Disaster Science and Technology Studies (DSTS): Advancing an Emerging Subfield

该奖项将支持为期两天的灾害科学和技术研究（DSTS），STS的新兴子领域的跨学科研讨会。讲习班将于2013年夏末或秋季举行。在美国和世界范围内，灾害的频率和严重程度正在增加;许多灾害是由技术系统和过程引起或制约的。灾害还引发了工程和科学活动的洪流，包括基础和应用研究、政策创新、技术开发等;对政府、行业、法律的系统、社区和其他机构如何应对灾害、风险管理、应急响应和长期恢复具有重要影响的活动。然而，迄今为止，在社会科学家为理解科学和技术的社会动态而发展的概念、理论和方法与丰富但基本上尚未开发的关于灾害动态的经验数据之间，仍然存在着紧迫的差距。本工作坊旨在弥补这方面的不足。学术价值本工作坊将有助推动数码科技服务的发展。它将以各种方式这样做。首先，它汇集了北美DSTS学者批判性地评估新兴领域的状态。研讨会计划的一部分是组织一个积极的DSTS研究网络，能够快速国内和国际扩张，并制定一个研究议程，强调反思，比较和合作研究。讲习班还将制定资助和外联战略，以支持DSTS研究，并向更大的灾害研究界和决策者传播知识。潜在的更广泛影响讲习班组织者将编写并通过讲习班报告、新闻稿和其他外联活动向研究人员、记者和决策者分发DSTS研究成果。他们还将建立一个网站，以促进讲习班参与者之间的交流和想法分享，并支持讲习班之后继续开发数据交换和支持服务系统。

IntroductionThis award will support a two-day interdisciplinary workshop on Disaster Science and Technology Studies (DSTS), an emerging subfield of STS. The workshop will take place in late summer or fall 2013. The frequency and severity of disasters are increasing in the United States and worldwide; many are caused or conditioned by technological systems and processes. Disasters also unleash a torrent of engineering and scientific activity, including basic and applied research, policy innovations, technology development, etc.; activities that have important implications for how governments, industries, legal systems, communities, and other institutions deal with disaster, risk management, emergency response, and longer-term recovery. To date, however, there remains a pressing gap between the concepts, theories and methods that social scientists have developed to understand the social dynamics of science and technology and the rich but largely untapped body of empirical data on the dynamics of disasters. The workshop seeks to remedy this gap.Intellectual MeritThis workshop will serve to promote the development of DSTS. It will do so in a variety of ways. First, it brings together North American DSTS scholars to critically assess the state of the emerging field. Part of the workshop plan is to organize an active DSTS research network capable of rapid domestic and international expansion, and to develop a research agenda that emphasizes reflexive, comparative, and collaborative studies. The workshop will also generate strategies for funding and outreach that supports DSTS research and communicates knowledge to the larger disaster research community and to policymakers.Potential Broader ImpactsThe workshop organizers will prepare and circulate the results of DSTS research through a workshop report, and through press releases and other outreach to researchers, journalists, and policy makers. They will also create a website to facilitate communication and idea sharing among workshop participants and to support continued development of DSTS beyond the workshop.