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Volcanic Unrest

From Science to Society

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  • © 2019

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Overview

  • Book exclusively dedicated to volcanic unrest
  • Multi-disciplinary - drawing from the physical, legal and social sciences
  • Bridges the gap between the sciences and decision-making

Part of the book series: Advances in Volcanology (VOLCAN)

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About this book

This open access book summarizes the findings of the VUELCO project, a multi-disciplinary and cross-boundary research funded by the European Commission's 7th framework program. It comprises four broad topics:

1.     The global significance of volcanic unrest

2.     Geophysical and geochemical fingerprints of unrest and precursory activity

3.     Magma dynamics leading to unrest phenomena

4.     Bridging the gap between science and decision-making

Volcanic unrest is a complex multi-hazard phenomenon. The fact that unrest may, or may not lead to an imminent eruption contributes significant uncertainty to short-term volcanic hazard and risk assessment.  Although it is reasonable to assume that all eruptions are associated with precursory activity of some sort, the understanding of the causative links between subsurface processes, resulting unrest signals and imminent eruption is incomplete. When a volcano evolves from dormancy into a phase of unrest, important scientific, political and social questions need to be addressed. This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers of volcanic phenomena, professionals in volcanic hazard and risk assessment, observatory personnel, as well as emergency managers who wish to learn about the complex nature of volcanic unrest and how to utilize new findings to deal with unrest phenomena at scientific and emergency managing levels.

This book is open access under a CC BY license.

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, UK

    Joachim Gottsmann

  • Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Jürgen Neuberg

  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Bettina Scheu

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