12th Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference

Delegates at the 2019 Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference will help develop a strategic view on whether research and formal reviews of natural hazards from around Australia, New Zealand, and across the globe, are providing us with the best knowledge to deal with the extreme hazards of our future. The program will be staged around an exploration of this massive impact.

Registration are now open. Early bird prices apply until 20 May 2019.

Pricing (including GST)

Registration type            Earlybird        Full

CRC Member                    $550                $660

Non-member                   $660                $770-

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The program

This conference program will start with a scene-setting opening on the Monday evening, with guest speaker Rob De Castella and feature guest speaker Rob de Castella AO MBE, Director of the Indigenous Marathon Project. Tuesday will be dedicated to exploring the multiple impacts of an extreme weather event and their relationship to current research and emergency management policies. On Wednesday, the conference will draw together all the necessary parts to take Australia and New Zealand into the next decade well prepared, focused, and confident to manage the extreme impacts of natural hazards. 

Your view is needed

Attendance at this conference will be limited to allow for plenty of good discussion and debate, both in a plenary format with expert speakers and in facilitated break-out sessions. Participants will be required to contribute. New ways of thinking about the issues will be encouraged. Your views will count. Your vision on how to use research and influence policy is needed.

Who should attend?

The conference is aimed at people who are called upon to deal with the impacts of natural hazards including those from research, government (local, state, and federal), fire and emergency service agencies, community and volunteer groups, health, insurance, finance, essential services (power, gas, water), and others.

Is our current state of knowledge in natural hazards adequately preparing us for an extreme weather event of a scale that is beyond our experience? 

This conference will stretch your thinking on what is possible, and what needs to be done. The conference program of keynote speakers, topic experts and community representatives, will be announced shortly.

The 12th Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference is hosted by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, and takes place in Canberra from 17-19 June 2019 at the Australian Institute of Sport.

Supported by the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, and Integrated Research on Disaster Risk, which is part of the International Science Council and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.

For sponsorship opportunities please contact Amy Mulder, Communications Officer at the CRC: amy.mulder@bnhcrc.com.au