Risk management for safer communities : World Disaster Reduction Day, Melbourne 1997.

"Papers from the 1997 World Disaster Reduction Day Seminar hosted by the Victoria Emergency Management Council and sponsored by the Australian IDNDR Coordination Committee ... held at the Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Training and Fire Safety Complex, Melbourne, 8 October 1997"

Includes bibliographical references

Introduction / D. Ingle Smith -- United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) / Hon. Bill McGrath -- Risk management in the emergency management context / John Salter -- Leading community recovery / Tom Keating -- Community emergency risk management: a practitioners approach / Joe Buffone -- Community emergency risk management assessment: a municipal perspective / Penny Gale -- Community fireguard / Nan Oates -- Fire risk management / Michael Hill -- Community preparedness management processes in action: the SEMCAC perspective / Sue Gray, Helen Hill and John Hill -- Effective community collaboration in emergency management / Mark Hennessy