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NSF Contributions to Natural Disaster Reduction and Risk Assessments : Research and Education

NSF Contributions to Natural Disaster Reduction and Risk Assessments : Research and Education. Prepared for the Forum on Risk Management and Assessments of Natural Hazards Toward a Safer America: Building Natural Hazard Resistant Communities Through Risk Management and Assessments

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NSF Contributions to Natural Disaster Reduction and Risk Assessments : Research and Education

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  1. NSF Contributions to Natural Disaster Reduction and Risk Assessments: Research and Education Prepared for the Forum on Risk Management and Assessments of Natural Hazards Toward a Safer America: Building Natural Hazard Resistant Communities Through Risk Management and Assessments February 5-6, 2001

  2. Natural Disaster-Related Research at NSF • Over $60 million invested in FY2000 • National Space Weather Program • US Weather Research Program • Earthquake Research (NEHRP) • Risk assessment and management research in Social, Behavioral, Biological, Geophysical, Mathematical and Computer sciences • Educational programs • Support for international research collaborations and workshops

  3. NSF-National Space Weather Program • This program examines sun and solar wind influences on technology systems. • Contact: Richard Behnke, GEO • Investment: About $16 million/year • NSF plans to provide $6M additional in FY00-02 for two large modelling efforts.

  4. NSF supports National Center for Atmospheric Research and NSF awards in joint NSF/NOAA/NASA weather research projects. Infrastructure as well as forecasting and modeling projects build the nation’s capacity to understand and manage severe weather events, • Contact: Steve Nelson, GEO • Investment: about $16 million/yr • Incremental NSF support in fiscal years 2000-2004 for research and infrastructure projects to improve forecasting capabilities for extreme weather events.

  5. National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program at NSF • NSF strives to advance fundamental knowledge in earthquake engineering, earth science processes, and societal preparedness and response to earthquakes. • Supports geoscience, engineering, and social, behavioral and economic research on earthquakes and earthquake hazard mitigation, including geotechnical, structural, architectural, and lifeline systems. New: Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation - NEES • NSF Investment: $38m in FY2000, $59m in FY2001 • Contact: Priscilla Nelson, ENG

  6. Social, behavioral and economic sciences

  7. Education http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/index.html

  8. U.S.-Japan Cooperative Science: Structure, Seismicity and Tectonics of the Japanese Island Arc from New Deep Seismic Exploration US-India/Bangladesh Cooperative Research: Architecture, Dynamics, and Hazards of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta US-Senegal Workshop: West African Monsoon Variability and Predictability, Dakar, Senegal, May 1999 U.S.-Ecuador Planning Visit: Geodynamics, Active Tectonics, and Geological Hazards in the Northern Andes, Ecuador Southern California Earthquake Center SGER: Young Children's Reaction to a Natural Disaster: Memory and Stress Businesses and Disasters: Consequences of Disaster Victimization for Businesses and Business Districts Brains for Intelligent Buildings Under Seismic Loads Biocomplexity - Incubation Activity: Integrated Modeling of the Complementarities and Conflicts Between Ecological Systems and Economic Activities in North Carolina

  9. Present and Future NSF contributions to natural hazards research • Continue collaborating with other agencies • Advance a coordinated extreme events research agenda • Within NSF: Increase investments in research infrastructure, and basic research across the sciences, and interdisciplinary centers and projects - increased emphases on biocomplexity and the environment, information technology, mathematics, and social and behavioral sciences • Across agencies and with other partners

  10. Understanding risk tradeoffs associated with natural hazard management • Improvements in information technology provide new opportunities for social and behavioral scientists to assess, inform, and improve risk decisions and tradeoffs. • Integrated assessments can inform strategic policy choices. Analysis of risk tradeoffs can also reveal where decisions have socially desirable outcomes. • Some mitigation investments may not treat subpopulations equitably. Research on such ethical dimensions can improve the fairness of mitigation programs.

  11. Motivating action • One historic problem in successful implementation of risk reduction efforts has been the lack of understanding of factors that motivate action. • Research on communications and incentives for individual and organizational action to reduce risks, overcome institutional obstacles and institute effective responses would improve practice. • SNDR agencies should work together to identify specific topics where further research is needed.

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