EAGER: SUstainable Material Management Extreme Events Reconnaissance (SUMMEER) Organization

自然和人为灾害事件产生了大量的碎片。巨大的规模和高度多变的组成使灾后碎片的管理复杂化。透过适当的物料回收程序，废物再用及循环再造可创造价值，并转移堆填区的废物，尽量减少废物对整体环境的影响。该项目的主要目标是建立可持续材料管理极端事件侦察（summerer）组织，该组织具有地理分布式网络，以应对灾后碎片管理挑战。summer的使命是：(i)促进以成员和社区为基础的联合办法，最大限度地发挥灾后碎片侦察活动的效果；（ii）组织和培训广泛的个人，对极端事件产生的碎片进行侦察和研究；（iii）协调灾前和灾后的努力，及时有效地收集关于灾后碎片的易腐烂数据；（iv）为灾后碎片的可持续管理研究提供重要数据和资源。本研究制定的框架和工具将促进灾害碎片的适当规划和可持续管理，通过再利用和再循环最大限度地利用这些材料，并尽量减少对人类健康和环境的不利影响。在文献和实践中已经认识到灾后碎片的回收/再利用的重要性；然而，由于缺乏详细的灾后碎片调查，用于灾前和灾后规划的定量框架和工具非常有限。这个新的极端事件侦察（EER）组织将通过提供以前无法获得的标准化数据来填补这一空白。新的EER组织将首次为可持续碎片管理研究提供侦察指南、响应协议、数据标准和培训计划，以进行高质量的实地评估。这种灾后碎片数据的积累将导致灾害碎片定量规划方法的发展，并使灾后有效的再利用和再循环应用成为可能。SUMMEER将作为一个综合平台，协调跨学科研究人员的部署，从极端事件中收集这种多维碎片数据。此外，在研究期间将生成一个数据存储库，供研究团体使用。为了应对重大灾害事件，SUMMEER将与nsf资助的其他EERs共同参与响应活动，除了通过现有EERs确定的结构、岩土和社会影响外，还将及时有效地评估灾害事件的环境影响，这些影响对可持续碎片管理研究至关重要。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Large quantities of debris are generated from natural and anthropogenic disaster events. The sheer magnitude and highly variable composition complicate management of the post-disaster debris. With proper material recovery processes, reusing and recycling create value and divert debris from landfills, minimizing the overall environmental impacts of the debris. The main goal of this project is to establish the SUstainable Material Management Extreme Events Reconnaissance (SUMMEER) organization with a geographically distributed network to respond to post-disaster debris management challenges. The mission of SUMMEER is to: (i) facilitate a combined member and community-based approach to maximize the effect of post-disaster debris reconnaissance activities, (ii) organize and train a broad range of individuals for reconnaissance and study of debris from extreme events, (iii) coordinate pre- and post-disaster efforts to collect perishable data on post-disaster debris in a timely and effective manner, and (iv) provide significant data and resources for research on sustainable management of post-disaster debris. The framework and tools developed in this study will facilitate proper planning for and sustainable management of disaster debris to maximize benefits from the materials through reuse and recycling and to minimize adverse effects on human health and the environment.The importance of recycling/reuse of post-disaster debris has been recognized in the literature and practice; however, quantitative frameworks and tools for pre- and post-disaster planning are highly limited due to the lack of detailed post-disaster debris investigations. This new Extreme Events Reconnaissance (EER) organization will fill this gap by providing standardized data that has not previously been available. The new EER organization will, for the first time, provide reconnaissance guidelines, response protocols, data standards, and training programs for high-quality field assessment for sustainable debris management research. Accumulation of this post-disaster debris data will lead to development of quantitative planning methods for disaster debris and enable effective post-disaster reuse and recycling applications. SUMMEER will function as an integrated platform for coordinating the deployment of interdisciplinary researchers to collect such multidimensional debris data from extreme events. Also, a data repository will be generated during the study for use by the research community. In response to major disaster events, SUMMEER will participate in joint response activities with the other NSF-funded EERs to evaluate environmental impacts of disaster events that are important for sustainable debris management research in a timely and effective manner in addition to the structural, geotechnical, and social impacts identified through the existing EERs adding value and expanding the impact of the combined EERs.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.