Thus, to answer the question, mitigating the effects of the eruption will require preparations to protect human life, and to prepare the nation and economy for the inevitable significant disruption and damage that follows the eruption.
Its hardly surprising then that they've been scrambling to find a way to minimise any disruption from the next eruption (and there will be a next eruption).
Match referee Steve Bennett, who had been due to officiate the derby game, will miss the match after becoming stranded abroad following travel disruption caused by a volcanic eruption in Iceland.