6th International Conference on Forest Fire Research

A wide range of topics involved in this pluri-disciplinar problem will be covered by the authors during the Conference. Therefore papers or posters dealing with the most relevant topics related to forest fires on a scientific basis will be presented.

The following list of subjects is given as a guide line for the eventual organisation of the sessions:
> Fire Prevention

> Fuels, Biomass management; Prescribed Fire

> Meteorological and climatic factors

> Meteorological factors, Fire weather Indexes, Remote sensing; Fire and Global Change

> Fire Behaviour

> Fire behaviour modeling, Smoke dispersion, Decision support systems, Fire suppression systems, Case studies; The Victoria fires of 2009

> Fire Ecology

> Fire effects in vegetation, fauna, soils, water and air.

> Fire Safety

> Extreme Fire behaviour, Case studies; The Victoria fires of 2009

> Socio-economic factors

> Information and communication with populations
> Socio economic impacts of forest fires

> Urban Wildland Interface

> Fire behaviour in the Urban Wildland Interface; fuel management in the UWI; structural vulnerability
> Case Studies