AOAFST minutes of meeting, 21 September 2007

2021

Minutes of the AOAFST Meeting 2021 Time and Date: AEST 00:15 – 01:10 (8 December 2021) CET 15:15 – 16:10 (7 December 2021) EST 09:15 – 10:10 (7 December 2021) Venue: Virtual meeting via Zoom

Abstract Disaster risk reduction and sustainability are major imperatives for fire management. Now, fire management must also consider climate change. Viewed holistically, the sector is very large, with links into many policy issues. Its governance and policy framework must therefore be both integrated and adaptive. This relies on collaboration and institutional learning. Collaboration and learning are social processes. In a public policy context they depend on relations between public policy actors.

Journal of Paleontology, 2004

were also present. Bill Ausich presented the President's report. He first thanked the many people who served the PS in the past year, who were leaving their positions, including members of Council and of various PS committees. Ausich then made a series of announcements. He has resisted participating in the Council of Scientific Society Presidents' meeting, an expensive activity. The American Geological Institute (AGI) careers brochure is complete, and a copy of it will be included with our journals.