US-USSR Seminar on Social Science Research on Mitigation forand Recovery from Disasters and Large Scale Hazards (Moscow,Russia; June 13-22, 1992)

Drs。特拉华大学的恩里科·库塔利和乔安妮·尼格以及莫斯科制度研究所的康斯坦丁·波波夫院士将合作参加1992年6月在莫斯科举行的关于减轻灾害和大规模灾害后恢复的社会科学研究讨论会。10名美国科学家将前往莫斯科，与10名俄罗斯科学家一起讨论、比较和评估两个小组共同开发的现有知识和研究成果，以期为未来互利的研究合作制定研究议程。这次会议将对加强两国的灾害研究传统产生直接影响，这两个国家在该领域已经处于领先地位。间接地，它应该加速在过去十年中开始形成的国际灾害研究人员网络的发展。来自全国九所大学的美国参与者将代表六个不同的学科；苏联的参与者来自该国不同地区的不同研究部门。最近政治气候的变化使人们能够更自由地交流有关研究成果的资料，并开始开展合作研究项目，这些项目可以大大有助于发展关于灾害的社会科学知识，并将其应用于对危险情况的实际规划和管理。​该项目实现了推进科学知识的计划目标，使美国和俄罗斯的主要研究人员能够在平等、互惠的基础上，在共同感兴趣和有能力的基础科学研究领域结合互补的努力和能力。互惠互利。

Drs. Enrico Quarantelli and Joanne Nigg, University of Delaware, and Academician Konstantin Popov, Institute for System Studies, Moscow will cooperate in a seminar on social science research on mitigation and recovery from disasters and large Scale Hazards in Moscow in June 1992. Ten American scientists will travel to Moscow to join the ten Russian scientists in discussing, comparing and evaluating existing knowledge and research findings as developed by both groups with the idea of developing a research agenda for mutually beneficial future study collaboration. The meeting will have the immediate effect of strengthening the disaster research tradition within the two countries which are already among the leaders in the area. Indirectly, it should accelerate the development of an international network of disaster researchers which has started to come into being in the last decade. American participants drawn from nine universities around the country will represent six different disciplines; the Soviet participants are from different research divisions in different parts of the country. Recent changes in the political climate allow a freer exchange of information about research results and the initiation of collaborative research projects which could contribute significantly to the development of social science knowledge about disasters and its application to the practical planning for and managing of hazardous occasions. This project fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading researchers in the United States and Russia to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence in the field of basic scientific research on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.