The Effect of the Uncertainties in Natural Hazard Prediction on the User Communities

Abstract

Generally scientists communicate the results of their researches to restricted environments of specialists, well aware of the specialized scientific languages and informed of the limits of the uncertainties implied by the results of such research works. However in some cases scientists must transmit the conclusions of their researches to larger groups of recipients, including people not familiar with the language of science. In such cases, given the fact that the research data utilised are affected by errors and hence are characterised by certain probability values, non-trivial problems of communication could arise.