Workshop on Disaster Research: Taking Stock and Taking Action: Disaster Research and the Challenges Ahead; Newark, Delaware; May 1-2, 2014

这个项目是一个跨学科的讲习班，重点是建立一个灾害研究议程，以便系统地发展知识和解决办法，以减少美国发生环境和技术灾害的风险。来自美国和世界各地的150多名来自工程、社会科学和地球科学领域的顶尖灾害专家将根据日益增加的社会脆弱性探索现有知识，并提出我们所知道的和我们需要知道的如何帮助社会应对持续存在的危害。与会者将重点讨论减少灾害风险的科学研究成果与灾害政策的采用和实施之间的关系。社会效益包括加强灾害和应急官员对科学知识的利用，从而提高社区对灾害的复原力。为期两天的讲习班围绕两个全体会议和四个工作组会议组织。它将首次包括危害和灾害研究人员与实施科学研究人员的多学科整合。研讨会将通过在参与者到达之前、在整个研讨会期间、在多个环境中以及之后收集参与者的评论和数据，指出一种全新的看待危险的方式。这一过程将实现对来自所有领域的大量有影响力的灾害科学家的观点的最全面的评估，这是迄今为止所尝试过的。研讨会的目标是激发对危害知识现状的讨论，并渗透关于危害的新思维，使社区远离标准的研究主题，并探讨研究如何以有意义的方式为政策提供信息，并在多种规模的活动中实现。因此，研讨会应该激发新的研究项目，在科学家之间发起新的合作，为官员的参与产生新的想法，并激发新学者和经验丰富的退伍军人的想象力。

This project is an interdisciplinary workshop focused on establishing a disaster research agenda for the systematic development of knowledge and solutions aimed at reducing the risk of environmental and technological disasters in the United States. Over 150 of the leading disaster experts from engineering, social science, and geoscience from the United States and from around the globe will probe existing knowledge in light of increasing societal vulnerability and suggest how what we know and what we need to know can help the society confront the persistence of hazard. The workshop participants will focus upon the relationship between scientific research findings on disaster risk reduction and disaster policy adoption and implementation. Societal benefits include enhanced utilization of scientific knowledge by disaster and emergency officials that should increase the resilience of communities to disasters.The two-day workshop is organized around two plenary and four working group sessions. It will for the first time include the multidisciplinary integration of hazard and disaster researchers with researchers from implementation science. The workshop will point to an entirely new way of looking at hazards by collecting commentary and data from participants before they arrive, throughout the workshop in multiple settings, and after as well. This process will achieve the most complete assessment of the views of a large number of influential disaster scientists, from all areas, than has heretofore been attempted. The workshop's goal is to provoke discussion on the present state of hazard knowledge and to percolate fresh thinking about hazard that takes the community away from standard research topics and to looking about how that research can inform policy in ways that make sense and are implementable at multiple scales of activity. The workshop should therefore incite new research projects, initiate fresh collaborations amongst scientists, generate new ideas for engaging officials, and stimulate the imaginations of newer scholars and experienced veterans.