A Clearinghouse on Natural Hazards Research Applications

自然灾害研究应用信息交换所

• 批准号: 0734304
• 负责人: Kathleen Tierney
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-10-01 至 2010-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0734304&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Clearinghouse; Natural; Hazards; Research; Applications

The Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder serves as the nation's clearinghouse for knowledge on the societal dimensions of hazards, disasters, and risk. The center is a unit within the Institute of Behavioral Science at CU Boulder. The NHC provides a variety of services for hazards researchers, practitioners in both public and private sectors, students, and the public at large. Those services include: a web site, http://www.colorado.edu/hazards, which provides information and links for the hazards community worldwide; a newsletter, the Natural Hazards Observer, which is designed to promote information-sharing among researchers, emergency management professionals, funding agencies, and decision makers; post-disaster quick-response research funding that enables researchers and students to collect perishable data and identify lessons learned following disasters; a 33,000-item library, web-searchable data base, and customized information services; a book, monograph, and report series; and periodic publications designed to provide research-based guidance to hazards professionals and decision makers. The NHC also serves as a training center for graduate and undergraduate students seeking careers in hazard-related fields. The NHC serves both the scientific community and the broader U.S. public by encouraging knowledge exchange among the research community, professional emergency managers, governmental and private sector officials, and the general public. The center is a leader in promoting evidence-based emergency management and in working to see that hazard and disaster management policies and programs have a sound basis in scientific research. At the same time, through its many contacts outside academe, the NHC also encourages the incorporation of real-world experiences and issues within the research process. Center staff are often called upon by the media, government agencies, and private sector organizations to explain and interpret social science knowledge on disasters and hazards.

科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的自然危害中心是该国的交换所，以了解有关危害，灾难和风险的社会维度的知识。该中心是Cu Boulder行为科学研究所的一个单位。 NHC为危害研究人员，公共部门和私营部门，学生以及整个公众提供各种服务。 这些服务包括：网站，http：//www.colorado.edu/hazards，为全球危害社区提供信息和链接；新闻通讯，自然危害观察者，旨在促进研究人员，紧急管理专业人员，资助机构和决策者之间的信息共享；灾后快速响应研究资金，使研究人员和学生能够收集可腐烂的数据并确定灾难后所学到的经验教训；一个33,000个项目库，可搜索的数据库和自定义信息服务；一本书，专着和报告系列；以及旨在为危害专业人员和决策者提供基于研究的指导的定期出版物。 NHC还担任研究生和本科生在危险相关领域寻求职业的培训中心。 NHC通过鼓励研究界，专业急诊管理人员，政府和私营部门官员以及公众之间的知识交流来为科学界和更广泛的美国公众提供服务。 该中心是促进基于证据的应急管理的领导者，并努力了解危害和灾难管理政策和计划在科学研究中具有合理的基础。 同时，通过Academe以外的许多联系，NHC还鼓励将现实世界的经验和问题纳入研究过程。 媒体，政府机构和私营部门组织经常要求中心工作人员解释和解释社会科学关于灾难和危害的知识。