CoV9. Session S1.11 Volcanic hazards knowledge and awareness in places without frequent eruptions: how to wait for the next eruption
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Dear Colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention on the CoV9 Session S1.11 Volcanic hazards knowledge and awareness in places without frequent eruptions: how to wait for the next eruption.
Many volcanoes around the world erupted in the last millennia and often shown sign of activity in very recent time, e.g. Santorini, Campi Flegrei, Tenerife, Auckland, Mt. Fuji, Mt. Rainier etc. For these volcanoes science community effort is particularly focused on both hazard evaluation and improvement of the monitoring system. However is still very complex dealing with peculiar aspects such as primarily the uncertainty in the hazard assessment and the acknowledgement of an unrest phase. Consequently actions have to be undertaken in order to face other aspects as how to communicate the volcanic hazard and its uncertainty and to maintain an adequate level of awareness in the resident population. These peculiar topics are the main issues to discuss in the proposed session.
Please find the details about the session below:
Title of the session: Volcanic hazards knowledge and awareness in places without frequent eruptions: how to wait for the next eruption
Topic related :Volcanic hazard assessment; Hazard awareness, Communication of volcanic hazard
Proposers:
Rosella Nave, Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia sez. Osservatorio Vesuviano Napoli, ITALY (INGV-OV), e-mail: rosella.nave@xxxxxxx
Roberto Isaia, Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia sez. Osservatorio Vesuviano Napoli, ITALY (INGV-OV), e-mail: roberto.isaia@xxxxxxx
Joan Martì, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), SPAIN, e-mail: joanmartimolist@xxxxxxxxx
Jun Okada, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), e-mail: jun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Brief description of the proposed session:
Regions or urban areas characterized by presence of active volcanoes but without eruptive events occurred since long time, show peculiarities in approaching knowledge of the hazard not related to direct experience of volcanic crises, and with indirect experience (e.g education, mass media ecc) that can “shape” this knowledge to some degree.
Connected to this item some main issues can be highlighted as:· Level of scientific hazard knowledge and assessment and possibility to improve;
· Volcanic hazard knowledge and hazard awareness both in different stakeholders involved and in resident population “waiting for” a future eruption: how to asses and improve it
· Communication of the hazard: hazard tools as maps and their communicative value, long run communication efficacy; the role of mass media, science community and decision makers; possible crying wolf problem
In different places in the world there are urban areas, that are facing these unique aspects of volcanic hazard knowledge, and that have developed and experienced different approaches and solutions of the related problems occurred.
The aim of this session is to give space to case studies, sharing experiences, comparing occurred problems and adopted strategies, in order to try to develop shared procedures in managing volcanic hazard knowledge.
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