Narrowing the knowledge-action gap for infrastructure: The role for science policy

摘要: 1. PurposeThe purpose of this Special Report is to provide science-policy makers and science-funding program managers with evidence-based recommendations to help address a critical national problem: crumbling, inadequate, and outmoded infrastructure. The report provides recommendations (see Figure 1 and p4-6) that would help the scientific enterprise make and exchange knowledge in ways that are more likely to support societal needs. While solutions to the Nation’s infrastructure crisis requires much more than more scientific knowledge and different modes of organizing and supporting science, science-derived insight can nevertheless play a key role in informing economical, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure improvements.Story after infrastructure story about the Nation’s crumbling, inadequate, and outdated infrastructure—polluted water supplies (Hanna-Attisha et al. 2016), failing dams (ASCE …