Wildland Fire Canada 2016: Building Resilience
The conference program is designed around four main themes, all related to the overall conference theme of building resilience:
1. Anticipating change
Scenarios, monitoring, risk assessment and prediction tools in a changing fire environment
- Climate change and extreme events
- Increasing fire complexity
- Fire behaviour, danger and risk assessment
2. Designing resilient fire management systems
Strategies, tactics and practices to cope with increasing fire complexity and extreme events
- Prevention outreach and communication
- Decision support systems
- Human factors: safety, wellness, recruitment, decision making
- New technologies
3. Defining and managing resilient landscapes
Understanding and shaping landscapes to facilitate successful fire management outcomes
- Fuel and land management planning and economics
- Incorporating fire effects and fire regimes into land management
- Case studies of successful implementation
4. Planning smarter, safer, resilient communities
Strategies and best practices to create more fire resilient communities
- Community planning and policy
- Public education and engagement
- Emergency operations response
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