A Workshop on a New Cross-Directorate Program on Disaster Resilience, Vulnerability, and Risk Reduction

关于抗灾、脆弱性和减少风险的新跨部门计划研讨会

• 批准号: 1137255
• 负责人: Walter Peacock
• 金额: $ 8.58万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1137255&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; New; Cross; Directorate; Program

Despite significant advancement in our understanding of natural hazards and disasters within specific scientific disciplines, the United States continues to experience increasing losses. There is much evidence to suggest that our communities are becoming more vulnerable and less disaster resilient. The scientific consensus is that disasters result from the interaction between physical, built, and social systems and yet the science is generally funded and conducted within disciplinary areas. To explicitly promote and advance our knowledge of the fundamental physical, social and engineering processes associated with natural and technological hazards, the proposed project will conduct an interdisciplinary workshop of leading natural hazard and disaster researchers to identify the scientific advances from new cross-directorate activities focused on disaster resilience, vulnerability, and risk reduction. The proposed workshop will draw together leading hazard and disaster researchers from engineering, geosciences, and social, behavioral and economic sciences to provide input to the National Science Foundation about the nature, goals, and structures of new activities. The workshop will take steps toward the development of a framework for such a cross-disciplinary program. The framework will identify the core research themes and research questions related to resiliency, vulnerability, and risk reduction. Some key issues to be addressed include: 1) the identification of interdisciplinary research agendas involving engineering, geoscience, and social, behavioral and economic sciences and 2) the potential need for new research and data collection approaches to enhance longitudinal research capable of modeling and monitoring processes associated with changes in resiliency, vulnerability, and risk perceptions. The workshop will be held at the National Science Foundation in early June of 2011.

尽管我们在具体科学学科中对自然危害和灾害的认识有了重大进展，但美国的损失仍在增加。有许多证据表明，我们的社区正变得更加脆弱，抗灾能力越来越差。科学界的共识是，灾害是由物理，建筑和社会系统之间的相互作用造成的，但科学通常是在学科领域内资助和进行的。为了明确促进和提高我们对与自然灾害和技术灾害有关的基本物理、社会和工程过程的认识，拟议项目将举办一个由主要自然灾害和灾害研究人员参加的跨学科讲习班，以确定新的跨部门活动中的科学进展，重点是抗灾能力、脆弱性和减少风险。拟议的研讨会将汇集来自工程，地球科学，社会，行为和经济科学的主要危害和灾害研究人员，为国家科学基金会提供有关新活动的性质，目标和结构的投入。研讨会将采取步骤，为这样一个跨学科的计划制定一个框架。该框架将确定与复原力、脆弱性和减少风险有关的核心研究主题和研究问题。需要解决的一些关键问题包括：1）确定涉及工程、地球科学以及社会、行为和经济科学的跨学科研究议程; 2）可能需要新的研究和数据收集方法，以加强纵向研究，从而能够对与弹性、脆弱性和风险感知变化相关的过程进行建模和监测。研讨会将于2011年6月初在美国国家科学基金会举行。