active countries. In Iceland alone, eruptions occur with an average frequency of
four years, and some of these eruptions occur at highly active, dangerous, and explosive
volcanoes and in close proximity to infrastructure. The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO)
monitors all natural hazards in Iceland and has the responsibility of issuing warnings and
forecasting impending dangers, when
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% with Ph.D. degree. The gender balance of the office is 65% male and 35%
female.The main purpose of IMO is to contribute
towards increased safety and efficiency in society by:
Monitoring,
analyzing, interpreting, informing, giving advice and counsel, providing
warnings and forecasts and, where possible, predicting natural processes and
natural hazards;issuing public and aviation alerts
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through tomodel construction and use. Its popularity in natural resource management research is evidence, to someextent, of an acceptance of Haag and Kaupenjohann’s (2001) call for greater recognition of the difference
between modelling for scientic research purposes and for supporting policy- and decision-making, the latter
requiring, they claim, stakeholder participation.
Its popularity is driven
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