Dangerous waters: investigating the distribution and social impacts of volcanic metal and volatile pollution in the East African Rift

全球超过8%的人口暴露在火山灾害中(Freire等人。2019年)。这些危险不仅来自传统的喷发和脱气，而且还来自有毒金属污染物的引入，这些污染物从火山微生物中风化并被冲进水资源和农业。在东非，在发生这些灾害的同时也出现了快速发展，往往忽视了社会和灾害在这些地区相互作用的方式。这项跨学科的研究提出了一种方法，可以用来量化这些双重危险及其空间分布，同时也检查与它们生活在一起(和适应)的社区的叙事。它将针对一个主要受影响的地区(可能是埃塞俄比亚的阿瓦萨)，并采用一系列社会科学和地球科学方法。

More than 8% of the global population are exposed to volcanic hazards (Freire et al. 2019). These hazards come not justfrom traditional eruptions and degassing, but also from the introduction of toxic metal pollutants weathered from volcanicrock and washed into water resources and agriculture. In East Africa, rapid development is occurring alongside thesehazards, often with little regard for the ways in which society and hazard are interacting in these locations. Thisinterdisciplinary research proposes a method by which these duel hazards and their spatial distributions may bequantified, while also examining the narrative of the community living with (and adapting to) them. It will target a keyaffected area (potentially Awassa, Ethiopia) and deploy a range of social science and Earth science methods.