Waterproofing data: engaging stakeholders in the sustainable governance of flood risks for urban resilience (Fapesp-Belmont Forum T2S2016)

• Grant number: 18/50039-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: December 01, 2018 - June 30, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Convênio/Acordo: Belmont Forum
• Principal Investigator: Maria Alexandra Viegas Cortez da Cunha
• Grantee: Maria Alexandra Viegas Cortez da Cunha
• Host Institution: Escola de Administração de Empresas (EAESP). Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/06595-2 - Making data flows visible and enabling transformations towards waterproofing data, BP.PD; 19/06616-0 - Waterproofing Data: engaging stakeholders in the sustainable governance of flood risks for urban resilience, BP.PD

Abstract

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 "centers 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 change 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. 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 public 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 organizations and local administration of two cities in Germany and the United Kingdom with recent flooding experiences. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DE ALBUQUERQUE, JOAO PORTO; ANDERSON, LIANA; CALVILLO, NEREA; COAFFEE, JON; CUNHA, MARIA ALEXANDRA; DEGROSSI, LIVIA CASTRO; DOLIF, GIOVANNI; HORITA, FLAVIO; KLONNER, CAROLIN; LIMA-SILVA, FERNANDA; et al. he role of data in transformations to sustainability: a critical research agend. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, v. 49, p. 153-163, APR 2021. (18/50039-4, 19/06595-2, 19/06616-0)