A Clearinghouse on Natural Hazards Research and Applications

CMS 00-80977A自然灾害研究和应用信息中心米莱蒂，丹尼斯·S科罗拉多大学，博尔德该奖项支持在2000年10月至2002年9月期间继续支持科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的自然灾害研究和应用信息中心。该中心作为美国危害研究和从业者社区之间的桥梁的基本功能不会改变。该中心将监测危害研究信息并将其传播给多个用户：管理人员、从业者、政策制定者、工程师和所有学科的科学家。该中心将每年六次出版并向15,000多名订阅者分发《自然灾害观察家》；经营一份电子通讯《灾害研究》；并通过万维网和传统硬拷贝出版物传播信息。此外，该中心将继续与美国土木工程师学会共同赞助《自然灾害评论》杂志，并寻求外部资金，以制作和发行旨在综合最新危险知识的自然灾害信息系列出版物，以便从业者轻松应用。该中心将继续建立其图书馆数据库，并将根据查询每天提供信息。该中心每年将主办一次由危害研究使用者和生产者参加的年度、国家和国际研讨会。它还将通过资助全国各地的研究人员对特定危险事件进行快速反应研究，来支持灾害发生后的社会科学研究。该中心的内部研究计划主要由单独的研究拨款资助，将重点开展《设计的灾难：美国自然灾害的重新评估》(Mileti，1999)中建议的研究，该报告介绍了该中心五年研究项目的结果，该项目总结了已知和未知的自然灾害，并研究了危害与可持续社会的关系。特别是，该中心的研究将解决灾难后可持续恢复的确切含义。促进和确保参与可持续灾害管理的不同学者和从业人员之间的联系仍然是该中心活动面临的最大挑战和最重要的成果。该中心由美国国家科学基金会、联邦紧急事务管理署、国家航空航天局、美国陆军工程兵团、美国地质调查局、美国环境保护局、美国垦荒局和美国交通部共同资助。

CMS 00-80977A Clearinghouse on Natural Hazards Research and ApplicationsMileti, Dennis S.University of Colorado, BoulderThis award supports continuation of support for the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder for the two-year period from October 2000 through September 2002. The Center's basic function, to serve as a bridge between the hazards research and practitioner communities in the United States, will not change. The Center will monitor and disseminate hazards research information to multiple users: administrators, practitioners, policy makers, engineers, and scientists of all disciplines. The Center will publish and distribute the Natural Hazards Observer to over 15,000 subscribers six times a year; operate an electronic newsletter, Disaster Research; and disseminate information via the World Wide Web and traditional hard copy publications. In addition, the Center will continue co-sponsorship of the Natural Hazards Review journal with the American Society of Civil Engineers and seek outside funding to produce and distribute issues of the Natural Hazards Informera publication series designed to synthesize state-of-the-art hazards knowledge so that it can be easily applied by practitioners. The Center will continue to build its library database, and information will be provided on a day-to-day basis in response to inquiries. The Center will sponsor an annual, national and international workshop involving users and producers of hazards research each year. It will also support social science research following disasters by funding researchers throughout the nation to carry out quick response studies of specific hazard events. The Center's in-house research program, which is largely funded with separate research grants, will focus on conducting research recommended in Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States (Mileti, 1999) which presents the results of the Center's five-year research project taking stock of what is known and not known about natural hazards and examining the relationship of hazards to a sustainable society. In particular, the Center's research will address the issue of what, exactly, sustainable recovery from disasters entails.Facilitating and ensuring links among the highly diverse group of academicians and practitioners involved in sustainable hazards management remains the greatest challenge for, and the most significant result of, Center activities.The Center is co-funded by the National Science Foundation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and the U.S. Department of Transportation.