Symposium on Resilience and Sustainability

1247729 (Crittenden)。该奖项为美国科学家和工程师参加由俄亥俄州立大学、波特兰州立大学、佐治亚理工学院和奥伯林学院与美国环境保护署合作举办的“恢复力和可持续性研讨会”提供部分资金支持。本次研讨会将于2013年1月14日星期一举行，与2013年1月15日至17日举行的国家科学与环境委员会（NCSE）年度会议相结合，该会议的总体主题是？环境灾害、科学准备和复原力。研讨会成果的重点将在NCSE会议的全体会议上提出。本次研讨会的目的是召集来自不同领域的研究人员和实践者，他们正在研究经济、社会和生态系统中弹性的建模、评估和改进。通过激发跨学科的思考和合作，研讨会旨在(a)对弹性和可持续系统的共同原则有更全面的了解，以及(b)确定增强人类和自然系统的弹性、可持续性和生产性和谐的有用方法或工具。本次研讨会将有助于理解生态洞察力和系统思维可以帮助人类企业和社区发展更大的弹性，以便预测意外，从中断中恢复，并在应对外部压力时进化。将作出特别努力，从科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体（例如少数民族和妇女）中征聘发言者。会议将讨论环境正义和公平的救灾政策问题。

1247729 (Crittenden). This award provides partial financial support for the participation of U.S. scientists and engineers in the Symposium on Resilience and Sustainability that is being organized by faculty at Ohio State University, Portland State University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Oberlin College in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The symposium will be held on Monday, January 14, 2013 in conjunction with the National Council for Science and Environment (NCSE) annual conference on January 15-17, 2013, which has an overall theme of ?Environmental Disasters, Science Preparedness and Resilience.? Highlights of the symposium results will be presented in a plenary session at the NCSE conference. The purpose of this symposium is to convene researchers and practitioners from a variety of fields that are investigating the modeling, assessment, and improvement of resilience in economic, social, and ecological systems. By stimulating trans-disciplinary thinking and collaboration, the symposium aims to (a) develop a more integrated understanding of common principles of resilient and sustainable systems, and (b) identify useful approaches or tools for enhancing the resilience, sustainability, and productive harmony of human and natural systems. This symposium will contribute to the understanding that ecological insights and systems thinking can help human enterprises and communities to develop greater resilience in order to anticipate surprises, recover from disruptions, and evolve in response to external pressures. Special efforts will be made to recruit speakers from groups that are underrepresented in science and engineering (e.g., minorities and women). The topics of environmental justice and equitable policies for disaster response will be addressed.