. REFURB will convene work groups from impacted community residents to co-produce knowledge required to support resilience (i.e., the ability to return to a new normal after disasters) to climate-induced flooding. The first goal will include better techniques to assess the condition of residential sewer pipes and optimize infrastructure investment. A convergent approach combined with robust community engagement will ensure the knowledge about innovative technologies will be scalable and generalizable. Second, building on existing partnerships, this project will develop a community-based framework for improving resilience to climate change. Third, this project will advance techniques used to communicate risk and enhance disaster recovery in communities where not all have smartphones. By learning how people in neighborhoods interact with technology needed to make homes “safe to fail”, findings will inform other urban communities experiencing climate-induced flooding.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.