1st International Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction; January 18-22, 2005; Kobe, Japan

这笔赠款将使日本地震工程协会(JAEE)邀请的大约10-15名地震工程专家参加纪念1995年神户地震十周年的地震工程国际研讨会。这些美国代表将参加国际研讨会和几个小组讨论，并提交技术论文，报告过去十年美国在地震工程方面进行的重大研究。这笔赠款还将使30名科学家和工程师能够与日本社会安全科学研究所(ISSS)合作，规划第一届国际城市减灾会议(ICUDR1)，并参加2005年1月18日至20日举行的纪念日本神户阪神大地震的会议。这次会议将在为美国和日本未来的灾害研究和减灾计划和政策制定建议方面产生影响。这两次会议将产生美国和日本的联合决议，这些决议将在2005年1月18日至22日在神户举行的联合国世界减灾会议特别会议上提出。预计ICUDR1和国际研讨会的决议将影响联合国国际减灾战略的未来方案。

ABSTRACTThis grant will enable approximately 10 -15 earthquake engineering experts, who have been invited by the Japan Association of Earthquake Engineering (JAEE) to participate in the International Symposium on Earthquake Engineering Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the1995 Kobe Earthquake. These US representatives will take part in the international workshop and several panel discussions and present technical papers reporting on significant research in earthquake engineering carried out in the US during the past decade. This grant will also enable 30 scientists and engineers to collaborate with the Institute of Social Safety Science (ISSS) in Japan in the planning the 1st International Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction (ICUDR1) and participation in the conference, January 18 - 20, 2005 to commemorate the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, Japan. The conference will be influential in establishing recommendations for future disaster research and disaster mitigation programs and policies in the US and Japan. Both conferences will generate joint US/Japan resolutions, which will be introduced during a special session of the UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction sponsored in Kobe, January 18 - 22, 2005. It is expected that the resolutions from the ICUDR1 and the International Symposium will influence future programs of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.