Earthquakes without frontiers: a partnership for increasing resilience to seismic hazard in the continents

我们确定了以下四类学术受益人：1）研究大陆活动断层和应变分布的研究人员。研究从中亚到中国地区构造的人员。研究使用大地应变测量的人员，使用组合GPS+干涉合成孔径雷达速度场作为目前只研究GPS领域的人员的比较基准，例如目前进入GEM的人员。使用卫星雷达干涉测量研究大陆变形的其他区域，或研究其他自然和人为现象，如火山变形，滑坡和地表沉降，将受益于我们将开发的新的自动化处理工具，以及将干涉合成孔径雷达和GPS数据相结合的区域变形图制作新方法。该项目中生成的视线变形图和应变场将在国家地球观测数据中心存档，并通过简单的网络界面提供给社区，允许其他人使用它们进行自己的调查。2）那些从事地震次生影响工作的人。从事大规模浪费和次生灾害工作的人们将受益于开发基于流程的，而不是严格的经验主义，方法的规模和范围的滑坡。我们的工作对那些对造山带沉积物的供应和输送感兴趣的研究人员也很重要;通过开发第一个明确的工具来跟踪地震后沉积物的流动性，我们不仅可以量化这一过程所代表的危险，但也将有助于正在出现的关于造山带规模的物质平衡和对扰动的反应的辩论。从事复原力和减少灾害风险工作的人员：从事地面运动建模和地震危险评估工作的人员将受益于更好地了解决策者的信息需求，以及需要如何开发现有技术来应对研究家庭、社区和国家在地震灾害面前的脆弱性和复原力的学者将受益于所开展的详细比较研究。在减少灾害风险领域工作的研究人员将受益于工具的开发，这是第一个此类工具，用于加强在各种社会政治环境中对地震和相关灾害的复原力。虽然研究将集中在地震和相关灾害，但研究结果也将适用于关注火山和海啸等其他自然灾害的学者。我们的工作对那些对减少灾害风险治理感兴趣的研究人员也很重要，他们将受益于对支持减少灾害风险活动的不同治理系统（正式和非正式）的详细评估。我们在这里的研究将有助于围绕国际政策框架（兵库行动框架）转化为国家一级的政策和实践的新出现的辩论。我们将开发一个非常需要的概念/理论框架，用于理解，交流和结合当地，从业者和科学知识，以有效降低风险。4）那些从事行动研究和将研究转化为实践的人。从事科学政策研究的人员将受益于该项目产生的关于如何在各种社会政治背景下确保科学吸收的见解。

We identify the following four groups of academic beneficiaries:1) Researchers working on active faulting and the distribution of strain in the continents.People working on the tectonics of the region from Central Asia to China.People working on the use of geodetic strain measurement to use the combined GPS+InSAR velocity fields as a benchmark of comparison for people currently working solely on GPS only fields, such as currently go into GEM.People using satellite radar interferometry to study other areas of continental deformation, or to study other natural and man-made phenomena such as volcano deformation, landsliding, and surface subsidence, will benefit from the new automated processing tools that we will develop, and from the new methods for the production of regional deformation maps that integrate InSAR and GPS data. The line-of-sight deformation maps and strain fields produced in the project will be archived in the National Earth Observation Data Centre, and made available to the community via a simple web interface that will allow others to use them for their own investigations.2) Those working on secondary effects of earthquakes.People working on mass wasting and secondary hazards will benefit from the development of a process-based, rather than strictly empirical, approach to the magnitude and scope of landsliding. Our work will also be important to researchers interested in the supply and transport of sediment through orogens; by developing the first explicit tools for tracking post-seismic sediment mobility we will not only quantify the hazard represented by this process, but will also contribute to emerging debates on orogen-scale mass balance and response to perturbations.3) Those working on resilience and disaster risk reduction.People working on ground motion modelling and seismic hazard assessment will benefit from a greater understanding of the information needs of decision makers and how existing techniques need to be developed to respond to these needs.Academics researching the vulnerability and resilience of households, communities, and states to seismic-related hazards will benefit from the detailed comparative studies undertaken. Researchers working in the field of disaster risk reduction will benefit from the development of tools, the first of their kind, to strengthen resilience to earthquake and related-hazards across a range of socio-political settings. While the research will focus on earthquake and associated hazards, the findings will also be applicable to academics concerned with other natural hazards including volcanoes and tsunamis. Our work will also be important to researchers interested in governance of disaster risk reduction who will benefit from the detailed evaluations of different governance systems (both formal and informal) supporting disaster risk reduction activities. Our research here will contributeto emerging debates around the translation of international policy frameworks (Hyogo Framework for Action) into national level policy and practice. We will develop a much needed conceptual/theoretical framework for understanding, communicating and combining local, practitioner and scientific knowledge for effective risk reduction.4) Those working on action research and translation of research into practice. People working in science-policy studies who will benefit from the insights arising from the project into how the uptake of science can be secured in a variety of socio-political contexts.