VOLCANO: CoV 8. Learning from the past? Historical and archeological perspectives on volcanic hazards, impacts and responses

[Chelsea Allison <cmalliso@xxxxxxx>]

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CoV 8. Learning from the past? Historical and archeological perspectives on volcanic hazards, impacts and responses

From: Kathy Cashman <glkvc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Dear colleagues

For those of you who use the past to understand the impact of volcanic eruptions on society, consider submitting an abstract to session 3.II.A "Learning from the past? Historical and archeological perspectives on volcanic hazards, impacts and responses", to be held at the Cities on Volcanoes 8 meeting in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (9-13 September 2014). We invite contributions that span from volcanology to history, anthropology and archeology. We are particularly interested in studies that use past records of eruptions, impacts and response to bring new perspectives to current challenges in handing both volcanic crises and the aftermath of damaging volcanic events. A full session description is provided below - we look forward to an interesting session!

Felix Riede

Kathy Cashman

Contemporary risk reduction research is increasingly turning towards traditional local/ecological knowledge for designing culturally sensitive, efficient and cost-effective mitigation measures. As early as 1974, the pioneering disaster sociologist Gilbert White argued that comprehensive natural hazard response and resilience measures should include both ‘industrial’ (scientific, technical) and ‘pre-industrial’ (traditional) elements. However, not all pre-industrial disaster responses are effective, and they can at times run counter to industrial mitigation measures as demonstrated by tensions evident between local and scientific views on recent volcanic crises. For this reason, it is critical to both evaluate the origin of these tensions and to design implementation strategies that bring elements of traditional knowledge in harmony with modern mitigation measures. This session invites papers on the investigation and evaluation of traditional responses to volcanic events, especially historical and archaeological perspectives, and on the role of traditional knowledge in contemporary hazard scenarios. One aim of this session is to explore whether and how the record of past volcanism and human response – i.e. the interdisciplinary combination of geology, history and archaeology – can be employed in risk reduction in the present. In line with the overarching theme of the conference, this session investigates how these forms of cultural heritage can reduce conflict between different ways of hazard perception and contribute to ‘bridging the will of nature into society’.

Katharine Cashman

School of Earth Sciences

University of Bristol

Queens Road

Bristol BS8 1RJ

UK

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