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Dear Melanie I am rather concerned at the inbuilt assumption of the survey that there are two groups to which warnings are delivered. Is this it? What about the way that information, including warnings, is conveyed to the people, the media and other ways to relate to society - for instance through community-based disaster management groups (very strong in the Philippines and elsewhere). It would be good to see a basic outline of the Volcanoscope project, to see if it may reassure many of us that might think that it is setting out to repeat some of the errors of DRR from the last 30 years (including my anxiety that this approach repeats the "top-down" and hierarchical failures of the past)... One of the lessons is that in many countries, emergency planners may be relatively ineffective in making use of warnings, and are often not embedded with people in the communities at risk. And that warnings have huge problems embedded in them when they fail to take account of people's attitudes to warnings, risk, evacuation, security etc. There is no point delivering warnings where people do not trust the emergency planning system, or do not want to hear the message that is being "delivered". Which social science areas are involved in the project? I hope there are anthropologists and development studies people... good wishes Terry Cannon Climate Change and Development Group, IDS Sussex. On 24 February 2011 10:36, Melanie Duncan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Invitation to improve the delivery of warnings during volcanic emergencies > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dear Colleagues > > We would like to invite you to join in our survey of how warnings of > volcanic eruptions are delivered to emergency planners. The survey should > take less than 10 minutes and would be of enormous value for helping us to > understand the needs of emergency planners and volcano scientists, and > whether these needs are being properly addressed by current emergency > procedures. The results will be presented online as part of the > international Project Volcanoscope, described below. > > If you can participate, please select one of the two following > questionnaires: > > (1) For volcano scientists, http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Volcanoscope_vs > > (2) For emergency planners, http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/volcanoscope_ep > > The questionnaires consists of multiple-choice answers, but also provide > the opportunity for making additional comments if you wish. > > We will begin processing replies to the questionnaires on Friday 18 March > 2011 and expect to have the first results posted online in May at > www.ucl.ac.uk/volcanoscope (which will be activated in March). > > Very many thanks for your help in the survey. > > > Best wishes > > > Melanie Duncan > Survey Co-ordinator, Project Volcanoscope > > > Project Volcanoscope is an international consortium of volcanologists and > social scientists, whose aim is to improve how warnings of volcanic > eruptions are delivered. Co-ordinated by University College London (UCL), it > will contribute to the UK programme on “Increasing Resilience to Natural > Hazards in Volcanic Regions” that is being funded by the Natural Environment > Research Council (www.nerc.ac.uk) and the Economic and Social Research > Council (www.esrc.ac.uk). Further details will soon be available at > www.ucl.ac.uk/volcanoscope. >