NSF Convergence Accelerator Workshop: Integrated research on societal infrastructure resilience to stressing events through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary convergence

该项目将组织和主办一个虚拟研讨会，重点是开发复原力和适应工具，帮助社会更有效地应对极端压力事件。这些压力事件被称为“冲击”，包括飓风、地震、洪水、流行病和野火等自然灾害事件。研讨会的前提是，通过制定更有效地量化和可视化灾害风险、脆弱性、应对措施和恢复路径的“社会冲击复原力框架”，将改善决策和复原力。研讨会的目标是为NSF趋同加速器开发一个潜在的未来主题（轨道）。研讨会将确定该主题的潜在范围、支持该主题可能产生的潜在可交付成果、可以在趋同研究方法下聚集在一起的学科专业知识，以及如果支持该主题，可以在学术界、工业界、非营利组织和政府之间建立的伙伴关系。社会经常面临飓风、洪水、野火和地震等“冲击”事件，而美国现在正面临着其中许多冲击可能变得更加频繁的可能性。现有的复原力和适应工具不足或未得到实施。一个关键的挑战是许多致力于提高冲击复原力的群体之间存在的社会文化经济障碍。未来的“收敛加速器”研究轨道只能通过利用多学科的集体专业知识来实现，包括危害评估、生态与环境科学、工程学科、数学与统计学、计算机科学与软件工程、社会学、心理学、经济学和金融压力建模、公共卫生、公共政策、公共管理、城市规划、灾害管理和应急反应。这些学科的专业知识涉及广泛的部门，包括学术机构；地方、州和联邦政府实体；私营部门的营利性和非营利性组织。本次研讨会旨在汇集学科和部门所需的专业知识，以确定国家科学基金会趋同加速器轨道的研究范围。研讨会确定的范围将确定能够在不到三年的时间内产生切实成果的努力，这些成果将提高社区对一系列潜在冲击的抵御能力。重要的是，该研讨会还寻求为任何利益相关者定义一个框架，以提高其社区的冲击复原力。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。

This project will organize and host a virtual workshop focused on developing resilience and adaptation tools that can help society cope more effectively with extreme stressing events. The stressing events are called “shocks” and include natural hazard events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, pandemics, and wildfires. The premise of the workshop is that decision-making and resilience will be improved through development of a “societal shock resilience framework” that more effectively quantifies and visualizes hazard risks, vulnerabilities, responses, and recovery paths. The goal of the workshop is to develop a potential future topic (track) of the NSF Convergence Accelerator. The workshop will identify the potential scope of the topic, the potential deliverables that could result from supporting that topic, the disciplinary expertise that could come together under a convergence research approach, and the partnerships that could be engaged across academia, industry, non-profit organizations, and government if the topic were supported.Society regularly faces “shock” events such as hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and earthquakes and the nation is now facing the possibility that many of these shocks may become more frequent. Existing resilience and adaptation tools are inadequate or not implemented. A key challenge are the socio-cultural-economic barriers that exist between the many groups working to improve shock resilience. A future Convergence Accelerator research track on societal shock resilience can only be realized by leveraging the collective expertise of multiple disciplines, including hazard assessment, ecologic and environmental sciences, engineering disciplines, mathematics and statistics, computer science and software engineering, sociology, psychology, economics and financial stress modeling, public health, public policy, public administration, urban planning, disaster management and emergency response. Expertise in these disciplines spans a wide range of sectors including academic institutions; local, state, and federal government entities; and for-profit and non-profit organizations in the private sector. This workshop seeks to bring together the breadth of disciplinary and sector expertise needed to define the scope of research for an NSF Convergence Accelerator track. The scope defined by the workshop will define efforts that could produce tangible deliverables in less than three years that would improve communities’ resilience to a range of potential shocks. Importantly, the workshop seeks to also define a framework for any set of stakeholders to improve their community’s shock resilience.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.