Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers

每年，自然、技术和人为灾害都会影响全球数百万人，造成数千人死亡和数十亿美元的损失。吸引新的学者到危害，风险和灾害领域是推进知识，可以导致减少灾害损失和全面改善紧急情况和灾害的管理至关重要。“培养下一代危害和灾害研究人员”方案（以下简称“培养方案”）将支持大学的初级教师开展研究和教学工作，为减少灾害损失提供信息，并改进处理危害和灾害的方式。授权方案的目的是：（1）促进学者的发展，使他们对危害、风险和灾害的研究有长期的职业承诺;（2）为国家未来减少灾害损失的研究能力和基础设施做出贡献;（3）为危害、风险和灾害领域增加重要的原始科学知识，以减少社会脆弱性。减少脆弱性和风险需要系统的跨学科努力，以改善灾害管理的所有阶段，并广泛发展抗灾能力。除了纳入各种各样的学科，告知减少风险的挑战，扶持方案还致力于招聘和辅导妇女和代表性不足的群体的成员，扶持方案是至关重要的跨学科灾害领域的知识进步，这依赖于学者致力于自己的学科和危害和灾害领域的理论和应用方面。这是一个独特的组合，并通过指导过程中，使能计划鼓励学术发展的独特类型，并建立对危害和灾害领域的承诺。因此，该计划提供了重大的研究贡献。首先，它继续帮助建立一个研究人员谁可以理解和解决与危害相关的社会，建筑和自然环境之间的复杂相互作用的队列。该授权计划将建立在前几轮的成功，导致了令人印象深刻的学术产出水平。此外，通过继续明确鼓励跨学科教育和灾害培训的模式，该计划将帮助年轻研究人员提高研究质量和数量，这将使美国各地受益。

Every year natural, technological, and human-induced hazards impact millions of people worldwide, resulting in thousands of deaths and billions of dollars of damage. Attracting new scholars to the fields of hazards, risk, and disasters is vital for advancing knowledge that can lead to disaster loss reduction and overall improvement in the management of emergencies and disasters. The "Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers" program [hereafter the Enabling Program] will support junior faculty at universities in developing research and teaching efforts that inform disaster loss reduction and improve the ways in which hazards and disasters are addressed. The aims of the Enabling Program are to: (1) foster the development of scholars with a career-long commitment to research on hazards, risk, and disasters; (2) contribute to the nation's future research capacity and infrastructure for reducing disaster loss; and (3) add important original scientific knowledge to the areas of hazards, risk, and disasters to reduce societal vulnerability. Vulnerability and risk reduction require systematic interdisciplinary efforts for improving all phases of disaster management and to the development of resiliency on a broad scale. In addition to incorporating a wide variety of disciplines that inform the challenge of risk reduction, the Enabling Program is also committed to recruiting and mentoring women and members of underrepresented groups.The Enabling Program is crucial to the advancement of knowledge in the interdisciplinary hazards field, which relies on scholars committed both to their own disciplines and to theoretical and applied aspects of the hazards and disasters field. This is a unique combination, and through the mentoring process, the Enabling Program encourages a distinctive type of scholarly development and builds commitment to the hazards and disasters field. As such, the program offers significant research contributions. First, it continues to help build a cohort of researchers who can understand and address the complex interactions between the social, built, and natural environment associated with hazards. The Enabling Program will build on the success of previous rounds that resulted in an impressive level of scholarly output. Additionally, by continuing a model of explicit encouragement of interdisciplinary education and training around hazards and disasters, the program will assist younger researchers in enhanced research quality and quantity, which benefits every region across the U.S.