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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

11. Ethics, Policy, and Risk Assessment of the Cotopaxi Volcanic Crisis in Ecuador—Vulnerable Society Versus Unprepared Volcanic Monitoring Staff and Authorities

Authors : Theofilos Toulkeridis, Ana Jacome, Fernando Mato

Published in: Geoethics In Latin America

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Risk monitoring, knowledge management, and communication skills play a key role in managing volcanic crises, and being the scientific knowledge, the transversal Achilles heel in risk perception, decision-making, general politics, and the main generator of confidence in population. During this study, we analyzed the ethical behavior of the policy in the risk management carried out in Ecuador on the Cotopaxi volcano after its most recent reactivation in 2015. This analysis clearly demonstrates evidence of both an inadequate risk assessment and an inadequate transmission of information to the authorities and afterward to the population, which led to loss of lives and a complicated social and economic situation throughout the affected zones. As a result of this study, important lessons were extracted and are provided here with the aim to prepare technicians and authorities to manage future volcanic crises in a more adequate form.

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Metadata
Title
Ethics, Policy, and Risk Assessment of the Cotopaxi Volcanic Crisis in Ecuador—Vulnerable Society Versus Unprepared Volcanic Monitoring Staff and Authorities
Authors
Theofilos Toulkeridis
Ana Jacome
Fernando Mato
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Geoethics In Latin America

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-75372-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-75373-7

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75373-7_11