Volcanoes in the cities: non institutional communication in volcanic areas
As part of Symposium 3: Cities on Volcanoes: enhancing preparedness and resilience
Risk awareness is the basis of a right behaviour in case of volcanic disaster. The sensitization to natural risks hanging over volcanic territories must be done through public education, enhancing conscious and informed learning about their features. For this reason, communicating volcanological science properly and broadly has a particular importance in volcanic areas.
This goal can be better reached if, together with communication activities carried out by institutions devoted to study volcanoes and mitigating their risks, another efficient kind of communication, a non-institutional one, is performed.
Specific communication projects, less formal and disseminated throughout the cities in places such as schools, libraries, public parks, bookstores, cinemas and theatres, can involve common people into a perceptive training of a real “territorial awareness” about volcanoes and their meaning.
Science visitor centres in volcanic areas like “Houses” and Museums have an important role too, allowing visitors and local people to engage relationship not only with scientific features, showed in an interactive and fascinating way, but also with the local history and society to learn about life around volcanoes, implementing temporary exhibitions, editions of books and documentary productions, workshop, lectures for the general public.
Furthermore field trips devoted to different features of the volcanic landscapes, often declared protected areas for their geological or biodiversity values, can support the experience making it a real improvement of conscious knowledge.
We invite contributions on this topic to share experiences of informal communication of volcanoes, to increase and improve methods and tools, for a better ”volcanic life”.
Adriana Nave (Associazione Scintille - Somma Vesuviana (NA), ITALY; scintilleassociazione@g
Jaime Coello Bravo (Fundación Canaria Telesforo Bravo-Juan Coello – Tenerife, SPAIN; direccion@fundaciontele
Patrice Huet (La Cité du Volcan / SPL Réunion des Musées Régionaux - Reunion, FRANCE ; Patrice.huet.cdv@muse
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