September 7, 2012
Adopting Disaster Resilient Construction at the Local Level
National Ready Mixed Concrete Association
Glen Allen, Virginia
Cost and Registration: $95, open until filled
This conference will talk about how to formalize and implement disaster-resilient construction on a community level. Topics include assessing local disaster risks, benefits and techniques of disaster mitigation, enhancing resilience through building code modifications, building safe rooms and storm shelters, and the economic value of disaster-resilient concrete construction.
September 24-26, 2012
2012 Emergency Management and Homeland Security Education and Campus Preparedness Summit
California State University Council for Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Fresno, California
Cost and Registration: Free, closes September 1
This conference will address accomplishments and upcoming goals in the process of creating a formalized emergency management and homeland security academic discipline. Issues of campus preparedness will also be examined. Topics include emergency preparedness on campus, protecting critical campus infrastructure, integrating youth CERT programs, best practices in campus ShakeOut participation, cybersecurity education, and resiliency in homeland security and EM education.
October 22-25, 2012
Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
National Agency for Disaster Management
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Cost and Registration: Free, closes October 1
This conference will discuss how to integrate local risk reduction into national development plans, ways to finance and conduct local risk assessments, and how to strengthen local risk governance. Topics include identifying local mitigation priorities, allocating funding for disaster risk reduction in rehabilitation and reconstruction, ensuring local participation in risk reduction planning, and incorporating climate change into disaster risk assessments.
October 25-26, 2012
12th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit
International Association of Wildland Fire
Sydney, Australia
Cost and Registration: $395 before September 25, open until filled
This summit will focus on the challenges of teaching wildland fire safety to a new generation of fire fighters as the workforce continues to age. Topics to be covered include new approaches to fire safety, key lessons to teach the next generation, empowering new fire recruits, and safety responsibilities shared by both new and retiring firefighters.
November 5-11, 2012
Fourth International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning and Policy
Mexico National Forestry Commission, U.S. Forest Service, International Wildland Fire Association, and Others
Mexico City, Mexico
Cost and Registration: $400, open until filled
This conference will look at increased costs of wildfire management and the futility of fighting fires in environments without fuel management strategies. Topics include the consequences of differing management strategies, real and perceived influences of climate change, sustainable forest management, hazardous fuel treatment, and research solutions to current wildland fire challenges.
November 6, 2012
High-Rise Aerial Firefighting and Rescue
Tangent Link
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Cost and Registration: $140, open until filled
This conference will examine the feasibility of fighting high-rise fires using helicopters. Topics include case studies of helicopter use in urban Moscow firefighting, how to form helicopter firefighting and rescue teams, and standard operating procedures for high-rise fire and rescue operations.