3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 From: "HORWELL, CLAIRE J." <claire.horwell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Dear all, You are warmly invited to submit an abstract to session S4.1 for Cities on Volcanoes 11: *Legal and ethical issues surrounding the provision of knowledge and advice during periods of volcanic unrest by scientists and agencies* *Abstract:* During periods of volcanic unrest, scientists and agencies (governmental and other) are expected to provide timely, trusted services that are risk-relevant,and comprehensible. These include scientific agencies, but also others e.g. health, civil protection or environment. These services are critical to the risk governance decisions required to promote the safety and well-being of vulnerable communities. Recently, these services have broadened from the provision of timely science-based knowledge (facts and data) to include advice about hazard/risk mitigation. Risk governance measures are heavily scrutinised. Recent court cases have shown that service providers will be held accountable if it is thought that they have been negligent (e.g. providing advice that is inaccurate, incomplete or unsupported by objective evidence). Service providers are likely to face detailed public scrutiny on the ethics of their decision making and legal and other consequences. A blurred boundary exists between the scientific characterisation of natural hazards and the political exercise of managing their societal risks. There are complex legal and ethical issues arising from the formulation and use of authoritative quality assurance standards for the processes and outputs of all stages of the risk-governance cycle. *This session invites papers that:* · examine legal/ethical issues or case studies for periods of volcanic unrest or equivalent natural hazards that provide lessons for the volcanic context; · present examples of the practical challenges of producing and communicating contextualised science-based knowledge; · evaluate the scrutiny risks (including legal liability) faced by service providers and how they can be mitigated; and · analyse existing governance frameworks/methodologies/quality assurance standards and recommendations for reform. *Convenors:* Claire Horwell â?? Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, UK Fiona McDonald - Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Richard Bretton - Cabot Institute for the Environment, University of Bristol, UK Submit your abstracts here: https://pcoconvin.eventsair.com/volcanoes11/abstracts by 25 January 2020. 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 ============================================================== Volcano Listserv is a collaborative venture among Arizona State University (ASU), Portland State University (PSU), the Global Volcanism Program (GVP) of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, and the International Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI). ASU - http://www.asu.edu/ PSU - http://pdx.edu/ GVP - http://www.volcano.si.edu/ IAVCEI - https://www.iavceivolcano.org/ To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxx. To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxx. Please do not send attachments. ============================================================== ------------------------------
