Cross-Disciplinary Workshop: Process-Driven Risk Assessment and Mitigation in the Context of Sustainable Development; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; Summer 2005

跨学科研讨会：可持续发展背景下流程驱动的风险评估和缓解；

• 批准号: 0529898
• 负责人: Matthew Mauldon
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-04-01 至 2008-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0529898&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cross; Disciplinary; Workshop; Process; Driven

Award: CMS-0529898PI: Matthew MauldonInstitution: Virginia TechTitle: "Cross Disciplinary Workshop: Process Driven Risk Assessment and Mitigation in the Context of Sustainable Development"Abstract:This award supports a national workshop to explore and set forth emerging opportunities for research collaboration between engineering and geoscience under the theme of Process-Driven Risk Assessment and Mitigation in the Context of Sustainable Development. Workshop participants will represent a broad cross-section of specialties, backgrounds and career stages. The product of the three-day workshop, to be hosted by Vanderbilt University during the summer of 2005, will be a report to NSF and the research community on the scientific and societal needs for such collaboration, and a list of priority cross-disciplinary research areas. Intellectual Merit The workshop theme will center on assessments of process-driven system risk and reliability, and on risk reduction and mitigation strategies in the context of system behavior. The systems to be examined involve both natural and designed components and may necessitate modeling of system behavior over time scales wherein engineering design lives approach the "deep" time of geological and geophysical processes. By "process driven" we mean to aim beyond current approaches to assessment of system behavior that are based largely on extant physical and environmental conditions, and instead focus on next-generation methods and tools that assess active processes rather than current state, and incorporate dynamical modeling of relevant time-dependent processes to anticipate future behavior. In addition, we envision "risk and reliability" as being applied to the health and functioning of environmental and ecological systems, as well as being applied in a conventional engineering sense to human and social risks and designed-system reliability. We believe that certain topical areas are poised to gain immediately from exchanges between the engineering and geoscience communities, either because advances are likely to emerge directly from the joint expertise of these communities, or because these areas involve presently at-risk systems (e.g. coastal lands and wetlands).Broader Impacts A pressing need exists to develop and strengthen cooperative cross-disciplinary efforts in the engineering and geoscience communities - efforts that are focused on: (i) collaborative research in key areas where advances and innovations will require the knowledge and perspectives of both disciplines; (ii) developing and improving educational alliances between these communities; and (iii) applying engineering and geoscience expertise jointly to problems of increasing societal importance and complexity, both in the U.S. and worldwide. The reasons for this need are compelling. Projected population growth within the U.S. and worldwide over the next several decades will lead to demands for Earth resources, including habitable space, at unprecedented scales, and with this an equally unprecedented need for strategies and technologies aimed at achieving the sustainable use of these resources - balancing utilization of resources and habitat with their protection and preservation for the long-term well-being of ecological systems and humans alike. These concerns fundamentally involve the intersection of engineering and the geosciences, and point clearly to the need to mesh existing knowledge and expertise of these disciplines in addressing questions of risk, mitigation strategies and sustainability of future development, as well as the need to develop novel ways of thinking about complex systems, natural and engineered, and their coupled behavior over times scales ranging from minutes to decades and centuries.

奖项：CMS-0529898PI：Matthew Mauldon Institution：弗吉尼亚理工学院：“交叉学科研讨会：可持续发展背景下的过程驱动的风险评估和缓解”摘要：该奖项支持一个全国性的研讨会，以可持续发展的过程驱动的风险评估和缓解为主题，探索和阐述工程学和地球科学之间研究合作的新机会。研讨会参与者将代表不同专业、背景和职业阶段的广泛领域。范德比尔特大学将于2005年夏季主办为期三天的讲习班，讲习班的成果将是向国家科学基金会和研究界提交的关于这种合作的科学和社会需求的报告，以及优先跨学科研究领域的清单。知识价值研讨会的主题将集中在对流程驱动的系统风险和可靠性的评估，以及在系统行为背景下的风险减少和缓解战略。要检查的系统既涉及自然组件，也涉及设计组件，可能需要在工程设计生命接近地质和地球物理过程的“深层”时间尺度上对系统行为进行建模。我们所说的“过程驱动”是指超越目前主要基于现有物理和环境条件的系统行为评估方法，而是专注于评估活动过程而不是当前状态的下一代方法和工具，并结合相关依赖时间的过程的动态建模来预测未来的行为。此外，我们设想将“风险和可靠性”应用于环境和生态系统的健康和功能，以及在传统工程意义上应用于人类和社会风险以及设计系统的可靠性。我们认为，某些专题领域将立即从工程学和地球科学界之间的交流中获益，这要么是因为进展可能直接来自这些界的共同专业知识，要么是因为这些领域涉及目前处于危险之中的系统(例如沿海地区和湿地)。迫切需要发展和加强工程学和地球科学界的跨学科合作努力--努力的重点是：(I)在需要进步和创新需要两个学科的知识和观点的关键领域进行合作研究；(Ii)发展和改善这些社区之间的教育联盟；以及(Iii)在美国和世界范围内，联合应用工程和地球科学专业知识来解决日益重要和复杂的社会问题。这种需要的理由是令人信服的。预计未来几十年美国和世界范围内的人口增长将导致对包括宜居空间在内的地球资源的需求达到前所未有的规模，随之而来的是对旨在实现这些资源的可持续利用的战略和技术的同样前所未有的需求--为了生态系统和人类的长期福祉，平衡资源和栖息地的利用与保护和保存。这些关切从根本上涉及工程学和地球科学的交叉，并清楚地表明，在解决风险、缓解战略和未来发展的可持续性问题时，需要结合这些学科的现有知识和专业知识，以及需要对复杂系统(自然和工程)及其在从几分钟到几十年和几个世纪的时间尺度上的耦合行为开发新的思维方式。