US-Japan Workshop on Needs, Priorities and Partnerships to Advance Human-Centered Data for Resilience

Despite the technological advances in modeling and simulation of natural hazards and their impacts on engineered systems and structures -- and the innovative mitigation techniques that have resulted -- disaster resilience is, at its heart, a matter of human resilience. This has been an area of interest for the US and Japan in recent years, as both countries have made substantial investments in research infrastructure with a strong network of universities, institutes and centers conducting cutting-edge research at the forefront of hazards, humans and society. Thus it is an opportune time to bring together the research communities that have been cultivated by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and US National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance more human-centered data for resilience research.
In response, US and Japanese hazards and disaster scholars convened The US-Japan Workshop on Needs, Priorities and Partnerships to Advance Human-Centered Data for Resilience through an virtual engagement held on four days between 17-26 October 2022. The workshop gathered nearly 40 leading experts in the natural and applied sciences, engineering and social sciences from the two countries, who worked in virtual collaboration spaces to identify opportunities where US-Japan collaborations can uniquely advance a more human-centered approach to research on disaster resilience, identifying the data, research infrastructure and initiatives necessary for impactful partnership on this subject. This project contains the full workshop report, standalone position papers, and opportunity briefs.