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

最近的重大灾害，包括1999年的集集地震和2005年的新奥尔良卡特里娜飓风，造成了巨大的人力和经济损失，由NSF和台湾国家科学理事会联合主办的跨太平洋研讨会将于2010年5月6日至7日举行。 该讲习班力求跨越传统的学科界限，发展更好地管理自然灾害对主要城市地区的影响所需的新知识。 大规模自然灾害对今天的潜在影响？中国的城市群是如此巨大，他们可以被称为巨型城市/巨型灾害（MCMD）。 讲习班将探讨在军事变革和管理部长级会议期间快速应急/恢复/重建的具体战略。 此外，它还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、机构和民众应对的因素。 为了实现这些目标，讲习班将召集在各自领域前沿工作的各种国际专家，探讨和促进各种机会，为大城市地区的减灾工作制定更有效的办法。 特别是，紧急情况应对和恢复、社会经济学、土地使用政策、自然灾害（例如，减灾、防洪、滑坡和地震）和信息技术将参与其中。 讲习班将使来自不同国家的研究人员和从业人员能够支持一个共同的减灾研究框架，利用现有的全球研究基础设施进行多国合作研究。 除了PI，研讨会的组织者包括迈克尔古德柴尔德，加州大学，圣巴巴拉;杰罗姆林奇，密歇根大学;和C.H.洛，国立台湾大学，台湾。该会议由国际科学工程办公室和土木，机械和制造创新工程司理事会共同资助。

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.