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Bushfire CRC > Events > Annual Conference Adelaide 2008

The International Bushfire Research Conference

Adelaide 2008

Almost 1100 delegates participated in this years combined International Bushfire Research Conference 2008 and 15th Annual AFAC Conference. The event was held from 1 to 3 September at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

The three day conference heard from more than 90 international and Australian speakers from research organisations and from the fire and related industries.

Bushfire CRC Chairman, Len Foster, said the event offered a great opportunity for
representatives in the fire industry to exchange information with researchers.

“They saw how leading researchers from around the world are working with industry partners
on issues that have been identified as critical to their business,” he said.

Follow the links at left for more on the presentations, research posters and the pre-conference workshop Bushfire Incident Response.

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ABC Online

Reports on the conference, photos, video and audio, are available here. (External Link)

Documents

“FIERY WOMEN” - Consulting, designing, delivering and evaluating pilot women’s bushfire safety skills workshops.
This paper was presented at the Adelaide Convention Centre in September 2008, and authored by Di DeLaine of Rural Solutions SA, Therese Pedler and John Probert of SA Country Fire Service, and Helen Goodman and Catherine Rowe of Bushfire CRC, Project C7. [pdf 310.5 kb]


Community responses to bushfires - The role and nature of systems of primary sociality (New Community Quarterly, 5,1, 11-25)
This publication in New Community Quarterly, authored by Helen Goodman, Jacques Boulet and Lucy healey, was one outcome of Bushfire CRC 'in-depth interview' work concerning the Wangary fire event. [doc 490.0 kb]


Article

Read an edited extract an edited extract of an address to the 2008 conference by Ian Mannix, the Manager of Emergency Broadcasting and Community Development at ABC Local Radio, titled "ABC Local Radio - An Emergency Agency?" first published in Fire Australia magazine, as one of many Bushfire CRC News Features.