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- Title
- First Expert Panel Meeting on Disaster Research and Planning.
- File
- PB89174460.pdf
- Author(s)
- Pantelic, J.; Stoyle, J.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., September 15, 1988, 80 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- NCEER-88-0045
- Abstract
- In August 1987 the NCEER First Panel on Disaster Research and Planning convened at the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER) in Buffalo, New York. The panel was formed in order to assist NCEER with the establishment of a working plan for NCEER's Disaster Research and Planning Program, the overall goal of which is to expand NCEER's area of concern in the planning, economic, social and political aspects of earthquake impact on social systems. Three key areas were identified to be targets of discussion: research in basic issues of economic, planning, political and other effects of earthquakes on social systems; education in areas of earthquake awareness and risk communication; and implementation of completed research. Some of the most significant recommendations of the panel included NCEER's establishment of state-of-the-art research assessments, NCEER's support of conferences and seminars, and finally more facilitation by NCEER in the process of linking technology transfer to the users of earthquake information.
- Keywords
- Emergency plans; Research projects; Disasters; Economic impact; Technology transfer; Disaster planning; Social effects; Earthquakes; Contingency plans