Local Earthquake Mitigation and Preparedness Planning in China and the United States

中华人民共和国中国北京地球物理研究所地震社会学研究室正在进行一项关于地震规划的社会科学联合研究项目，和特拉华大学的灾害研究中心(DRC)，双方将同时研究两个地震多发城市的防震减灾规划(一期)和地震应急规划(二期)国家(旧金山和孟菲斯是美国选择的两个社区)。一般而言，将要求提供资料，说明参与这两种规划的组织的特点、规划措施和安排的性质，规划过程的有问题的方面，以及与群体特征、规划的性质、以及减灾规划和应急准备规划中存在的问题。数据收集研究设计将在两个社会中大致相当，并将通过两名中国研究人员延长对美国的考察访问，在36个月的时间内保持在这项工作上的密切合作。和刚果民主共和国工作人员对中国的更简短访问，以比较研究结果，并商定一份共同报告，列出可以得出的对两个国家转移的影响地震规划的社会技术方向(三期)。此外，刚果民主共和国的研究将在美国的背景下更详细地研究缓解和准备之间存在哪些联系，地震专项防灾规划与所有防灾规划之间的关系，以及防震减灾实践的社会方面。

A joint social science research project on earthquake planning is being undertaken by the Section on Seismosociology of the Institute of Geophysics in Beijing, the People's Republic of China, and the Disaster Research Center (DRC) at the University of Delaware, U.S.A. Each side will concurrently study the earthquake hazard mitigation planning (Phase I) and the earthquake emergency preparedness planning (Phase II) in two earthquake prone cities in their own countries (San Francisco and Memphis are the two communities selected in the United States). In general, information will be sought on the characteristics of the organizations involved in both kinds of planning, the nature of the planning measures and arrangements in place, the problematical aspects of the planning process, and the factors or conditions associated with the character of the groups, the nature of the planning, and the problems in both the hazard mitigation planning and the emergency preparedness planning. The data gathering research design will be roughly comparable in both societies and close collaboration on the work over a 36 month period will be maintained by extended study visits to the United States of two Chinese researchers, and briefer visits of DRC staff to China to compare research results and to agree upon a common report setting forth the implications which can be drawn for the transfer in both directions of the social technology of earthquake planning (Phase III). In addition, the DRC research will examine in more detail for the American context what links exist between mitigation and preparedness, the relationship of earthquake specific and all hazard preparedness planning, and the social aspects of earthquake hazard mitigation practice.