In seeking to understand the nexus between awareness of the volcanic hazards, the trust in public officials and the media, and the decisions of peoples to live with apparent natural hazard risk, we must root our analysis within an appreciation of the relations of power within local society, and the extent to which the governing structure is seen as legitimate.
Yet an indifferently constructed sailboat is both an embarrassment to a noble tradition and a potential hazard to anyone trusting it to keep out the sea.
This suggests that verbal expression in the key can play a role in interpretation of hazard map data, as trust is a critical factor in stakeholder engagement with uncertain hazard map data (Frewer and Salter 2007; Wachinger et al. 2013).
It would be helpful to understand these relationships in more detail, particularly how levels of complexity, levels of hazard and levels of trust interact.
In order to overcome problems of trust and moral hazard, some authors have advocated collective contracting of index insurance (Trærup 2012) but this is unlikely to solve the inherent problem of high basis risk which underlines computation of payouts.
This indicates, in part, that we can not focus exclusively on the scientific community when exploring issues of trust surrounding natural hazards, and that we need to look at levels of trust in relationship to other sources of insecurity.
The social effect of abandonment has been termed "the broken window syndrome": Neighborhoods with broken windows and dilapidated housing encourage crime, pose safety hazards, isolate residents and reduce trust in the ability of the neighborhood to meet its challenges [ 30].
We first present the survival and hazard curves for seven large acute trusts for year 2000/01 (Fig. 7).
"If a host or guest ever alerts us to a hazard or safety issue at a listing, our Trust and Safety team works quickly to review it, fix the problem or remove the listing from our community". .
A third way is to educate the public about the hazard, the risks, and the probabilities of hazardous event occurrence, and then to trust that people will choose to minimize the hazard exposure of their homes and businesses.
