Advancing Volcanic Research and Monitoring into Reducing Risk:
In short: Exploring the latest scientific insights, monitoring techniques, and collaborative efforts for tracking volcanic activity, managing risks, and addressing challenges in resource-limited settings
- Recent findings and monitoring approaches of the magmatic systems and dynamics of the Eastern Caribbean volcanic-arc, and other andesitic volcanoes
- Volcanoes with prolonged low-activity, monitoring, interpretation and challenges for risk management and decision-makers.
- Geothermal systems at andesitic volcanoes: research and monitoring, differentiating magmatic vs geothermal signals.
- State of the Art methodologies and technologies for volcano monitoring and hazard/risk management in limited-resources countries.
- Regional and international co-operations and collaborations during crisis: contribution from academic and non-academic institutions to local monitoring and risk management.
- Ethics in scientific projects involving quantitative and qualitative data from observatories, practitioners and communities: data license/ownership and openaccess publication systems, parachute science, social license, engagement policies, etc.
Managing Short and Prolonged Volcanic Risks in a Complex World:
In short: Strategies for managing volcanic hazards in a multi-risk environment, from early-warning systems to community engagement, and lessons learned from disaster response and recovery.
- Managing volcanic risks in a multi-hazard context.
- Infrastructures, tools and strategies for risk awareness and reduction: early-warning systems, developing risk maps with risk managers, outreach and community engagement, etc.
- Preparedness and coordination of government and non-government risk management stakeholders – successes and lessons learnt from dealing with disasters in Montserrat, the Caribbean region and beyond.
- Forced displacements and their short- and long-term impacts: management of evacuations, and of forced emigrations/forced settlements, minimizing trauma and ensuring community support, long-term impacts of demographic changes.
- Living sustainably with “controlled-access”/”Red” zones: definition, legislation, management, risk mitigation when used.
- Adapting hazards & risk communication to advances in Information & communication cultures and technologies.
Living with Volcanic Risk: Community, Governance, Building a Sustainable Future after going through a Disaster:
In short: The role of governance, community involvement, and local knowledge in recovery efforts, risk mitigation, and leveraging volcanic landscapes for sustainable development and economic growth.
- Governance and policy-making or change for reducing vulnerabilities, for disaster management and recovery in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
- Roles & Innovations of “non-risk professionals” (community members, groups and businesses, NGOs, etc.) during and after a crisis into monitoring and risk mitigation, financial and in-kind supports, recovery, and towards building a sustainable future.
- Local knowledge of living with a volcano and other geological hazards, geo-heritage: integrated knowledge of the (volcanic) land and risk management into culture, traditions, integration of new knowledge (e.g. during crisis or with changing hazards), preservation and transmission of individual and community document, oral stories, etc. to next generation.
- Volcanoes as resources for local economic growth: geo-tourism/geoparks, geothermal energy, education and professional development of local population (in volcanology or other fields), etc.
- Short & Long-term impacts of eruptions and other natural hazards on the population physical and mental health: health issues & psychological trauma, government and non-government coping supports & strategies, etc.
- Press, Radio and film/video-contents: informing and connecting the community (local and diaspora), scientific communication and miscommunication, impacts of dramatic distortion on the community, ethics of recording testimonials and filming during a volcanic crisis.