Waterproofing Data: engaging stakeholders in the sustainable governance of flood risks for urban resilience

防水数据调查水相关风险的治理，重点关注数据实践的社会和文化方面。通常情况下，数据从地方一级流向科学的“专业知识中心”，然后与洪水有关的警报和干预措施通过地方政府流向社区。重新思考与洪水有关的数据是如何产生和流动的，可以帮助建立可持续的、抗洪的社区。为此，该项目围绕不同地点和规模的数据实践开发了三种创新方法：1)我们将通过跟踪数据使现有的洪水相关数据流可见；2)通过创建感知、收集和交流洪水数据的多模态接口，吸引公民参与，在地方层面产生新的数据类型；3)利用地理计算技术整合公民生成的数据与其他数据。这些方法干预将改变与洪水有关的数据的产生和流动方式，在公民、政府和洪水专家之间建立新的治理安排，并最终提高巴西圣保罗和阿克里脆弱社区对洪水的抵御能力。该项目将由来自巴西、德国和英国的具有多学科背景的高技能国际研究人员团队开展，他们将与巴西洪水风险管理多地点案例研究的研究人员、利益相关者和公众密切合作。此外，本案例研究的方法和结果将成为与德国和英国参与洪水风险管理的政府组织和地方行政部门进行跨文化对话的基础。

Waterproofing Data investigates the governance of water-related risks, with a focus on social and cultural aspects of data practices. Typically, data flows up from local levels to scientific "centres of expertise", and then flood-related alerts and interventions flow back down through local governments and into communities. Rethinking how flood-related data is produced, and how it flows, can help build sustainable, flood resilient communities. To this end, this project develops three innovative methods around data practices, across different sites and scales: 1) we will make visible existing flows of flood-related data through tracing data; 2) generate new types of data at the local level by engaging citizens through the creation of multi-modal interfaces, which sense, collect and communicate flood data, and; 3) integrate citizen-generated data with other data using geo-computational techniques. These methodological interventions will transform how flood-related data is produced and flows, creating new governance arrangements between citizens, governments and flood experts and, ultimately, increased community resilience related to floods in vulnerable communities of Sao Paulo and Acre, Brazil.The project will be conducted by a highly skilled international team of researchers with multiple disciplinary backgrounds from Brazil, Germany and the UK, in close partnership with researchers, stakeholders and publics of a multi-site case study on flood risk management in Brazil. Furthermore, the methods and results of this case study will be the basis for a transcultural dialogue with government organisations and local administration involved in flood risk management in Germany and the United Kingdom.