Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Hazard Mitigation and Community Resilience (HMCR)

规划补助金：减灾和社区复原力工程研究中心（HMCR）

• 批准号: 1936969
• 负责人: Sri Sritharan
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1936969&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Hazard Mitigation and Community Resilience (HMCR)Many federal and state agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), have significantly invested on hazard mitigation research as well as on improving the societal aspects associated with disasters. However, the aftermath that unfolded following the recent disasters confirm that the impact of past research in terms of improving community resilience following a natural disaster is limited. This is believed to be due to the research on Hazard Mitigation and Community Resilience (HMCR) not being conducted holistically. Solving engineering problems protects infrastructure from experiencing collapse. However, maintaining their functionality immediately following a disaster and minimizing associated disruptions have paramount importance for the affected communities. To overcome this challenge and introduce transformative changes to the traditional practice, an HMCR program is being initiated by using the complex societal problems that have been identified in recent disasters and driving the research agenda based on the identified problems. A key element of the effort to transform the HMCR initiative into a research center is to design and implement a convergence research program and integrated education and training efforts that will create more resilient systems and communities. This NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) Planning project fosters the creation of an agenda to design the center for HMCR. The properly constructed and well-funded ERC on HMCR with a convergent research program can enable communities and organizations to be better prepared for disasters, spend resources wisely to mitigate impacts, and recover quickly from disasters.Hazard mitigation, as an adaptive resilience strategy, is deeply embedded in complex and interconnected structural, social, economic, and policy contexts. Dynamics of these processes influence the effectiveness of hazard mitigation strategies, impacts of disasters, community resilience, and directions of the post-disaster reconstruction. Understanding this reality becomes a transdisciplinary agenda for research and education as well as to create direct impact to the communities. The integration of research and education involving multiple disciplines to solve current issues in disaster prone areas with emphasis on community resilience is crucial as it will enrich the workforce and guide the decision making process in the presence of future disasters and recovery. This project focuses on better understanding the processes and interdependencies of the different systems in the community. In order to propel fundamental research with direct impact to community resilience, a workshop will be organized for faculty from multiple disciplines (e.g., engineering, urban planning, business, computer science, political science, economics, and sociology) together with stakeholders to generate collaborative research that solve important problems in HMCR. A convergence research agenda that integrates engineering with several other disciplines will consist of multiple thrust areas. The topic may focus on: (1) hazard modelling and mapping, (2) design for resilience, (3) system analysis of resilience, and (4) socioeconomic patterns and policy. By gaining broad knowledge in HMCR, the team will provide stakeholders with an improved understanding of their role, and will be able to communicate how the convergence research agenda and its outcomes will improve community resilience in disaster prone areas. It will promote convergence research collaboration to investigate HMCR problems and enhance the participation of underrepresented groups and stakeholders. It can also increase the capacity across the engineering academic community to develop ideas, facilitate team formation, and foster stakeholder community networks. In this context, researchers will strengthen on-going partnerships and will build additional ones with industry leaders and other organizations to increase the innovative capacity and broader societal impacts of the research outcomes. The program will engage underrepresented students by recruiting among the diverse student population and will provide opportunities for faculty with diverse background to work together and grow their academic careers and support the formation of the HMCR Center.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

规划补助金：减灾和社区复原力工程研究中心(HMCR)许多联邦和州机构，包括国家科学基金会(NSF)，在减灾研究以及改善与灾害相关的社会方面投入了大量资金。然而，最近发生的灾难所带来的后果证实，过去的研究在改善自然灾害后社区复原力方面的影响有限。这被认为是由于对减灾和社区复原力(HMCR)的研究没有全面地进行。解决工程问题可以保护基础设施免于崩溃。然而，在灾难发生后立即维持其功能，并将相关中断降至最低，对受影响的社区至关重要。为了克服这一挑战，并对传统做法进行变革性的改变，正在启动一项HMCR计划，利用在最近的灾难中发现的复杂社会问题，并根据确定的问题推动研究议程。将HMCR计划转变为研究中心的努力的一个关键要素是设计和实施融合研究计划以及整合的教育和培训努力，以创建更具弹性的系统和社区。这个NSF工程研究中心(ERC)规划项目促进了为HMCR设计中心的议程的创建。HMCR上的应急反应中心建设得当，资金充足，研究计划趋同，可以使社区和组织更好地为灾害做好准备，明智地使用资源来减轻影响，并迅速从灾害中恢复。减灾作为一种适应性复原力战略，深深植根于复杂而相互关联的结构、社会、经济和政策背景中。这些进程的动态影响到减灾战略的有效性、灾害的影响、社区的复原力和灾后重建的方向。了解这一现实成为研究和教育的跨学科议程，并对社区产生直接影响。将涉及多个学科的研究和教育结合起来，以解决灾害多发地区的当前问题，重点是社区的复原力，这是至关重要的，因为这将丰富劳动力，并在未来发生灾害和恢复时指导决策过程。这个项目的重点是更好地理解社区中不同系统的流程和相互依赖关系。为了推动对社区复原力有直接影响的基础研究，将为来自多个学科(例如，工程、城市规划、商业、计算机科学、政治学、经济学和社会学)的教师与利益相关者组织研讨会，以产生合作研究，以解决HMCR中的重要问题。将工程学与其他几个学科相结合的融合研究议程将由多个推进领域组成。该专题可侧重于：(1)灾害建模和绘图；(2)复原力设计；(3)复原力系统分析；(4)社会经济模式和政策。通过获得HMCR方面的广泛知识，该团队将使利益攸关方更好地了解他们的角色，并将能够交流融合研究议程及其结果将如何提高灾害多发地区的社区复原力。它将促进融合研究合作，以调查HMCR问题，并加强代表不足的群体和利益攸关方的参与。它还可以提高整个工程学术社区的能力，以开发想法，促进团队形成，并培养利益相关者社区网络。在这方面，研究人员将加强正在进行的伙伴关系，并将与行业领导者和其他组织建立更多的伙伴关系，以提高研究成果的创新能力和更广泛的社会影响。该计划将通过在不同的学生群体中招募代表不足的学生来吸引学生，并将为具有不同背景的教师提供合作和发展学术事业的机会，并支持HMCR中心的形成。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。