Below we’ve listed details of a session that will be of interest to many of you at the EGU General Assembly, in Vienna, next spring. Many postgraduates and academic staff from across the UK and beyond attend this event, sharing details of the latest research they have been doing. The convenors of this session, including GfGD Director Joel Gill and GfGD Leeds Ambassador Ekbal Hussain, are keen to gather those interested in natural hazards to share experiences relating to education, communications and policy/practice. If you’re planning on attending EGU, why not submit an extra poster and get involved in what will be a lively and interactive session.
“Natural Hazards Education, Communications and Science-Policy-Practice Interface”
Conveners: Bruce D. Malamud, Joel Gill, Ekbal Hussain, Marie Charrière, Solmaz Mohadjer, Faith Taylor
Teaching Landslide Dynamics in Ladakh (India).
Credit: Geology for Global Development
This session addresses how we communicate and educate students, the public, policy makers, and practitioners about natural hazards. Although we welcome all contributions in this topic, we are particularly interested in:
- Approaches that address barriers and bridges in the science-policy-practice interface that hinder and support application of hazard-related knowledge.
- The communication (by scientists, engineers, the press, civil protection, government agencies, and a multitude other agencies) of natural hazards risk and uncertainty to the general public and other government officials.
- The teaching of natural hazards to university and lower-level students, using innovative techniques to promote understanding.
We also are specifically interested in distance education courses on themes related to hazard and risk assessment, and disaster risk management, and in programmes for training in developing countries. We therefore solicit abstracts, particularly dynamic posters, on all aspects of how we communicate and educate the better understanding of natural hazards.
The ability to have graphic screens at poster sessions is available (if pre-ordered through EGU), as is a location to put hands-on demonstrations or other material. We are initially planning poster (or a PICO) session, combined with opportunity for those who want to orally present to the rest of the group, and ample time for discussion.
Details and Abstract Submission: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/session/18749
