A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will identify applied research topics, information and expertise that can inform action and collaborative opportunities within the natural hazard mitigation and resilience fields. The committee will convene two public workshops as the primary source of information for its work, supplemented by background materials collected for the workshops and discussions at public sessions of the Resilient America Roundtable.
Each workshop will focus on distinct hazard mitigation and resilience issues and research questions, such as compound and cascading hazard incidents; risk communication and decision making in a changing risk landscape; nature-based solutions, buyouts and managed retreat options for coastal risks; and equity and social vulnerability considerations in risk and decision metrics. Following each workshop, the committee will prepare a brief consensus report that identifies and summarizes key research topics for the applied research community in the specific areas discussed at the workshop. Each report will contain findings but no recommendations and will be limited to the topics covered at that workshop.