Planning: CRISES: Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Catastrophic Surprises

规划：危机：灾难性意外研究跨学科中心

• 批准号: 2334354
• 负责人: Tricia Wachtendorf
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2334354&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; CRISES; Interdisciplinary; Center; Study

Understanding that a catastrophic surprising event (such as a major natural disaster, public health crisis, or unanticipated military or terrorist attack) is about to occur has long been an aspiration of public and private sector crisis managers. This planning grant seeks to develop the basic science needed to understand, theorize, and forewarn against potentially catastrophic surprises. It provides support to identify and recruit partners to establish a team for a national-level center that draws on multiple branches of knowledge to develop new ways of representing surprise dangers for officials, policymakers, and the public - especially those who are politically and economically marginalized - with the explicit goal of determining ways to better anticipate, avert, or contend with catastrophic surprise. To address hazards, whether surprising or not, requires an interdisciplinary approach that integrates knowledge of how the natural and built environments interact with social systems. Through this grant, the core planning team - comprised of faculty in the social, health, and engineering sciences - will bring together their expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods, community-based participatory research, risk modeling, field epidemiology, policy analyses and mapping, and quick response disaster research. They will identify and recruit additional partners across various scientific domains from the academic, private, and public sector to collaboratively conceptualize surprises that can prove catastrophic and identify application domains for critical investigation. Methods include numerous meetings for scientific discussion and deliberation; use of new technologies for remote collaboration; and creativity-enhancing approaches such as idea-matrices that have been identified in the management literatures. This planning grant surfaces new approaches that are needed, and for which no other disaster-related center cohesively addresses, providing a springboard to move beyond previous efforts to generate a transformative understanding of surprising events. The broader impacts of the grant include the development of a center proposal, an article that will present the planning group’s state-of-the-science thinking on surprises, and the integration of the intellectual capital developed during the planning stage into coursework for students pursuing work in the disaster management field.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.

了解灾难性意外事件（如重大自然灾害、公共卫生危机或意想不到的军事或恐怖袭击）即将发生，一直是公共和私营部门危机管理人员的愿望。这项规划拨款旨在发展理解、理论化和预警潜在灾难性意外所需的基础科学。 它为确定和招募合作伙伴提供支持，以建立一个国家级中心的团队，该团队利用多个知识分支为官员，政策制定者和公众-特别是那些在政治和经济上被边缘化的人-开发新的方法来表示意外危险，明确的目标是确定更好地预测，避免或应对灾难性意外的方法。为了应对灾害，无论是令人惊讶的还是不令人惊讶的，都需要一种跨学科的方法，将自然环境和人造环境如何与社会系统相互作用的知识结合起来。通过这笔赠款，核心规划团队-由社会，健康和工程科学的教师组成-将汇集他们在定量和定性方法，以社区为基础的参与性研究，风险建模，现场流行病学，政策分析和绘图以及快速反应灾害研究方面的专业知识。 他们将从学术、私营和公共部门的各个科学领域中确定和招募更多的合作伙伴，以合作概念化可能被证明是灾难性的惊喜，并确定用于关键调查的应用领域。方法包括许多会议的科学讨论和审议;使用新技术进行远程协作;和创意增强的方法，如思想矩阵，已在管理文献中确定。这项规划拨款提出了所需的新方法，并且没有其他与灾害相关的中心能够连贯地解决这些问题，从而提供了一个跳板，超越了以前的努力，从而对令人惊讶的事件产生了变革性的理解。更广泛的影响，赠款包括发展一个中心的建议，一篇文章，将提出规划组的国家的科学思想的惊喜，以及将规划阶段开发的智力资本整合到从事灾害管理领域工作的学生的课程中。该奖项反映了NSF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。