Disaster Prevention for the 21st Century : proceedings of the Australian disaster conference 1999, Canberra 1-3 November 1999.

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Creating the capacity to achieve a safe community -- Understanding multi-hazard risk in urban communities -- Opportunities and challenges for meteorological and hydrological warning systems -- Managing risk at local government level -- The application of the Australian Emergency Risk Management Standard to bush fire management in New South Wales: a case study -- How far do bushfires penetrate urban areas? -- Recognition and responsible development of unstable land -- Flash flood warning services: what the Bureau can do for you -- Reducing severe weather impacts -- The Tropical Cyclone Coastal Impacts Program: a collaborative Australian IDNDR initiative -- Effects of Cyclone Vance on the strength of houses in Exmouth WA -- Community response to tropical cyclones in northern Australia -- Assessing geohazard risk -- Models for seismic hazard assessment in Australia -- Monitoring of geological hazards in New Zealand -- Applications of the uniform-hazard site-specific acceleration response spectrum in Pacific cities -- Earthquake mitigation strategies in Australia and the IDNDR RADIUS initiative -- Mitigation measures for tsunami in Australia and its island territories -- Tsunami disaster at Sissano, Papua New Guinea: in search of the cause and assessing the risk by multibeam sonar and remotely operated vehicle -- Insuring for risk -- Risk assessment from a global viewpoint -- Flooding risk assessment and applications in underwriting -- Involving the community in disaster reduction -- Involving citizens in hazard mitigation: making the right choices -- Towards a better practice: the evolution of flood management in New South Wales -- Developing hazard vulnerability indices -- A new damage intensity scale: Australian experience -- New approaches to assessing vulnerability and resilience -- Composite vulnerability indicator (CVIndicator): a model for physical planning through multi-hazard vulnerability analysis -- Involving the community in disaster reduction: bushfire -- Stay or go: understanding community responses to the threat of hazards -- A framework for understanding and monitoring levels of preparedness for wildfire -- Community response to a bushfire threat -- Responding to disasters: the human point of view -- Fire evacuation in the operating room -- Registration and inquiry: where to from here? -- Katherine 1998: appeals and self sufficiency: lessons for the future -- Applying technology to risk assessment -- Floodplain inundation risk model -- Risk-GIS: assessing the risk with visualisation -- What is the earthquake risk to Australian cities? -- Spatial data issues -- Remote sensing for flood mapping -- Postmortem: lessons learnt from a hazardous GIS research project -- Improving the accessibility of emergency management information -- Uses and limitations of socioeconomic indicators in measuring vulnerability to natural hazards -- The use of remote sensing and GIS technology by NSW Agriculture for emergency management -- The development of dynamic and integrated expert system to help communities cope with disasters --Reducing disasters through the school curriculum -- Making a deep impact: awareness in schools -- Disaster prevention: education is the key -- Reducing and responding to disasters in the Asia Pacific region -- Incorporation of mitigation strategies into Pacific national government and non-government systems -- Bhopal gas tragedy: could it have happened in a developed country? -- Reducing disasters through community awareness and education -- The future of education and training in emergency management -- Collaborative research on public education needs produce initial results -- The appraisal of information material on disaster preparedness -- A social marketing framework for the development of effective public awareness programs -- Reducing landslide and hail risk -- Landslide risk to the Cairns community -- Geotechnical assessment and management of 148 landslides triggered by a major storm event in Wollo