Document by the IAVCEI Task Group on Crisis Protocols
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Dear colleagues,
The IAVCEI Task Group on Crisis Protocols was launched at the 2013 IAVCEI General Assembly in Kagoshima with the aim of providing updated guidelines to practising volcanologists involved in volcanic hazards and risk mitigation. The starting point was the document issued by the IAVCEI Sub-committee for Crisis Protocols in 1999 (Bulletin of Volcanology, 60, 323-334), broadened as scopes in view of the aftermath of the L' Aquila earthquake and trial which involved scientists in charge of crisis management (see IAVCEI Newsletter 2012, No. 4, p. 2-9; 2013, No.1, p. 2-3 and No. 2, p. 11-13). At Cities on Volcanoes 8 in Yogyakarta the Task Group became affiliated to the recently formed Commission on Volcanic Hazards and Risk. The Task Group has now completed, as scheduled, its deliberations and a document for IAVCEI in the form of Guidelines.
The document is written as recommendations and principles useful not only for pratictioners but for the whole volcanological community and calls for further actions by IAVCEI Commissions and Workgroups.
The document can be read in the latest IAVCEI Newsletter 2015 No.2 at pages 13-15 and downloaded from the IAVCEI website homepage (click on link to NEW IAVCEI GUIDELINES for eruption hazards and risk management ).
All IAVCEI members are invited to consider the document and provide comments to Guido Giordano, Chair of the Task Group, at guido.giordano@xxxxxxxxxxx and/or at the IAVCEI2015 General Assembly in Prague from 26th June to 1st July, this year.
Regards
Guido Giordano
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