Building and Infrastructure Resilience: Strategic Planning for Speedy and Organized Emergency Response, Recovery, and Rebuilding

在1999年的集集地震和2005年的新奥尔良卡特里娜飓风等近期重大灾害造成的巨大人员和经济损失的催化下，由美国国家科学基金会和台湾国家科学委员会联合主办的跨太平洋研讨会将于2010年5月6-7日举行。讲习班寻求跨越传统的学科界限，发展更好地管理主要城市地区自然灾害的影响所需的新知识。大规模自然灾害对今天的潜在影响是什么？S城市群是如此巨大，可以称之为特大城市/特大灾害(MCMD)。讲习班将探讨在千年发展目标期间迅速作出紧急反应/恢复/重建的具体战略。此外，它将仔细研究围绕这些问题的更广泛的问题，包括可能导致灾害风险长期变化的因素，以及可能影响和阻碍政府、机构和民众做出反应的因素。为实现这些目标，讲习班将召集不同的国际专家小组，在各自领域的前沿工作，探索和促进在大城市地区制定更有效的减灾办法的机会。特别是，将有应急和恢复、社会经济、土地利用政策、减轻自然灾害(如风、洪水、滑坡和地震)和信息技术方面的专家参加。讲习班将允许来自不同国家的研究人员和从业人员支持一个共同的减灾研究框架，该框架利用现有的全球研究基础设施进行多国合作研究。除了国际和平协会，研讨会的组织者还包括加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的迈克尔·古德柴尔德、密歇根大学的杰罗姆·林奇和台湾国立台湾大学的陆振华。这次会议由国际科学与工程办公室和工程局土木、机械和制造创新司联合资助。

Catalyzed by the tremendous human and economic costs of recent major disasters including the Chi Chi Earthquake of 1999 and New Orleans Hurricane Katrina of 2005, a trans-Pacific workshop that is jointly sponsored by NSF and the National Science Council of Taiwan will be held May 6-7, 2010. The workshop seeks to cross traditional disciplinary boundaries to develop the new knowledge needed to better manage the impact of natural hazards in major urban areas. The potential impact of large-scale natural hazards on today?s urban agglomerations is so huge, they can be called Mega-City/Mega-Disasters (MCMD). The workshop will explore specific strategies for rapid emergency response/recovery/rebuild during MCMD. In addition, it will closely examine the broader questions that surround these issues, including factors that may cause long-term changes in the risk of disaster and factors that may affect and impede response by governments, agencies, and populations. To accomplish these objectives, the workshop will assemble a diverse group of international specialists working at the forefront of their respective fields to explore and promote opportunities to develop more effective approaches for disaster mitigation in large urban areas. In particular, specialists in emergency response and recovery, social economics, land use policy, natural hazard (e.g., wind, flood, landslide and earthquake) mitigation, and information technology will participate. The workshop will allow researchers and practitioners from different countries to espouse a common research framework in disaster mitigation that leverages existing global research infrastructure for multinational cooperative research. In addition to the PI, workshop organizers include Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara; Jerome Lynch, Iniversity of Michigan; and C.H. Loh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. The meeting is jointly funded by the Office of International Science & Engineering and the Directorate for Engineering Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation.