A Framework for Convergence Research in the Hazards and Disaster Field: The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure CONVERGE Facility
A Framework for Convergence Research in the Hazards and Disaster Field: The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure CONVERGE Facility
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DOI：
10.3389/fbuil.2020.00110
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发表时间：
2020-07-07
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3
通讯作者：
Mathews, Mason Clay
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作者：
Peek, Lori;Tobin, Jennifer;Mathews, Mason Clay
本文的目的是双重的：澄清收敛研究的原则，并推动这种研究在灾害和灾害领域。在这里，融合研究被定义为一种知识生产和行动的方法，它涉及不同的团队以新颖的方式合作——超越学科和组织界限——解决令人烦恼的社会、经济、环境和技术挑战，努力减少灾害损失，促进集体福祉。随着灾害发生的频率和强度的增加，加上该领域的发展，迫切需要一种更连贯的方法来帮助指导我们研究什么、研究谁、如何进行研究以及谁参与研究过程本身。本文是通过国家科学基金会支持的CONVERGE设施的活动来编写的，该设施成立于2018年，是自然灾害工程研究基础设施（NHERI）的第一个社会科学主导的组成部分。收敛原则和团队科学是CONVERGE工作的基础，它汇集了来自岩土工程、社会科学、结构工程、近岸系统、运营和系统工程、可持续材料管理以及跨学科科学和工程的研究人员网络。CONVERGE支持和推进概念整合的研究，本文描述了一个融合框架，包括以下要素：(1)识别研究人员；（二）教育和培训研究人员；(3)制定以问题为中心、以解决方案为基础的融合研究议程；(4)连接研究人员，协调不同职能和人口组成的研究团队；(5)支持和资助融合研究、数据收集、数据共享和解决方案实施。
The goal of this article is twofold: to clarify the tenets of convergence research and to motivate such research in the hazards and disaster field. Here, convergence research is defined as an approach to knowledge production and action that involves diverse teams working together in novel ways - transcending disciplinary and organizational boundaries - to address vexing social, economic, environmental, and technical challenges in an effort to reduce disaster losses and promote collective well-being. The increasing frequency and intensity of disasters coupled with the growth of the field suggests an urgent need for a more coherent approach to help guide what we study, who we study, how we conduct studies, and who is involved in the research process itself. This article is written through the lens of the activities of the National Science Foundation-supported CONVERGE facility, which was established in 2018 as the first social science-led component of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI). Convergence principles and the Science of Team Science undergird the work of CONVERGE, which brings together networks of researchers from geotechnical engineering, the social sciences, structural engineering, nearshore systems, operations and systems engineering, sustainable material management, and interdisciplinary science and engineering. CONVERGE supports and advances research that is conceptually integrative, and this article describes a convergence framework that includes the following elements: (1) identifying researchers; (2) educating and training researchers; (3) setting a convergence research agenda that is problem-focused and solutions-based; (4) connecting researchers and coordinating functionally and demographically diverse research teams; and (5) supporting and funding convergence research, data collection, data sharing, and solutions implementation.