CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND CONSULTATIONS ORGANIZED BY GFMC AND PARTNERS
Proceedings, Publications and Related Details
Note: Activities between 1977 and 1998 were organized by the predecessor institution of GFMC – the Fire Ecology Research Group (Arbeitsgruppe Feuerökologie)
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International Conferences convened by GFMC 1977-2021
- First Symposium on Fire Ecology (Freiburg, Germany, 1977)
- Second Symposium on Fire Ecology (Freiburg, Germany, 1983)
- Third International Symposium on Fire Ecology – Part I: 3rd European Symposium on Fire Ecology (Freiburg, Germany, 1989)
- Third International Symposium on Fire Ecology – Part II: Fire in the Tropical Biota (Freiburg, Germany, 1989)
- Tropical Forests in Transition (Freiburg, Germany, 1991)
- Seminar on Forest Fire Prevention, Land Use and People (Athens, Greece, 1991)
- Fire in the Environment: The Ecological, Climatic and Atmospheric Chemical Importance of Vegetation Fires (Berlin, Germany, 1991)
- Fire in Ecosystems of Boreal Eurasia (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, 1993)
- Seminar on Forest, Fire and Global Change (Shushenskoe, Russian Federation, 1996)
- First Baltic Conference on Forest Fires (Jedlnia, Rudy Raciborskie, Radom and Kielce, Poland, 1998)
- BALTEX FIRE 2000 (Baltic Exercise for Fire Information and Resources Exchange) (Kuopio, Finland, 2000)
- Conference on Forest Fire Management and International Cooperation in Fire Emergencies in the Eastern Mediterranean, Balkans and adjoining Regions of the Near East and Central Asia (Antalya, Turkey, 2004)
- Symposium on Fire Management in Cultural and Natural Landscapes, Nature Conservation and Forestry in Temperate-Boreal Eurasia (Freiburg, Germany, 2008)
- First International Central Asian Wildland Fire Conference “Wildland Fires in Natural Ecosystems of the Central Asian Region: Ecology and Management Implications” (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2008)
- Regional conference on Transboundary Cooperation in Fire Management (Irkutsk, Russian Federation, 2010)
- Climate Change and Forest Fires in the Mediterranean Basin: Management and Risk Reduction (Nir Etzion, Israel, 2012)
- International Congress and Trade Fair on Forest Fire and Climate Change: Challenges for Fire Management in Natural and Cultural Landscapes of Eurasia (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation, 2013) (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation, 2013)
- UNECE / FAO Regional Forum on Cross-boundary Fire Management (United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 2013)
- The Fathers of American Forestry (Freiburg, Germany, 2018)
- Strengthening Governance in Landscape Fire Management – European Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (26 November 2021, Matosinhos, Portugal)
International Conferences co-organized or co-chaired by GFMC 1994-2023
- International Wildland Fire Conferences (1989-2023)
- Aerial Firefighting Conferences (2008-2022)
- Sediment Records of Biomass Burning Emissions and Global Change (Praia de Alvor, Portugal, 1994)
International Conferences organized with major support of GFMC 1981-2020
- International Seminar on Forest Fire Prevention and Control (Warsaw, Poland, 1981)
- Seminar on Methods and Equipment for the Prevention of Forest Fires (Valencia, Spain, 1986)
- Wildland Fire 2000 (Fallen Leaf Lake, California, USA, 1987)
- Biomass Burning and Global Change (Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, 1995)
- Regional Conferences in South East Asia (1996-2019)
- 21st Annual Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference on “Fire and Forest Ecology: Innovative Silviculture and Vegetation Management” (Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, Florida, USA, 1998)
- International Workshop “New Approaches to Forest Protection and Fire Management at an Ecoregional Level” (Khabarovsk, Russian Federation, 2003)
- Fire Management Conferences jointly conducted with EMERCOM of Russia and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) (Khabarovsk and Moscow, Russian Federation, 2010-2017)
- Closing meeting (internal and external for policy and decision makers) of the EU Project Fire Paradox (GFMC, Freiburg, Germany, 23-26 February 2010)
National and Regional Consultations on Landscape Fire Management Policies and Regional Transboundary Cooperation in Landscape Fire Management convened by GFMC and Regional Fire Management Resource Centers (2004-2022)
- Regional Conferences in Eurasia (1993-2021)
- Regional and National Conferences in South East Asia (1996-2019)
- Regional Conferences in South East Europe / South Caucasus (2002-2021)
- Regional Conferences in Central Asia (2004-2020)
- Regional Conferences in Northeast Asia (2004-2014)
- Regional Conferences in South Asia (2007-2016)
- Regional Conferences in South America (2004-2021)
- Regional Conferences in Central America (2006-2014)
- Pan-American Wildland Fire Conference (2004)
Other thematic meetings convened by GFMC and Regional Fire Management Resource Centers
- Fire in Nature Conservation (2004+)
- Fire Management on Terrain Contaminated by Radioactivity, Unexploded Ordnance and Land Mines in Temperate-Boreal Eurasia (2007+)
