Floods impact 2.2 billion people globally, and their occurrence displays an alarming increase
\ncompared to other natural disasters. The State of Iowa follows this ascending trend, with flood-
\npresidential disaster declarations occurring almost every other year for the last 30 years. The
\never-growing flood threats continue to be tackled with piece-meal, sectoral mitigation
\napproaches that are trickled down to communities through top-down, limited-efficiency solutions
\nthat disproportionally affect the socially vulnerable populations in rural and urban communities.
\nWhile considerable scientific and technological progress is increasingly available for many flood
\nmitigation efforts, their on-the-ground impacts are impeded, among other causes, by the limited
\navailability of tools to rapidly turn the expanding data into accessible and actionable knowledge
\nfor flood mitigation. Changing the current situation requires a \u201csystem of systems\u201d (SoS)
\napproach whereby the underlying hydrologic processes leading to floods are closely linked with
\nthe watershed-level socio-economic functions through efficient collaboration tools to ensure
\ncommunity involvement in the co-production of the mitigation plans with attention to socio-
\nenvironmental justice principles. Currently, there is no unified vision on the architecture,
\ncomponents, and technologies for a generic flood mitigation and resilience support system.
\nThe aim of the proposed research is to develop a prototype web-based mitigation platform,
\nFlood Resilience Support System (FloodRSS), for participatory community action where the
\nmulti-disciplinary legacy datasets and incoming data streams are organized, stored, and analyzed
\nas a \u201cbig-data\u201d case driven by emerging concepts in flood vulnerability and resilience. Our
\nproposal responds to the priority on \u201cwater related hazard and society\u201d by linking flood
\nunderlying hydrologic processes with socio-economic aspects within a generic and modular
\ncyberinfrastructure that can be iteratively enhanced with new developments as they occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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