6th Australasian Hazards Management Conference
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 21-22 August 2012

From warnings to effective response and recovery

Photo: D. Beetham, GNS Science

Conference details

The 2012 Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference will provide a forum to discuss the integration of hazard
information into effective risk management, including:

• Applying hazard information to best practice planning
• Developing effective warning systems
• Improved response and recovery from events
• Creating resilient communities through integrating science into practice

Our target audience is: Emergency managers, planners, risk assessors, asset
and utility managers, natural hazards researchers and scientists.

The 2012 conference details are as follows:

Date:     21 - 22 August 2012 (with optional workshops 20, 23 & 24 August 2012)

Venue:   University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

• Download the 2012 conference poster

Key dates

Call for papers and posters

A preliminary speaking programme will be available on the conference web page in May 2012. If you are interested in speaking please send an abstract of the proposed talk by 1 April 2012. The programme will be selected after that date and confirmed by 1 May 2012.

Participants are invited to present posters. Dedicated poster sessions have been scheduled. Those presenting posters must submit abstracts by email as attached files (MS Word) by 8 June 2012 to ahmc@hazards-education.org

Abstracts should be formatted as follows:

• A4 format
• One page only
• Text within frame 160 mm by 230 mm high
• 12 pt type, Justified
• poster title in upper case, bold, align left, followed on separate lines by authors name(s) - bold, organisation(s), address and emails

Contact details

If you have any questions regarding this year’s conference, please do not hesitate to contact ahmc@hazards-education.org