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Communicating geology: Time, Uncertainty and Risk

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This page is part of the Geology for Society publication.

Geological issues are increasingly prominent in the everyday lives of people across the UK – and professional geoscientists are having to learn to communicate their science better, to enable the wider population to participate in informed debate.

Events

Bryan Lovell Meeting 2016: Water, hazards and risk: Managing uncertainty in a changing world - Conference resources, Nov 2016
Communicating Contested Geoscience: New Strategies for Public Engagement - 2014 conference
Global Volcanic Risk - Professor Steve Sparks

Case Studies:

L'Aquila Earthquake, 6 April 2009

Prophet without honour - Geoscientist Article, April 2009 on an Italian geologist reported to police for scaremongering after predicting the L’Aquila earthquake

Nature: Scientists on trial: At fault? - Article, September 2011

Nature: Shock and law - Article, October 2012

Volcanoes

A restless volcano and restive volcanologists: Uncertain judgements and uncertain risks - Video - William Smith Medal Recipient, Willy Aspinall

Geoscientist Magazine

First Bryan Lovell Meeting held - Feb 2017
Red for Danger: On the importance of design choices in how volcanic hazard maps communicate risk - April 2015
Crowdsourcing Science: The Potential of ‘Citizen Science’ for Geology - August 2014
Geoengineering: An Experiment too Far? Peter Hurrell reports on a public dialogue investigating how members of the public formed their ideas about the controversial idea of mitigating climate change by direct intervention. - January 2011
Bang goes Communication: Sarah Day discovers that when communicating “climate change” science, nothing should be taken for granted - May 2010

GSL Blog

Adventures in cross border geology: talking to your neighbours - Ben Kilhams, Oct 2016

Aimed at policy and decision-makers as well as the wider public, 'Geology for Society' outlines the importance of geology to our society.

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