mission is to prevent accidents and save human lives and valuables. Extensive groups of volunteers are always available, night and day, all year round.
The webpage Safetravel is run by ICE-SAR and is part of a bigger project in which a number of companies, public institutions and individuals combine their effort in order to reduce the risk of accidents in travelling and tourism in Iceland. ICE
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in travelling and tourism in Iceland.
Independent associations have an extensive role in prevention and rescue in Iceland. Thousands of volunteers dedicate themselves to work for the ICE-SAR rescue teams, for the accident prevention divisions and the youth sections. Their joint mission is to prevent accidents and save human lives and valuables. Extensive groups of volunteers are always available
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to volcanic eruptions must be made. An integrated risk assessment consists of an evaluation of potential hazard and the vulnerability of society, followed by an estimate of the corresponding risk and of feasible counter-measures in order to prevent accidents and minimise economic damage.
The work on a general risk assessment will be organized in accordance with the risk assessment framework
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niche-finding refers to the question of how to
introduce an informal participatory process into a
relatively rigid and strongly structured administrative
environment, and thus how to find a niche in a given
community. We consider a niche as a space that is
protected from the dominant regime and which
enables actors to develop and apply an innovative
management style without immediate or direct
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such as a general problem
awareness, awareness of the adverse environmental effects of
human actions (awareness of consequences), and belief in
that own actions could prevent those effects (ascription of
responsibility), activate a personal norm. In turn, personal
norm, experienced as a feeling of moral obligation to act, is
stipulated to create a willingness to act pro-environmentally.
Different
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or system dynamics
models, provide benets which go beyond the production of the model itself. The discussions and negotiations
between the groupmembers during themodel building, for example, improve the group’s shared understanding of the
management problem and its solutions. As such, participatory modelling can be a tool for supporting the type of social
learning currently being promoted for water
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or natural resources management but are
nonetheless relevant for a given decision to
be taken, such as land planning and public
participation regulations.
9. DA 9: Plan the decision stages and timelines.
Clarify to what extent and when to carry out
the stages of a decision-making process, such
as problem and values formulation, the
development of alternative solutions, the
development
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Eyjafjallajökull which erupted last year. The aim was to measure windblown resuspended ash from last year's eruption. Following the eruption at Grimsvotn it was on May 22nd moved to the Keflavik International Airport in Keflavík in order to detect ash if as was present in the atmosphere above the airport.
The IMO owns a weather radar which is situated on Miðnesheiði, close to the Keflavík
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