Workshop: STS Forum on Fukishima: Building a Transnational Research Agenda and Strategy for Engagement through a Social Scientific Understanding of Disasters & Disaster Science

灾害科学正在成为一个独特的领域，它融合了一系列科学学科，对灾害治理的许多方面都有影响。该研讨会调查社会，技术和组织因素，有助于或限制灾害，减灾，以及重大灾害后的补救和恢复工作。为了解决这些问题，日本和美国的参与者使用福岛核事故和2011年影响日本东部的密切相关的灾害来开发新的知识，并与切尔诺贝利，1995年的科比地震，911，卡特里娜飓风和关东大地震灾害进行了明确的比较。科学和技术研究的认识文化，科学和学科领域，公共和机构对危机的反应，以及嵌入式研究和政策参与之间的关系的理论被用来解决关键的研讨会问题。 成果包括国家科学基金会讲习班报告，其中列出了灾害社会科学研究的主要新方向，建立了灾害科学研究人员跨国网络，在灾害的社会和技术方面的交叉方面具有更深的专门知识，并在网站上分发会议文件和材料。

Disaster science is emerging as distinctive field that incorporates a range of scientific disciplines, and has implications for many aspects of disaster governance. This workshop investigates the social, technical and organizational factors that contribute to or limit disasters, disaster mitigation, and the remediation and recovery efforts that follow major disasters. To address these issues, Japan- and US-based participants use the Fukushima nuclear accident and the closely related disasters that affected Eastern Japan in 2011 to develop new knowledge, making explicit comparisons to Chernobyl, the 1995 Kobe Earthquake, September 11th, Hurricane Katrina and the Kanto Dai Shinsai disaster. Science and Technology Studies theories of epistemic cultures, scientific and disciplinary fields, public and institutional responses to crises, and the relationship between embedded research and policy engagement are used to address key workshop questions. Outcomes include a NSF Workshop Report that lays out major new directions in social scientific studies of disaster, the creation of a transnational network of disaster science researchers with deeper expertise in the intersection of social and technical aspects of disaster, and web site distribution of conference papers and materials.