Table 1 Four quality assurance standards for the processes of contextualising volcanic hazard assessments
From: Hazard communication by volcanologists: part 2 - quality standards for volcanic hazard assessments
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Standard (the first three from Fischhoff 2013) | Purpose |
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| Materiality | To promote the paramount status of users’ needs, which may reflect competing demands related to the speed, scope and precision of scientific advice required. |
| Proximity | To promote effective user-access to scientific advice in both time and space. |
| Comprehensibility | To ensure users can readily extract sufficient meaning from scientific advice. |
| Integrity | To nurture the willingness of users to receive and trust scientific advice and make informed decisions based upon the quality of existing relationships. |