13th National Conference on Disasters and Environment: Science, Preparedness, and Resilience; Washington, DC

授予国家科学与环境委员会(NCSE)的这一奖项将支持第十三届全国科学、政策与环境会议。2013年的主题是灾害与环境：科学、防备和复原力。会议将于2013年1月15日至27日在华盛顿特区的罗纳德·里根大厦和国际贸易中心举行。预计将有来自高等教育机构、政府、民间社会组织、研究和政策组织、企业、国际组织和政府的1100多人参加。美国国家海洋和大气管理局报告称，2011年，14起灾害在美国造成了超过10亿美元的损失。这一数字超过了20世纪80年代整个十年造成的破坏。这次会议将审议环境灾害的范围，包括但不限于飓风、洪水、龙卷风、热浪和干旱、地震、冬季风暴、野火、石油和化学品泄漏。会议将分享与灾害的起因和影响有关的许多物理、生物、社会和工程主题的研究问题和成果。会议将强调如何实现更具弹性的社区，拯救生命和生计。灾害与环境会议将把科学和各种层面的决策联系起来，重点关注六个相互关联的主题：级联灾害；建筑环境和自然环境的交汇；灾害作为生态系统变化的机制；重新思考恢复和扩大缓解的视野；人类行为及其后果；以及“无怨无悔”的复原力案例研究。会议将有八个主旨演讲、八个全体圆桌会议、24个专题讨论会和23个互动分组研讨会。个别讲习班将使与会者与专家一起就主题领域提出以科学为基础的建议。200多位杰出的思想领袖、科学家、联邦机构官员、政策专家和国际当局将在为期两天的活动中发表讲话。灾害与环境会议将有五个主要影响：1.分享当前的知识状况；2.在公共和私人领域的科学家和决策者之间建立新的和更牢固的关系；3.为23个研讨会中的每个研讨会制定有针对性和可操作的科学建议；4.促进机构和组织之间的伙伴关系，以推进与环境和灾害问题有关的研究和政策；以及5.出版一份关于会议要点和建议的报告，将在全国和国际上散发，并可在会议网站上查阅，网址为：www.DisastersandEnvironmental ment.org。

This award to The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) will support the 13th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment. The 2013 theme is Disasters and Environment: Science, Preparedness, and Resilience. The conference will be held January 15-27, 2013 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC. Over 1,100 participants from higher education institutions, government, civil society organizations, research and policy organizations, business, international organizations and governments are expected to attend. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that in 2011 14 disasters caused greater than one billion dollars of damage in the United States. This figure exceeds the damage incurred during the entire decade of the 1980s.This conference will consider the range of environmental disasters including but not limited to hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, heat waves and droughts, earthquakes, winter storms, wildfires, oil and chemical spills. The conference will share research questions and findings on many physical, biological, social and engineering topics related to the causes and impacts of disasters. The conference will emphasize how to achieve more resilient communities, saving lives and livelihoods. The Disasters and Environment conference will connect science and decision-making on range of levels with a focus on six interconnected themes: cascading disasters; the intersection of the built and natural environments; disasters as mechanisms of ecosystem change; rethinking recovery and expanding the vision of mitigation; human behavior and its consequences; and, "no regrets" resilience case studies.The conference will feature eight keynote presentations, eight plenary roundtables, 24 symposia and 23 interactive breakout workshops. The individual workshops will engage conference participants with experts in generating science-based recommendations on theme areas. Over 200 distinguished thought leaders, scientists, federal agency officials, policy experts and international authorities will speak over the course of the 2.5 day event. NCSE is requesting funding to support travel and related expenses for approximately 33 conference speakers.The Disasters and Environment conference will have five main impacts:1. sharing the current state of knowledge;2. establishing new and stronger relationships between scientists and decision-makers in the public and private domain;3. developing targeting and actionable science-based recommendations on each of the 23 workshops;4. catalyzing partnerships among institutions and organizations to advance research and policy related to environment and disaster issues; and5. publishing a report of conference highlights and recommendations, that will be disseminated nationally and internationally and available on the conference website at www.DisastersandEnvironment.org.