A Clearinghouse on Natural Hazards Research and Applications

自然灾害研究与应用信息交换所

• 批准号: 0218780
• 负责人: Kathleen Tierney
• 金额: $ 134.5万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-10-01 至 2005-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0218780&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Clearinghouse; Natural; Hazards; Research; Applications

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).

自1976年以来，位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学的自然灾害研究和应用信息中心一直是有关自然灾害、相关技术事件和减少灾害损失的计划的研究数据的国家和国际交换中心。 该提案要求在2002年10月至2004年9月的两年期间内继续支持该中心。 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世纪世纪危害社区面临的新挑战。 该中心将继续监测并向多个用户传播危害研究信息。 此外，它还将每年六次向15 000多名订户出版和分发《自然灾害观察员》，经营电子版《灾害研究通讯》，并通过万维网和传统的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。 它将继续建立其图书馆数据库，并升级其用于将数据库放在网上的系统。 2003年和2004年7月，该中心将主办一次由危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，该中心还将向社会科学家提供旅费赠款，以便在灾后立即对具体灾害事件进行“快速反应”研究，同时促进对话，探讨美国是否有必要在重大城市灾害后建立一种更系统的“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，它将制定一项计划，为危害和风险领域的新学者提供竞争性论文赠款。 第二，将继续研究《人为灾害：美国自然灾害的重新评估》（Mileti等，1999年）中确定的问题。