A Clearinghouse on Natural Hazards Research and Applications

美国科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的自然灾害研究与应用信息中心该合同将继续支持位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学的自然灾害研究与应用信息中心，为期两年，从2000年10月到2002年9月。该中心的基本功能是作为美国危害研究和从业者社区之间的桥梁，不会改变。该中心将监测和传播危害研究信息给多个用户：管理人员、从业人员、决策者、工程师和所有学科的科学家。中心每年出版发行6次《自然灾害观察》，订阅者超过1.5万人；经营电子通讯《灾害研究》；并通过万维网和传统的纸质出版物传播信息。此外，该中心将继续与美国土木工程师协会共同赞助《自然灾害评论》杂志，并寻求外部资金，制作和分发《自然灾害信息》系列出版物，旨在综合最新的灾害知识，使从业人员能够轻松应用。中心将继续建立其图书馆数据库，并将根据询问提供日常资料。中心每年将主办一次由危害研究的使用者和生产者参加的年度、国家和国际讲习班。它还将通过资助全国各地的研究人员对特定灾害事件进行快速反应研究来支持灾后社会科学研究。该中心的内部研究项目主要由单独的研究经费资助，将重点开展《设计灾害：美国自然灾害的再评估》（Mileti, 1999）一书中所建议的研究，该研究展示了该中心为期五年的研究项目的结果，该项目对自然灾害的已知和未知情况进行了评估，并研究了灾害与可持续社会的关系。特别是，该中心的研究将解决灾难后可持续恢复究竟需要什么问题。促进和确保参与可持续危害管理的高度多样化的学者和从业者群体之间的联系仍然是中心活动的最大挑战和最重要的结果。该中心由美国国家科学基金会、联邦紧急事务管理局、美国国家航空航天局、美国陆军工程兵团、美国地质调查局、美国环境保护局、美国垦务局和美国交通部共同资助。

CMS 00-80977A Clearinghouse on Natural Hazards Research and ApplicationsMileti, Dennis S.University of Colorado, BoulderThis award supports continuation of support for the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder for the two-year period from October 2000 through September 2002. The Center's basic function, to serve as a bridge between the hazards research and practitioner communities in the United States, will not change. The Center will monitor and disseminate hazards research information to multiple users: administrators, practitioners, policy makers, engineers, and scientists of all disciplines. The Center will publish and distribute the Natural Hazards Observer to over 15,000 subscribers six times a year; operate an electronic newsletter, Disaster Research; and disseminate information via the World Wide Web and traditional hard copy publications. In addition, the Center will continue co-sponsorship of the Natural Hazards Review journal with the American Society of Civil Engineers and seek outside funding to produce and distribute issues of the Natural Hazards Informera publication series designed to synthesize state-of-the-art hazards knowledge so that it can be easily applied by practitioners. The Center will continue to build its library database, and information will be provided on a day-to-day basis in response to inquiries. The Center will sponsor an annual, national and international workshop involving users and producers of hazards research each year. It will also support social science research following disasters by funding researchers throughout the nation to carry out quick response studies of specific hazard events. The Center's in-house research program, which is largely funded with separate research grants, will focus on conducting research recommended in Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States (Mileti, 1999) which presents the results of the Center's five-year research project taking stock of what is known and not known about natural hazards and examining the relationship of hazards to a sustainable society. In particular, the Center's research will address the issue of what, exactly, sustainable recovery from disasters entails.Facilitating and ensuring links among the highly diverse group of academicians and practitioners involved in sustainable hazards management remains the greatest challenge for, and the most significant result of, Center activities.The Center is co-funded by the National Science Foundation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and the U.S. Department of Transportation.