Workshop on Disaster Research: Taking Stock and Taking Action: Disaster Research and the Challenges Ahead; Newark, Delaware; May 1-2, 2014

该项目是一个跨学科讲习班，重点是制定一个灾害研究议程，以便系统地发展知识和解决办法，减少美国的环境和技术灾害风险。来自美国和地球仪的150多名来自工程、社会科学和地球科学的顶尖灾害专家将根据日益增加的社会脆弱性探索现有知识，并建议我们所知道的和我们需要知道的如何帮助社会应对灾害的持续存在。讲习班与会者将重点讨论减少灾害风险科学研究结果与灾害政策的通过和执行之间的关系。社会效益包括灾害和应急官员更多地利用科学知识，这应能提高社区的抗灾能力。它将首次包括危害和灾害研究人员与执行科学研究人员的多学科整合。研讨会将指出一个全新的方式来看待危险，通过收集与会者的评论和数据之前，他们到达，在研讨会的整个过程中，在多个设置，以及之后。这一过程将实现对来自所有领域的大量有影响力的灾害科学家的观点的最全面的评估，而不是迄今为止的尝试。研讨会的目标是引发对危害知识现状的讨论，并渗透有关危害的新思维，使社区远离标准研究主题，并研究如何以有意义的方式为政策提供信息，并在多个活动规模上实施。因此，研讨会应激发新的研究项目，启动科学家之间的新合作，为吸引官员产生新的想法，并激发新学者和经验丰富的退伍军人的想象力。

This project is an interdisciplinary workshop focused on establishing a disaster research agenda for the systematic development of knowledge and solutions aimed at reducing the risk of environmental and technological disasters in the United States. Over 150 of the leading disaster experts from engineering, social science, and geoscience from the United States and from around the globe will probe existing knowledge in light of increasing societal vulnerability and suggest how what we know and what we need to know can help the society confront the persistence of hazard. The workshop participants will focus upon the relationship between scientific research findings on disaster risk reduction and disaster policy adoption and implementation. Societal benefits include enhanced utilization of scientific knowledge by disaster and emergency officials that should increase the resilience of communities to disasters.The two-day workshop is organized around two plenary and four working group sessions. It will for the first time include the multidisciplinary integration of hazard and disaster researchers with researchers from implementation science. The workshop will point to an entirely new way of looking at hazards by collecting commentary and data from participants before they arrive, throughout the workshop in multiple settings, and after as well. This process will achieve the most complete assessment of the views of a large number of influential disaster scientists, from all areas, than has heretofore been attempted. The workshop's goal is to provoke discussion on the present state of hazard knowledge and to percolate fresh thinking about hazard that takes the community away from standard research topics and to looking about how that research can inform policy in ways that make sense and are implementable at multiple scales of activity. The workshop should therefore incite new research projects, initiate fresh collaborations amongst scientists, generate new ideas for engaging officials, and stimulate the imaginations of newer scholars and experienced veterans.