Confronting Hazards, Impacts and Risks for a Resilient Planet | PD 24 297Y

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) Confronting Hazards, Impacts and Risks for a Resilient Planet Program (CHIRRP) is a research grant opportunity aimed at improving how we understand, anticipate, and reduce risks from Earth system hazards in ways that directly help communities. The program is built around the idea that hazards are becoming more dangerous and more complicated because of climate change, population growth, higher demand for land and resources, aging infrastructure, and growing dependence on technology. CHIRRP is looking for projects that do more than study hazards in the abstract. It emphasizes research that is innovative and potentially transformative, and that is carried out in real partnership with the people and organizations living with the impacts.

At the center of CHIRRP is community-driven, use-inspired research. Projects are expected to bring researchers, academics, and community leaders together to jointly define the research questions and shape the work from start to finish. That means community partners are not treated as an add-on or outreach audience, but as co-developers of the project and its outcomes. The intent is to generate actionable, science-based solution pathways that can be used for adaptation strategies, tools, products, services, or decision-support approaches that improve resilience in the near term and over the long term.

The program allows a wide range of hazard topics and scales. A project might focus on a single hazard (such as flooding, wildfire, extreme heat, landslides, drought, coastal erosion, or other Earth system threats) or examine cascading and interacting hazards where one event triggers or worsens another. CHIRRP also supports work at different geographic scales, from local community settings to regional and even global analyses, as long as the work is grounded in a rigorous Earth system science perspective and clearly tied to hazard impacts and risk reduction.

CHIRRP proposals are expected to integrate three essential elements. First, teams must build equitable community partnerships, meaning the project serves a specific community and co-produces both the research agenda and the solution ideas in ways that respect local priorities, lived experience, and decision contexts. Partners can include local governments, Tribal Nations, civil society organizations, youth groups, and NGOs, among others. Strong proposals typically show how the partnership will function in practice, how community input will shape key decisions, and how benefits and influence are shared, often drawing on social science methods to support effective engagement.

Second, projects must advance Earth system science by using a systems approach that considers the tight coupling between natural processes and human systems. CHIRRP is explicitly interested in work that examines dynamic interactions across the Earth system, including how social, economic, and infrastructure conditions interact with physical hazards to create vulnerability or resilience. This could include improvements in understanding, forecasting, and/or prediction of future hazards and risks, especially under changing conditions.

Third, CHIRRP requires actionable solutions, not just findings. Deliverables should include co-produced, science-based pathways for reducing risk and strengthening resilience. The program recognizes that there may be multiple possible solutions and that new options can emerge as the research progresses, but projects should still be oriented toward evaluating strategies and informing real decisions. A key part of this is understanding risk, vulnerability, and resilience in a way that accounts for social dynamics and equity, including how hazard impacts can fall disproportionately on specific groups within a community or region. Solutions should align with community priorities and explicitly address objectives like reducing hazard-related risk, increasing resilience, and advancing equity.

In terms of what CHIRRP is currently funding, the program is supporting proposal types that help teams build the groundwork for larger efforts. These include planning grants, conferences, Research Coordination Networks (RCNs), and NSF mechanisms such as EAGER and RAISE, which are often used to catalyze high-risk ideas, launch new collaborations, train teams for effective community engagement, and support early-stage conceptualization and partnership development. In other words, CHIRRP is not only about executing mature projects, but also about enabling the early collaboration and planning needed to develop future large-scale, community-centered hazard and resilience research.

Administrative details from the opportunity listing include: the funding agency is the National Science Foundation; the opportunity title is Confronting Hazards, Impacts and Risks for a Resilient Planet; the funding opportunity number is PD 24 297Y; it is a discretionary grant program within the science and technology/research and development category; the CFDA/Assistance Listing number is 47.050; eligibility is listed as unrestricted; and the original closing date shown is 2024-06-17. The listing does not specify an award ceiling or expected number of awards in the provided data.

• The National Science Foundation in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Confronting Hazards, Impacts and Risks for a Resilient Planet" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 47.050.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-03-08.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-06-17. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.

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