A Clearinghouse on Natural Hazards Research and Applications

自1976年以来，科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的自然灾害研究和应用信息中心一直是关于自然灾害、相关技术事件和减少自然灾害损失的研究数据的国内和国际信息交换中心。该提案要求延长对该中心2002年10月至2004年9月两年期间的支助。虽然该中心的基本活动不会发生重大变化，但它们将进行调整，以反映21世纪灾害社区面临的新挑战。该中心将继续监测和向多个用户传播危害研究信息。此外，它还将每年六次出版并向15,000多名订阅者分发《自然灾害观察家》，经营《灾害研究》电子通讯，并通过万维网和传统硬拷贝出版物传播信息。该中心将继续与美国土木工程师协会共同主办《自然灾害评论》杂志，并出版《自然灾害信息》系列出版物。它将继续建立图书馆数据库，并升级用于将数据库放到网上的系统。2003年7月和2004年7月，该中心将主办一次有灾害研究人员和从业人员参加的年度国家和国际讲习班。此外，该中心还将为社会科学家提供旅费，让他们在灾后不久对具体的灾害事件进行“快速反应”研究，同时促进对话，探讨美国是否需要在重大城市灾难后建立更系统的“快速反应”研究方法。该中心的内部研究计划将集中在两个方向。首先，它将开发一个项目，为危险与风险的新学者提供竞争性学位论文资助。其次，研究将继续研究《设计的灾难：美国自然灾害的重新评估》(Mileti等人，1999)中确定的问题。

ABSTRACTThe Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder has served as a national and international clearinghouse for research data on natural disasters, related technological events, and programs to reduce damages from them since 1976. This proposal requests renewal of support for the Center for the two-year period from October 2002 through September 2004. While the Center's basic activities will not changer significantly, they will be adjusted to reflect the new challenges facing the hazard community in the 21st century. The Center will continue to monitor and disseminate hazards research information to multiple users. Furthermore, it will publish and distribute the Natural Hazards Observer to over 15,000 subscribers six times a year, operate the electronic Disaster Research newsletter, and disseminate information via the World Wide Web and traditional hard copy publications. The Center will continue to co-sponsor the Natural Hazards Review journal with the American society of civil Engineers and produce the Natural Hazards Information publication series. It will continue to build its library database as well as upgrade the system it uses to put the database on the Web. In July of 2003 and 2004, the Center will sponsor an annual national and international workshop involving hazards researchers and practitioners. Also, the Center will provide travel grants to social scientists to conduct "quick response" studies of specific hazard events in the immediate post-disaster period, while simultaneously facilitate a conversation to explore the need for the United States to establish a more systematic approach to "quick response" research following major urban disasters. The Center's in-house research program will focus in two directions. First, it will develop a program to sponsor competitive dissertation grants for new scholars of hazards and risk. Second, research will continue to questions identified in Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States (Mileti and others, 1999).