U.S.-Russian Workshop on Sustainable Development in Russia Using Environment and Health Databanks

9522969考夫曼这笔赠款支持为期两天的“俄罗斯可持续发展规划：使用环境和健康数据库”的美俄联合研讨会，该研讨会将于1995年4月最后一周在华盛顿特区举行，由伊拉·考夫曼博士、格雷格·格罗夫博士和默里·费什巴赫博士组织，由弗吉尼亚州亚历山大市的遗产国际、后苏联研究中心和俄罗斯环境政策中心主持。要评估俄罗斯对全球经济变化的影响，研究人员和政策制定者需要更多地利用俄罗斯联邦的大量科学资源和信息。同样，政府机构、国际组织、公司和俄罗斯公民需要适当的数据来应对当前的环境和健康危机，以及未来发展的影响。最近完成的第一份《俄罗斯环境与健康地图集》是展示丰富的俄罗斯数据的第一步。为了将地图集和其他信息与全球变化倡议结合起来，俄罗斯环境和健康数据集的储存库需要标准化、数字化、更新，并转换成供决策者使用的格式。目标是概述建立俄罗斯环境与健康电子数据库的战略。研讨会将通过以下方式实现这一目标：(1)审查俄罗斯现有的数据倡议并评估俄罗斯未来对环境和健康的数据需求；(2)提出应用信息技术满足俄罗斯数据需求的几种选择；(3)推荐拟议数据库所需的基础设施和标准；以及(4)利用现有数据产生解决全球变化问题的新提案想法。来自美国和俄罗斯的政府、私营部门、非政府组织和大学的代表团将参加。该小组将讨论建立俄罗斯数据库的可能性和遇到的困难，以及该数据库与相关国际方案的整合问题。与会者将建议后续数据库提案，提交后，研讨会组织者将进行协调。这一地理和区域科学项目通过使俄罗斯和美国的顶尖专家能够将互补的人才结合在一起，并在相互感兴趣和能力很强的领域汇集资源，从而实现了促进科学知识的计划目标。***

9522969 Kaufman This grant supports a two-day Joint US-Russia Workshop on "Planning for Sustainable Development in Russia: Using Environment and Health Databanks," to be held in the Washington, DC, area in the last week of April, 1995, which is to be organized by Drs. Ira Kaufman, Greg Guroff, and Murray Feshbach, under the aegis of Legacy International of Alexandria, VA, the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, and the Center for Russian Environment Policy. To assess Russia's influence on global economic change requires researchers and policymakers to have greater access to the Russian Federation's vast scientific resources and information. Likewise, government agencies, international organizations, corporations, and Russian citizens require the appropriate data to address the current environment and health crisis, as well as the impact of future development. The recent completion of the first "Environment and Health Atlas of Russia" is a first step to presenting the wealth of Russian data. To integrate the atlas and other information with global change initiatives, a repository for Russian environment and health data sets needs to be standardized, digitalized, updated, and translated to a format for policy makers. The goal is to outline a strategy for establishing a Russian electronic databank for environment and health. The workshop will fulfill this goal by (1) examining existing Russian data initiatives and assess future data needs for environment and health in Russia; (2) presenting several options for applying information technology to meet Russian data needs; (3) recommending the infrastructure and standards necessary for the proposed databank; and (4) generating new proposal ideas to address global change issues using current data. Delegations from government, private sector, non- government organizations, and universities from the U.S. and Russia will participate. The group will address the possibilities and difficulties to be encountered in creati ng a Russian databank, as well as integration of the databank with relevant international programs. Participants will recommend follow-up databank proposals, the submission of which, workshop organizers will coordinate. This project in geography and regional science fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading experts in Russia and the United States to combine complementary talents and pool resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence. ***