NH21C:
Pracademia: Bridging the Gap between Natural Hazards Research and Practice I (Half Session)

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Session ID#: 16779

Session Description:
Natural hazard research often spans disciplinary spaces, across hazard science, engineering, environmental health, social science, education, humanities, and arts. Professionals, such as emergency managers, land-use planners, communicators, policy makers, educators, health professionals and other groups of practitioners use natural hazards research to inform their decision-making. This nexus where research meets practice is often referred to as “pracademia”. The session explores several questions:

  • How are we (as researchers) currently meeting the needs, constraints, and values of practitioners, like emergency managers, professional communicators, land-use planners, engineers, health professionals and decision-makers?
  • How are we (as practitioners) using research to inform decisions and planning in emergency management, risk and crisis communication, and land-use planning?
  • What case studies show best-practice of research and practice working well together as well as examples of lessons learned?

We invite researchers and practitioners to submit abstracts exploring these spaces.

Primary Convener:  Sara McBride, Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Conveners:  Anne M Wein, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center, Middleton, CA, United States and Jane E Rovins, Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Chairs:  Sara McBride, Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Palmerston North, New Zealand and Anne M Wein, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center, Middleton, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sara McBride, Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4335 Disaster management [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4338 Disaster policy [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4342 Emergency management [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Operational Earthquake Forecasting and Earthquake Early Warning: The Challenges of Introducing Scientific Innovations for Public Safety (170993)
James Dennis Goltz, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Effective Collaboration Between Scientists and Local Governments to Improve Scientific Communication for Public Safety in Dallas and Irving, Texas (184602)
Michael L Blanpied1, Suzanne C Perry2, Jason Carriere3, Heather DeShon4, Kevin Oden5, Rocky Vaz5, Robert A Williams6, Brian William Stump7, Chris Hayward7, George L Choy6, Susan M Hoover6, Charles S Mueller6, Nicholas LaGrassa5, Gary Miller8, Mitchell Osburn9 and the Dallas Irving Earthquake Working Group, (1)USGS Headquarters, Reston, United States, (2)USGS, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Office of Emergency Management, Irving, TX, United States, (4)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States, (5)Office of Emergency Management, Dallas, TX, United States, (6)USGS, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States, (7)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States, (8)Inspections Department, Irving, TX, United States, (9)Texas Department of Emergency Management, Austin, TX, United States
Communicating Science Through Participating In Process: The Challenges And Opportunities For Scientists To Participate In Policy Development - An Example From New Zealand (166509)
Wendy Susan Anne Saunders and Russ James Van Dissen, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Participatory evaluation of disaster resilience performance with urban stakeholders: An implementation case study before and after the 2015 Nepal Ghorka earthquake (125983)
Bijan Khazai, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, Johannes Anhorn, Heidelberg University, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, Germany and Christopher G. Burton, Global Earthquake Model Foundation, Pavia, Italy

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