An International Workshop on Prediction and Perception of Natural Hazards

预测和认识自然灾害国际讲习班将于1990年11月在意大利佩鲁贾举行。这次讲习班也由意大利国家研究理事会和联合国减少自然灾害国际十年秘书处赞助。会议的目的是确定美国和其他遭受持续自然灾害后果的国家在预测领域和公众感知领域共同感兴趣的研究领域。物理科学家,来自若干国家的工程师和社会科学家将讨论预测各种自然灾害以及确定和评价影响对现有能力认识的因素的最新方法。​确定这些领域的知识差距和所需的研究将提高我们在不同文化背景下警告和保护处于危险中的人群的能力。

The International Workshop on Prediction and Perception of Natural Disasters will take place in Perugia, Italy, on November 1990. This workshop is sponsored also by the National Research Council of Italy and the United Nations Secretariat for the International Decade for Natural Disasters Reduction. The purpose of the meeting is to determine the areas of research of common interest to the United States and other nations suffering from the consequences of persistent natural disasters, in the field of prediction and in the area of public perception. Physical scientists, engineers and social scientists from several countries will discuss the state-of-the-art of methodologies for the prediction of various natural hazards and for the identification and evaluation of factors influencing the perception of existing capabilities. Determining which are the gaps in knowledge and the needed research in these fields will improve our capabilities for warning and protecting populations at risk within diverse cultural contexts.