Volcanoes and their social, cultural, and political context
Volcanes y su contexto social, cultural y político
Volcanes y su contexto social, cultural y político
Volcanoes and their social, cultural, and political context
301 Conviviendo con los volcanes. ¿Cuáles son sus principales preocupaciones? / Living with Volcanoes – what are your concerns?
Formato: Presentación de documental y discusión
Accepts abstracts: No
Conveners: Sharon Backhouse, Ben Ireland, José Marrero, Stavros Meletlidis
Contact: sharonbackhouse@geotenerife.com
Description:
The purpose of this session is to understand the concerns and perspectives on communication from people at risk from volcanic eruptions and is aimed specifically at local people.
The session will begin with a showing of “Lava Bombs: Truths Behind the Volcano”, a 45-minute documentary which dives deeply into issues of science communication during the 2021 La Palma eruption, giving a digestible, engaging and accessible introduction to the topics and issues that impacted local residents.
The (fully bilingual) convenor will then introduce a panel with those involved in the response to the La Palma eruption (scientists, emergency managers, journalists etc..), and build a rapport with the audience through further discussions of the issues and encouraging them to reflect on their views and questions in their local context, and then help them to frame questions to members of the panel. Instead of them “coming to be spoken to by the panel”, the aim is we support them to lead the discussion so the panel has an opportunity to address their concerns.
We have previous experience of holding many of these events across the Canary Islands, which have fostered really fascinating discussions. Often, major issues come to light that have not previously been thought about by the stakeholders, and the locals can hear the point of view of the stakeholders and have a right to reply. It helps to build a mutual understanding between community members and authorities, which in turn leads to improved trust in these authorities.
We have found that “faceless institutions” that “speak a different language” can create a barrier with the people – having an opportunity to speak face to face with those responsible helps to break down barriers and build trust and understanding.
302 Creating “volcano-ready” communities: communicating for resilience and response
Format: Presentations and panel
Accepts abstracts: Yes
Types of contributions: oral presentations and posters
Conveners: Angela Doherty, Beth Bartel, Ma. Mylene Martínez-Villegas, Wendy K. Stoval
Contact: angela.doherty@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
Description:
When it comes to volcanoes, Readiness is as important as Response. Our greatest tool in both is communication — whether online or in person. There is important work to do during both quiescence and crisis to promote awareness; provide timely and accurate information; and build trust and relationships with at-risk communities, decision makers, and emergency responders. In this session, we aim to share communication knowledge, experience, and, where possible, research results within the international volcanological community. Half of the session will be dedicated to oral presentations from practiced communicators. The second half will be an open forum discussion led by invited guests. Attendees should feel free to bring examples of effective ways to help create “volcano-ready” communities!
Submissions may explore, but are not limited to, the following topics:
• Raising awareness and building resilience in our communities, while avoiding sensationalism or warning fatigue during quiescence.
• Effective communication during a crisis, with limited resources. • Using social media as a tool to engage during quiescence and alert during crisis.
• Understanding our diverse communities and their different communication preferences and needs.
• Conveying complex topics in simple terms.
• Addressing misinformation without feeding the frenzy.
• Helping mainstream media to report on volcanic hazards more responsibly.
• Building partnerships for stronger communication.
• Evaluating effectiveness of communications efforts.
With a better understanding of our international community’s successes and challenges, we can both learn from and better support each other in a global media landscape. Perspectives from all sectors of volcano communication, including emergency response, academia, scientific agencies, and media, are welcome.
303 The Indigenous voice in volcanology: seeking pathways towards co-production of knowledge
Format: Presentations
Accepts abstracts: Yes
Types of contributions: oral presentations and posters
Conveners: Cheryl Cameeron, Jonathan Procter, Sylvia Tapuke, Jan Lindsay, Eliza Calder, Heather Wright, Alex Petzey, Carla Chun Quinillo, Kelvin Tapuke
Contact: J.N.Procter@massey.ac.nz
Description:
Indigenous peoples and their traditional ecological knowledge encode vast amounts of historical and holistic information, deeply rooted in the lands they live on and the languages they carry. This knowledge, and its accompanying shifts in research paradigms, and questions asked, can yield great benefit to volcanology. Fundamental to co-production of knowledge is authentic and durable relationship-building.
Recognizing that true co-production of knowledge is a goal not often fully achieved, this session invites people to share their experience in attempts of co-production of knowledge and relationship-building: successes and challenges for understanding, integrating, and valuing Indigenous voices and knowledge in volcano science. Submissions are especially encouraged from Indigenous perspectives, including scientists, community leaders, and elders.
304 Towards ethnovolcanology in Latin America: Plural perceptions of volcanism, place attachment and disaster risk in ancestral volcanic lands [español]
Format: Presentations
Accepting abstracts: Yes
Types of contributions: oral presentations and posters
Conveners: Francisca Vergara-Pinto, Liliana Troncoso, John J. Sánchez, Carmen Solana, Lucía de Abrantes
Contact: franverggara@gmail.com
Description:
Understanding the relationship between multiple perceptions of volcanoes of different cultural groups and senses of attachment to their ancestral volcanic lands is crucial for assessing disaster risk reduction contextualised spatially, historically, and territorially. An ethnovolcanological perspective allows us to understand that active volcanism is an essential element in shaping livelihoods, cultural landscapes, belief systems and social fabrics. Particularly, Andean and Caribbean cultures have been related to volcanoes in Latin America since ancient times, being shaped by the manifestations of geological forces and, in turn, being modellers of the volcanic environments, configuring socio-ecological systems marked by prolonged equilibriums, catastrophic disruptions and recurrent post-eruption returns to the volcano. Thus, volcanoes have been rooted in enduring identities throughout history framed by colonisation, independence, and the current need to prevent disasters from occurring. From there, populations have acquired situated volcanological knowledge that needs to be rescued, preserved and respected and then brought into dialogue with specialised knowledge.
This bilingual session (English and Spanish) invites researchers, community leaders, and representatives of civil society interested in the following topics:
1) Territory (attachment to volcanic places; volcanic livelihoods; risk perceptions; the role of culture in post-disaster recovery; disaster memory; imaginaries of future eruptions),
2) Relationality (local/indigenous knowledge and wisdom; intellectual property and loss of community knowledge; worldviews and perceptions on the human-volcano coexistence; volcanism in art and crafts; relational ontologies; rites at volcanoes and their expression as risk reduction practices; intercultural risk communication),
3) History (eruptions in Latin American history and archaeology; community risk management; stakeholders gaps; humanitarian responses to volcanic crises and disasters).
Dialogue on these themes will allow a deeper understanding of the tension between place attachment and disaster risk in environments laden with values, identities, memories, and projections that need to be discussed in debates on both disaster risk in ancestral volcanic lands and ancestral knowledge at risk.
304 Hacia una etnovolcanología en Latinoamérica: Percepciones plurales del volcanismo, apego al lugar y riesgo de desastres en tierras volcánicas ancestrales
Formato: Presentaciones
Aceptará resúmenes: Sí
Tipos de contribuciones: presentaciones orales y posters
Convocantes: Francisca Vergara-Pinto, Liliana Troncoso, John J. Sánchez, Carmen Solana, Lucía de Abrantes
Contacto: franverggara@gmail.com
Descripción:
Comprender la relación entre las múltiples percepciones de los volcanes de diferentes grupos culturales y los sentidos de arraigo a sus tierras volcánicas ancestrales es crucial para evaluar la reducción del riesgo de desastres contextualizada espacial, histórica y territorialmente. Una perspectiva etnovolcanológica nos permite comprender que el volcanismo activo es un elemento esencial en la configuración de los medios de vida, los paisajes culturales, los sistemas de creencias y los tejidos sociales. En particular, las culturas andinas y caribeñas han estado relacionadas con los volcanes en América Latina desde la antigüedad, siendo moldeadas por las manifestaciones de fuerzas geológicas y, a su vez, siendo modeladoras de los ambientes volcánicos, configurando sistemas socioecológicos marcados por prolongados equilibrios, perturbaciones catastróficas y recurrentes retornos post-erupción al volcán. Así, los volcanes se han arraigado en identidades perdurables a lo largo de una historia enmarcada por la colonización, la independencia y la necesidad actual de evitar la ocurrencia de desastres. A partir de allí, las poblaciones han adquirido conocimientos volcanológicos situados que es necesario rescatar, preservar y respetar para luego ponerlos en diálogo con conocimientos especializados.
Esta sesión bilingüe (inglés y español) invita a investigadores, líderes comunitarios y representantes de la sociedad civil interesados en los siguientes temas:
1) Territorio (apego a lugares volcánicos; medios de vida volcánicos; percepciones del riesgo; el rol de la cultura en la recuperación post-desastre; memoria de desastres; imaginarios de futuras erupciones),
2) Relacionalidad (conocimiento y sabiduría local/indígena; propiedad intelectual y pérdida de conocimiento comunitario; cosmovisiones y percepciones sobre la coexistencia humano-volcán; volcanismo en el arte y la artesanía; ontologías relacionales; ritos en los volcanes y su expresión como prácticas de reducción del riesgo; comunicación intercultural del riesgo),
3) Historia (erupciones en la historia y arqueología latinoamericana; gestión comunitaria de riesgos; brechas entre actores; respuestas humanitarias a crisis volcánicas y desastres).
El diálogo sobre estos temas permitirá una comprensión más profunda de la tensión entre el apego al lugar y el riesgo de desastres en entornos cargados de valores, identidades, memorias y proyecciones que deben discutirse en los debates tanto sobre el riesgo de desastres en las tierras volcánicas ancestrales como en el conocimiento ancestral que está en riesgo.
305 Relationships with the Red Zone
Format: Presentations and panel
Accepts abstracts: Yes
Types of contributions: oral presentations and posters
Conveners: Eliza Calder, Monique Johnson, Ana Cabrera, Teresa Armijos, Thomas McKean
Contact: Eliza.calder@ed.ac.uk
Description:
We invite presentations related to the realities and complexities of living within, or reinhabiting, Red Zones, “exclusion zones”, or areas deemed by state authorities as being “uninhabitable” around volcanoes. While these demarcated spaces are no-go areas in geological or disaster risk management terms, the lived reality and immediate needs of those that sometimes inhabit, or inhabited, them is more complex. In many cases, and for diverse reasons, people need to continue to live and/or work in these spaces. Common drivers for this are the sustainability of livelihoods, no viable alternative living spaces provided by governments or municipalities, and lack of resources. In other cases, people leave for periods of time, returning when immediate danger is past, and/or life elsewhere becomes difficult. Some live a mobile life between their old home and their new, negotiating a complex re-imagining of “home”, drawing on the resources of both spaces to piece together new lives. In some places communities are condemned to an increasingly marginal existence with no provision of water, electricity, or schools by a state which does not support their existence. In turn, such conditions can increase risk further. In other cases there are blatant double standards in which communities condemned to little or no infrastructural support have to witness high-profile infrastructure like roads and bridges being restored or constructed because these places are economically important thoroughfares. Macro-scale economic imperatives often contradict and take precedence over DRR and basic human rights at the local level. We invite presentations related to on-the-ground knowledge of conditions, spaces, and places disturbed, destroyed, or at risk from environmental impact as well as the community’s history, cultural and livelihood needs and ways of life. We aim to discuss the complex and often contradictory realities of the red zone. We will conclude the talk session with a panel discussion.
306 Communities on the move: understanding resettlement processes after a disaster [español]
Format: Presentations and panel
Accepts abstracts: Yes
Types of contributions: oral presentations and posters
Conveners: Ana Cabrera Pacheco, Carlos Alfredo Puac, Lisa MacKenzie
Contact: ana.cabrera-pacheco@ed.ac.uk
Description:
After disasters, some affected communities are resettled in new places. This can happen because their original homes were destroyed or the original location is deemed an unsafe place to live. Sometimes communities move together, while for others, resettlement is a piecemeal process that disperses them and fractures social cohesion. The conditions of the resettlement processes are often determined by those leading infrastructure development, but community agency, advocacy and forms of resistance are important for communities to secure better living conditions for themselves. For this session, we call for presentations on all aspects of resettlement processes. We are interested in questioning how resettlements can facilitate appropriate recovery conditions for communities in the short- and long-term, and what it means for these communities to “start over again”. We invite contributions that discuss the social, cultural, environmental and political contexts and specificities, which aid or hinder these processes, and the complex challenges that both communities and other decision-makers face in these situations. We welcome presentations on the lessons learnt in resettlement processes from around the world, and from different temporalities – from emergency shelters (which often extend in time) to permanent resettlements. For some communities, relocation means having better access to services and infrastructure, often in urban areas, but also being displaced from their land, livelihoods and culture. We want to learn from processes that accounted for these aspects, and from those that only provided housing solutions. How are these processes contributing (or not) to community wellbeing? We invite perspectives from grassroots initiatives as well as from government, international cooperation, and civil society organisations’ projects, to ask how they might inform each other. Finally, we welcome contributions on cases of communities that have returned to the areas at risk and of those who move between safe and unsafe spaces in their everyday life.
306 Comunidades en movimiento: Comprendiendo los procesos de reasentamiento después de un desastre
Formato: Presentations and panel
Aceptará resúmenes: sí
Tipos de contribuciones: presentaciones orales y posters
Convocantes: Ana Cabrera Pacheco, Carlos Alfredo Puac, Lisa MacKenzie
Contacto: ana.cabrera-pacheco@ed.ac.uk
Descripción:
Después de los desastres, algunas comunidades son reasentadas en nuevos lugares. Esto puede ocurrir porque sus hogares fueron destruidos o porque la ubicación original fue determinada como un lugar inseguro para vivir. Algunas comunidades se trasladan juntas, mientras que, para otras, el reasentamiento es un proceso fragmentado que les dispersa y fractura la cohesión social. Frecuentemente, las condiciones de los procesos de reasentamiento son determinadas por aquellos que lideran el desarrollo de la infraestructura. Sin embargo, la voluntad, el apoyo y la resistencia comunitaria son importantes para que las comunidades aseguren mejores condiciones de vida para si mismas.
Para esta sesión, hacemos un llamado para presentaciones sobre todos los aspectos del proceso de reasentamiento. Nuestro interés se sitúa en cuestionar cómo los reasentamientos pueden facilitar condiciones de recuperación apropiadas para las comunidades en el corto y en el largo plazo, y qué significa para estas comunidades el “empezar de nuevo”. Invitamos a presentar contribuciones que discutan los contextos y las especificidades sociales, culturales, medioambientales y políticas que ayudan o dificultan estos procesos, y los complejos desafíos que tanto las comunidades como otras personas tomadoras de decisiones enfrentan en estas situaciones. Damos la bienvenida a presentaciones sobre las lecciones aprendidas en procesos de reasentamiento alrededor del mundo, y de temporalidades diversas – desde los albergues de emergencia (que frecuentemente se extienden en el tiempo) hasta los reasentamientos permanentes. Para algunas comunidades, la reubicación significa tener un mejor acceso a servicios e infraestructura, usualmente en áreas urbanas, pero también significa el ser desplazadas de su tierra, medios de vida y cultura. Queremos aprender sobre los procesos que dan cuenta de estos aspectos, y de aquellos que solo proveyeron soluciones de vivienda. ¿Cómo están contribuyendo (o no) estos procesos al bienestar comunitario? Invitamos perspectivas de las iniciativas comunitarias, así como de proyectos gubernamentales, de la cooperación internacional y las organizaciones civiles, para preguntarnos cómo podrían retroalimentarse. Finalmente, damos la bienvenida a aportaciones sobre casos donde las comunidades han retornado a las áreas en riesgo y donde las comunidades se mueven entre espacios seguros e inseguros en su vida diaria.
307 Women on and around volcanoes: Care in the community
Format: Round table discussion
Accepts abstracts: No
Conveners: Cristina Sala Valdés, Amy Donovan, Norma Beltrán, Teresa Armijos, Eliza Calder, Jenni Barclay, Jan Lindsay
Contact: C.Sala-valdes@uea.ac.uk
Description:
This session will focus particularly on the role(s) and experiences of women working on applied aspects of volcanic risk – whether within the academy or beyond it. We seek to explore feminist approaches to understanding volcano-human relationships, paying attention to the experiences, identities and connections within those relationships, exploring how the stresses and responsibility associated with a territory, livelihood and/or community at risk leaves an imprint in the body. At the same time, we aim to unfold situated concepts such as resistance, recovery and power. All of the latter includes the practice of an ‘ethic of care’ in how we work with communities and with each other.
308 Imaginaries, perceptions and narratives of living in volcanic environments
Format: Presentations and discussion
Accepts abstracts: Yes
Types of contributions: oral presentations, lightning talks and posters
Conveners: Julie Morin, Jenni Barclay, Karen Pascal
Contact: jmm266@cam.ac.uk
Description:
A wide range of imaginaries, perceptions and narratives shape (and are shaped by) the way individuals and communities live and interact with volcanic environments. Understanding how these emerge, are constructed, transmitted, transformed, or even disappear, is fundamental to a holistic and nuanced understanding of volcanic environments. This understanding is particularly important when considering sustainable volcanic risk reduction objectives and the success of volcanic crisis response. In this session, we aim to explore:
– The different ways in which people imagine and represent volcanic environments.
– How imaginaries shape perceptions of both volcanic environments and their associated hazards and risk.
– How historical and contemporary narratives shape the ways in which people understand and experience living in volcanic environments.
– How imaginaries, perceptions, and narratives influence the strategies that people develop to reduce or manage risk.
– The roles and approaches that research and disaster risk reduction projects (should) have in addressing imaginaries and narratives.
– The implications for future research and practice.
We welcome contributions from researchers of all disciplines, practitioners and community members attending the conference. They should demonstrate the practical benefit of including work on imaginaries and narratives into research on volcanic risk and more broadly into disaster risk reduction project.
Contributions are accepted in two ways: (1) lightning demonstrations or talks that showcase work, films or pieces that demonstrate the use of imaginaries and narratives in volcano research, and (2) classic research papers focusing on academic analysis (conceptual, methodological or case study based) of the ideas or benefits of this approach. The session will conclude with a 20-minute discussion in which both styles of presenters will reflect on these contributions.
309 Facts, Faith and Function: Exploring the role of spirituality and faith-based organisations in volcanic risk communication and management [español]
Format: Round table discussion
Accepts abstracts: No
Conveners: Omari Graham, Stacey Edwards, Erouscilla Joseph, Anna Hicks, Cecilia Reed
Contact: omari.graham@sta.uwi.edu
Description:
Volcanic regions worldwide, particularly those in the global south, are heavily influenced by religion in their social construction of disasters and risk.
The views of risk management practitioners on the impact of religiosity on a society’s ability to manage risk can vary quite widely. In some quarters faith in the supernatural is viewed as counterproductive, predisposing persons to fatalism and a low perception of risk among adherents to certain faiths. However, recent research and practice have demonstrated the potential benefit of leveraging religious faith in disaster risk reduction and response efforts.
This round table discussion aims to provide a forum for emergency managers, science communicators, observatory scientists, researchers and religious leaders to exchange experiences, techniques and approaches to managing volcanic crises in religious societies. The coveners aim to gather perspectives from a range of belief systems, including indigenous beliefs, Eastern religions and Judeo-Christian/Islamic faiths, to inform improved risk management practice in as many volcanic regions as possible. Additionally, the session will dedicate some time to discussing the role of faith-based organisations in communicating risk, providing psychosocial support and mobilising resources during the response phase of crises. The proposed session recognises the role of faith in the daily lives of many people and highlights its importance as a consideration in a holistic approach to risk management. The session seeks to provide a safe and constructive space to discuss what can be a challenging and sensitive topic.
309 Hechos, creencias y funciones: Explorando el papel de la espiritualidad y las organizaciones basadas en las creencias, en la comunicación y en la gestión del riesgo volcánico.
Formato: Mesa redonda
Acceptará resúmenes: No
Convocantes: Omari Graham, Stacey Edwards, Erouscilla Joseph, Anna Hicks, Cecilia Reed
Contacto: omari.graham@sta.uwi.edu
Descripción:
Las regiones volcánicas de todo el mundo, particularmente las ubicadas en el sur del globo terráqueo, están fuertemente influenciadas por la religión en la construcción social de riesgos y desastres.
Las opiniones de los profesionales en gestión de riesgos sobre el impacto de la religiosidad y la capacidad de una sociedad para gestionar el riesgo pueden variar bastante. En algunos sectores, la fe en lo sobrenatural, se considera contraproducente ya que predispone a las personas al fatalismo y a una baja percepción del riesgo inminente entre los seguidores de ciertas religiones. Sin embargo, investigaciones y prácticas recientes han demostrado el beneficio potencial de las creencias religiosas y el aprovechamiento de la fe para avanzar en los esfuerzos de reducción y respuesta ante los desastres naturales.
Esta mesa de trabajo tiene como objetivo proporcionar un foro para administradores de emergencias, comunicadores científicos, científicos de observatorios, investigadores y líderes religiosos para intercambiar experiencias, técnicas y enfoques para el manejo de riegos volcánicos en sociedades religiosas.
Los convocantes tienen como objetivo recopilar perspectivas de una variedad de sistemas de creencias, incluidas las creencias indígenas, las religiones orientales y las religiones judeo-cristiana/islámica, para dar a conocer prácticas mejoradas de gestión de riesgos a tantas regiones volcánicas como sea posible. Además, la sesión dedicará algún tiempo a discutir el papel de las organizaciones religiosas en la comunicación de riesgos, la prestación de apoyo psicosocial y la movilización de recursos durante la fase de respuesta a las crisis. La sesión propuesta reconoce el papel de la fe en la vida cotidiana de muchas personas y destaca su importancia como consideración en un enfoque holístico de la gestión de riesgos. La sesión busca brindar un espacio seguro y constructivo para discutir lo que puede ser un tema desafiante y delicado.
310 Good practices and challenges in interdisciplinary working in volcano sciences
Format: Presentations and round table discussion
Accepts abstracts: Yes
Types of contributions: Lightning talks and posters
Conveners: Julie Morin, Jenni Barclay, David Damby, Amy Donovan, Nelida Manrique
Contact: jmm266@cam.ac.uk
Description:
It is widely recognized that understanding volcanic processes and mitigating their impacts on society requires interdisciplinary collaboration. However, effective collaboration presents challenges, particularly because volcanic science involves a wide range of disciplines from the physical and social sciences. This session aims to explore the importance, good practices and challenges of collaboration across disciplines on volcanic environments.
We propose a combination of lightnings talks and a roundtable discussion that will summarize the various lightnings talks and open up discussion on broader or more specific aspects of interdisciplinary collaboration, including: the importance, benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary work, design of collaborative research projects (identification of shared research questions and terminology, common goals, definition of roles and responsibilities), effective communication between disciplines, potential issues linked with disciplinary extractivism, awareness of different working temporalities between disciplines, integration and sharing of data, potential disagreements related to the internal functioning of each discipline, challenge of finding interdisciplinary funding opportunities, frameworks to develop effective interdisciplinary research, etc.
We welcome communications from volcano scientists from any discipline willing to share their insights and experiences on the successes, challenges or failures of establishing and maintaining interdisciplinary collaborations.
311 Making the magic happen: methods and case studies for interdisciplinary knowledge exchange in volcanic risk [español]
Format: Presentations, panel and discussion
Accepts abstracts: Yes
Types of contributions: oral presentations and posters
Conveners: Teresa Armijos Burneo, Monique Johnson, Jenni Barclay, Jeremy Phillips, Diego Sapalu, Eliza Calder, Nélida Manrique
Contact: t.armijos@ed.ac.uk
Description:
This session invites presentations from a variety of research projects or practice communities who have developed or implemented methodologies that support dialogues of knowledges between disciplines and beyond academia to understand and reduce volcanic risk. Finding ways to prevent disasters in the future while also learning from past experiences requires an understanding of the intersection between the social, environmental and cultural factors that define volcanic hazards and risk. This, in turn, requires interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialogues. However, epistemological and cultural differences between different types of knowledge and disciplines pose important challenges for successful dialogue to take place. Although there are always differences in methodologies and approaches between disciplines, deeper structural differences, including hierarchies attached to some forms of knowledge, can prevent genuine and respectful exchanges taking place. This can stifle the creation of new knowledge for disaster risk reduction.
In recent years, various projects and initiatives have incentivised exchange and dialogues between different groups of people, disciplines and practice communities. However, there is a need to share examples on how to do it in practice. This session therefore aims to explore methods and approaches that enhance knowledge co-creation and transcend methodological and epistemological differences between different actors, disciplines and groups of people to reduce volcanic disaster risk. We seek to invite presentations with a strong empirical component to discuss methodologies to co-produce knowledge around volcanic risk (be it hazard-related, policy, cultural, or social) while also reflecting on the challenges of doing this type of work.
Presentations that discuss a wide variety of topics across different sectors, and stem from diverse academic and other traditions are encouraged. These might include but are not restricted to: participatory methodologies, citizen-science, instruments, data production through the use of social cartography and arts-based methods.
311 Haciendo magia: métodos y estudios de casos para el intercambio interdisciplinario de conocimientos sobre riesgo volcánico
Formato: Presentaciones, panel y discusión
Aceptará resúmenes: Sí
Tipos de contribuciones: presentaciones orales y pósters
Conveners: Teresa Armijos Burneo, Monique Johnson, Jenni Barclay, Jeremy Phillips, Diego Sapalu, Eliza Calder, Nélida Manrique
Contacto: t.armijos@ed.ac.uk
Description:
Esta sesión invita presentaciones de proyectos de investigación o comunidades de práctica que han desarrollado o implementado metodologías que apoyan el diálogo de conocimientos entre disciplinas más allá del ámbito académico para comprender y reducir el riesgo volcánico. Encontrar formas de prevenir desastres en el futuro y al mismo tiempo aprender de experiencias pasadas requiere una comprensión de la intersección entre los factores sociales, ambientales y culturales que definen los peligros y riesgos volcánicos. Esto, a su vez, requiere diálogos interdisciplinarios y transdisciplinarios. Sin embargo, las diferencias epistemológicas y culturales entre diferentes tipos de conocimiento y disciplinas plantean desafíos importantes para que se produzca un diálogo exitoso. Aunque siempre existen diferencias en metodologías y enfoques entre disciplinas, diferencias estructurales más profundas, incluidas las jerarquías vinculadas a algunas formas de conocimiento, pueden impedir que se produzcan intercambios genuinos y respetuosos. Esto puede frenar la creación de nuevos conocimientos para la reducción del riesgo de desastres.
En los últimos años, diversos proyectos e iniciativas han incentivado el intercambio y el diálogo entre diferentes grupos de personas, disciplinas y comunidades de práctica. Sin embargo, es necesario compartir ejemplos sobre cómo hacerlo en la práctica. Por lo tanto, esta sesión tiene como objetivo explorar métodos y enfoques que mejoren la cocreación de conocimientos y trasciendan las diferencias metodológicas y epistemológicas entre diferentes actores, disciplinas y grupos de personas para reducir el riesgo de desastres volcánicos. Invitamos presentaciones con un fuerte componente empírico para discutir metodologías de co-produccion de conocimiento sobre el riesgo volcánico (ya sea relacionado con peligros, políticas, culturales o sociales) y al mismo tiempo reflexionar sobre los desafíos que significa realizar este tipo de trabajo.
Estamos abiertos a una amplia variedad de temas en diferentes sectores y que provienen de diversas tradiciones académicas y de otro tipo. Estos pueden incluir, entre otros: metodologías participativas, ciencia ciudadana, instrumentos, producción de datos mediante el uso de cartografía social y métodos basados en las artes.
312 Social volcanology: Exploring the role of social science in support of volcano observatories and civil protection [español]
Format: Presentations and discussion
Accepts abstracts: Yes
Types of contributions: lightning talks and posters
Conveners: Jessica Ball, Beth Bartel, Sally Potter, Jenni Barclay
Contact: jlball@usgs.gov
Description:
Social science is increasingly being incorporated into volcano observatories, but there are still many opportunities to be explored on how to get the most value from the multidisciplinary collaborations. During quiescence, societal research can be conducted on aspects such as historical events, how science advice can be effectively communicated to meet user needs, and to understand risk perceptions and behavioural response of the public and stakeholders, amongst many other things. During unrest and eruptions, as well as recovery stages, social science expertise can be applied to help improve communications and advice on socio-economic impacts, and other societal aspects and needs.
This session will explore how social science has been embedded into or aligned with the needs of volcano observatories. Contributions will describe aspects relating to how multiple disciplines have been effectively integrated, how social science expertise was applied during a crisis and on what topics, research projects that supported the needs of the observatories and affected people, and challenges that have been faced. This will provide the platform to share experiences and recommendations to help grow the practice globally and better meet the needs of people living near volcanoes.
312 Vulcanología social: explorando el papel de las ciencias sociales en apoyo de los observatorios de volcanes y la protección civil
Formato: Presentations and discussion
Aceptará resúmenes: Yes
Tipos de contribuciones: charlas relámpago and posters
Convocantes: Jessica Ball, Beth Bartel, Sally Potter, Jenni Barclay
Contacto: jlball@usgs.gov
Descripción:
Las ciencias sociales se están incorporando cada vez más a los observatorios de volcanes, pero todavía hay muchas oportunidades por explorar sobre cómo obtener el máximo valor de las colaboraciones multidisciplinarias. Durante la inactividad, la investigación social se puede realizar sobre aspectos como eventos históricos, cómo se pueden comunicar de manera efectiva los consejos científicos para satisfacer las necesidades de los usuarios y comprender las percepciones de riesgo y la respuesta conductual del público y las partes interesadas, entre muchas otras cosas. Durante los disturbios y las erupciones, así como en las etapas de recuperación, la experiencia en ciencias sociales se puede aplicar para ayudar a mejorar las comunicaciones y el asesoramiento sobre los impactos socioeconómicos y otros aspectos y necesidades sociales.
Esta sesión explorará cómo las ciencias sociales se han integrado o alineado con las necesidades de los observatorios de volcanes. Las contribuciones describirán aspectos relacionados con la integración efectiva de múltiples disciplinas, cómo se aplicó la experiencia de las ciencias sociales durante una crisis y sobre qué temas, los proyectos de investigación que respaldaron las necesidades de los observatorios y las personas afectadas, y los desafíos que se han enfrentado. Esto proporcionará la plataforma para compartir experiencias y recomendaciones para ayudar a hacer crecer la práctica a nivel mundial y satisfacer mejor las necesidades de las personas que viven cerca de los volcanes.
313 From Communities to Calderas: historical reconstructions of volcanic eruptions and risk
Format: Presentations and group discussion
Accepts abstracts: Yes
Types of contributions: oral presentations and posters
Conveners: Jenni Barclay, Rodrigo Véliz Estrada, David Pyle
Contact: J.Barclay@uea.ac.uk
Description:
Historical accounts of volcanic eruptions contain multiple strands of data that not only can extend our knowledge of a volcano’s eruptive behaviour but provide insights into the social, cultural and political landscapes into which they erupt. This information can be used to improve response to future eruptions.
In this session we want to bring together scientists, historians and those interested in volcanic disaster risk reduction to explore these insights. We welcome contributions across a wide range of perspectives to ignite and explore the value that historical analyses bring to reducing volcanic risk. A range of foci are possible for presentations, from contributions that cover the impacts of individual eruptions (or non-eruptive events) to those that explore the history of monitoring and observation and long durée analyses that explore the ways in which communities interact with and make sense of eruptions, or how response is controlled by political and social events surrounding them. We particularly welcome contributions that seek to understand how these records can be used to reconstruct the responses and adaptations of communities that are less well represented in the written historical record, so encourage contributions that draw on oral histories, community histories and the archaeological record too.
Methodological reflections are also welcome in this session. We also welcome contributions that reflect on the extent to which the historical record is modified by the story that the transcriber or reteller wants us to hear. This session will be in a traditional presentation format but we propose that it will conclude with a half hour synthesis and discussion session involving all audience members.
314 La educación en ambientes volcánicos y riesgos, una necesidad impostergable
Formato: Mesa redonda y ponencias
Aceptará resúmenes: Sí
Tipos de contribuciones: presentaciones orales y posters
Convocantes: Silvia Guadalupe Ramos Hernández, Deysi O. Jerez
Contacto: silviaramosh@gmail.com
Descripción:
Esta sesión tiene como finalidad reunir a investigadores, académicos, profesores, capacitadores, y sociedad en general, para compartir experiencias y discutir sobre la importancia del abordaje educativo sobre el riesgo volcánico.
Una proporción muy alta de población en el mundo convive y se desarrolla en regiones volcánicas. Aproximadamente el 10% de la población del mundo —unos 500 millones de personas— vive en zonas donde están volcanes potencialmente activos. Otra proporción amplia de población vive junto a volcanes dormidos ó extintos, que en el pasado hicieron erupciones violentas.
Las regiones volcánicas de América Latina y el Caribe representan una región de alto riesgo volcánico. En el siglo XX, un 76% de las muertes causadas por erupciones volcánicas ocurrieron en estas regiones del planeta y en los últimos 10 años, casi la mitad de las erupciones más fuertes en el mundo tuvieron lugar en estas regiones.
Nuevas erupciones habrán en muchas regiones con vulcanismo activo, es sólo cuestión de tiempo. De ahí la necesidad impostergable de impulsar procesos desde la educación formal e informal sobre el riesgo volcánico y preparar las siguientes generaciones ante la posibilidad de la ocurrencia de nuevos sucesos. En volcanes que permanecen inactivos durante decenas o centenas de años, las comunidades próximas olvidan el peligro potencial de las erupciones, particularmente los niños y jóvenes que no vivieron los sucesos de las erupciones, y se pierde la oportunidad de recuperar la memoria histórica de lo ocurrido e incidir en el tema educativo.
Por tanto es impostergable la educación en volcanes, mejorar el conocimiento y percepciones ante la eventualidad de una crisis volcánica, fortalecer la vigilancia de éstos y generar una buena preparación antes de la crisis, a fin de reducir la vulnerabilidad y crear una mejor resiliencia comunitaria.
Comité organizador de programa:
Program Organising Committee:
Pablo Forte, Eliza Calder, Beatriz Cosenza-Muralles, Lizzette A. Rodríguez
cov12program@gmail.com
