NSF Convergence Accelerator Workshop: Integrated research on societal infrastructure resilience to stressing events through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary convergence

NSF 融合加速器研讨会：通过跨学科和跨学科融合，对社会基础设施对应激事件的恢复能力进行综合研究

• 批准号: 2124634
• 负责人: Christine Goulet
• 金额: $ 9.93万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-15 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2124634&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Convergence; Accelerator; Workshop; Integrated

This project will organize and host a virtual workshop focused on developing resilience and adaptation tools that can help society cope more effectively with extreme stressing events. The stressing events are called “shocks” and include natural hazard events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, pandemics, and wildfires. The premise of the workshop is that decision-making and resilience will be improved through development of a “societal shock resilience framework” that more effectively quantifies and visualizes hazard risks, vulnerabilities, responses, and recovery paths. The goal of the workshop is to develop a potential future topic (track) of the NSF Convergence Accelerator. The workshop will identify the potential scope of the topic, the potential deliverables that could result from supporting that topic, the disciplinary expertise that could come together under a convergence research approach, and the partnerships that could be engaged across academia, industry, non-profit organizations, and government if the topic were supported.Society regularly faces “shock” events such as hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and earthquakes and the nation is now facing the possibility that many of these shocks may become more frequent. Existing resilience and adaptation tools are inadequate or not implemented. A key challenge are the socio-cultural-economic barriers that exist between the many groups working to improve shock resilience. A future Convergence Accelerator research track on societal shock resilience can only be realized by leveraging the collective expertise of multiple disciplines, including hazard assessment, ecologic and environmental sciences, engineering disciplines, mathematics and statistics, computer science and software engineering, sociology, psychology, economics and financial stress modeling, public health, public policy, public administration, urban planning, disaster management and emergency response. Expertise in these disciplines spans a wide range of sectors including academic institutions; local, state, and federal government entities; and for-profit and non-profit organizations in the private sector. This workshop seeks to bring together the breadth of disciplinary and sector expertise needed to define the scope of research for an NSF Convergence Accelerator track. The scope defined by the workshop will define efforts that could produce tangible deliverables in less than three years that would improve communities’ resilience to a range of potential shocks. Importantly, the workshop seeks to also define a framework for any set of stakeholders to improve their community’s shock resilience.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将组织并举办一个专注于开发弹性和适应工具的虚拟研讨会，这些研讨会可以帮助社会更有效地应对极端的压力事件。压力事件称为“冲击”，包括飓风，地震，地板，大流浪者和野火等自然危害事件。研讨会的前提是，通过开发“社会冲击弹性框架”，决策和韧性将得到提高，从而更有效地量化和可视化危害风险，脆弱性，反应和恢复道路。研讨会的目的是开发NSF收敛加速器的潜在未来主题（轨道）。研讨会将确定主题的潜在范围，支持该主题可能导致的潜在可交付成果，在融合研究方法下可能会汇集的纪律专业知识以及可以在学术界，非营​​利组织，非营利组织以及政府之间与之互动的伙伴关系，以及如果支持该主题，则在支持该主题的情况下。这些冲击中的许多可能性可能会更频繁。现有的弹性和适应工具是不足或未实施的。一个关键的挑战是许多旨在改善冲击的群体之间存在的社会文化 - 经济障碍，只有通过利用多个学科的集体专业知识，包括危害评估，生态学和环境科学，工程学和统计学，计算机科学，计算机科学，社会学，社会学，社会学，社会学，社会学，社会学，社会学，社会学，社会学，社会学，社会学和软件，才能实现社会冲击恢复能力的未来收敛加速器研究轨迹。政策，公共管理，城市规划，灾难管理和应急响应。这些学科的专业知识涵盖了包括学术机构在内的广泛部门；地方，州和联邦政府实体；以及私营部门的营利性组织和非营利组织。该研讨会旨在将纪律和部门专业知识的广度汇总在一起，以定义NSF收敛加速器轨道的研究范围。研讨会定义的范围将定义努力，该努力可能会在不到三年的时间内产生切实的可交付成果，从而提高社区对一系列潜在冲击的韧性。重要的是，该研讨会也试图为任何一组利益相关者定义一个框架，以提高社区的冲击弹性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估，被认为是珍贵的支持。