IRES: Quantifying Disaster Risk Reduction Geographic Information Capacity with United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security and University of Bonn Germany

非技术性摘要：这项面向学生的国际研究体验(IRES)侧重于量化减少灾害风险的地理信息能力。每年，来自罗彻斯特理工学院(RIT)的五名美国研究生将与位于德国波恩的联合国大学环境与人类安全研究所(UNU-EHS)和波恩大学(UBonn)的合作者一起参加为期十周的夏季研究体验。协作活动的重点包括学生接触和向联合国大学环境与卫生部门、波恩大学和其他国际减少灾害风险专家学习，学生研究培训活动，空间数据集的获取，以及进入只有在波恩才有的国际科学网络。主要的学生研究项目是创建并严格评估减少灾害风险--信息能力指数(DRR-ICI)。当前不存在DRR-ICI。DRR-ICI的科学目的是量化和评估减少灾害风险的地理信息能力，如信息的可获得性、规模和相关性，这些能力在德国国内和国家之间各有不同。该项目将通过建立与国际组织的独特联系来促进发现和理解，同时促进教学、培训和学习，这些国际组织将培训、教育和专业发展侧重于减少灾害风险和地理信息系统的下一代跨学科STEM研究科学家。IRES学生创造的智力产品，如DRR-ICI，将为社会带来重要的好处，可以引起全球对减少灾害风险研究和地理信息系统在灾害发生时可能拯救生命的关注。该项目在加强研究和教育基础设施方面尤其强大，因为IRES的学生将成为联合国和德国灾害利益攸关方网络的一部分，这两个网络只有在邦现场才能获得。技术摘要：研究团队将创造关于理解地理信息能力和减少灾害风险之间关系的变革性知识？尽管地理信息对减少灾害风险具有总体重要性，但这一领域几乎没有受到研究关注。学生为创建和评价DRR-ICI所做的研究工作将对理解(A)减少灾害风险地理信息能力本身是一个灾害风险因素，(B)地理信息能力如何与地理信息最佳做法挂钩，以及(C)比较国家之间和国家内的国家以下各级的地理信息能力，以便为灾害管理决策提供信息，作出宝贵的智力贡献。由学生开发的DRR-ICI将为减少灾害风险的教学和学习提供实用的智力产品，在发生灾难时可以过渡到实际使用。

Non technical abstract:This International Research Experience for Students (IRES) is focused on quantifying disaster risk reduction geographic information capacities. Each year, a cohort of five U.S. graduate students from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) will participate in a ten-week summer research experience with collaborators at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and the University of Bonn (UBonn) - both located in Bonn, Germany. Highlights of collaborative activities include student access to and learning from UNU-EHS, UBonn, and other international disaster risk reduction experts, student research training activities, spatial data set acquisition, and access to international scientific networks only available in Bonn. The primary student research project is to create and rigorously evaluate a Disaster Risk Reduction - Information Capacity Index (DRR-ICI). A DRR-ICI currently does not exist. The scientific purpose of the DRR-ICI is to quantify and evaluate how disaster risk reduction geographic information capacities such as information availability, scale and relevancy vary within Germany and from country to country. The project will advance discovery and understanding while promoting teaching, training, and learning by creating unique linkages to international organizations that will train, educate and professionally develop the next generation of interdisciplinary STEM research scientists focused on disaster risk reduction and GIS. Intellectual products created by IRES students, such as the DRR-ICI, will provide important benefits to society that can bring global attention to disaster risk reduction research and GIS potentially saving lives when disasters occur. The project is particularly strong in enhancing infrastructure for research and education as IRES students will become part of both the UN and German disaster stakeholder networks that are only available by being on-site in Bonn.Technical abstract:The research team will create transformative knowledge on understanding the relationship between geographic information capacity and disaster risk reduction ? an area that has received little research attention despite the overall importance of geographic information for disaster risk reduction. Student research efforts to create and evaluate a DRR-ICI will make valuable intellectual contributions to understanding (a) how disaster risk reduction geographic information capacity is itself a disaster risk factor, (b) how geographic information capacity can be tied to geographic information best practices, and (c) comparing geographic information capacities between countries and sub-national levels within countries to inform disaster management decision making. The DRR-ICI developed by students will provide practical, intellectual products for disaster risk reduction teaching and learning that can transition into real use in the event of a disaster.