Contingency planning for and emergency management of the 1994 Rabaul volcanic eruption, Papua New Guinea : results of a fact-finding visit.

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From 9 to 19 May 1995, a fact-finding team consisting of members of the Ministry of Civil Defence, regional and local civil defence officers, and two volcanologists from the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, visited Papua New Guinea. The visit had two objectives. First, to identify contingency planning, emergency management and response issues relating to the September 1994 volcanic eruption in Rabaul, and second, to examine how the lessons learned from these would apply to New Zealand. In achieving these objectives, team members visited areas of interest to their respective researches, and interviewed key people involved in the management of the emergency. This report focuses on the outcomes of those researches and the lessons which can be applied to civil defence, emergency management and related scientific issues in New Zealand