Education and information as tool for risk mitigation: the italian experience in neapolitan area and the eolian visitors centres, (sicily)

Abstract

The natural risks assessment have the further step in researching how to mitigate these risks, give to education and outreach activities an important and peculiar role. Volcanoes are one of the people favourite scientific issue, and the request of information about them directed to researches involved in volcano studies, are particularly frequent and pressing in active volcanic areas. Some examples from the Italian experience carried out by the major Italian research institute in two topic volcanic zones, can give a reference framework of what risk education have to be and how it needs to develop