This list of references includes those international organizations, institutions or programmes involved in the international fire arena that are mentioned in the document. Other key information sources are provided as well.
Advisory Group on Environmental Emergencies (AGEE) (OCHA/UNEP)
http://ochaonline.un.org/webpage.asp?Page=640
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
www.haze-online.or.id/
Bi-spectral Infrared Detection (BIRD) satellite mission of the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
www.eid.dlr.de/os/forschung/projekte/bird/
Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)
www.bushfirecrc.com/
Canadian Forest Service (CFS)
www.nrcan.gc.ca/cfs-scf/
Comité Technique International du Feu (CTIF – International Technical Committee for the Prevention and Extinction of Fire/International Association of Fire and Rescue Services)
Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CagM) (WMO)
www.wmo.ch/web/wcp/agm/CAgM/CAgMmenu.htm
Community-based fire management (CBFiM)
www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/Manag/CBFiM.htm
Council of Europe (CoE)
www.coe.int/t/dg4/majorhazards/default_EN.asp
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
www.biodiv.org/default.shtml
Earth Observing System – Data and Information System (EOS-DIS)
http://spsosun.gsfc.nasa.gov/eosinfo/EOSDIS_Site/index.html
Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
www.unece.org/trade/timber/ff-stats.html
Environmental Emergencies Partnership (EEP)
www.humanitarianinfo.org/eep/projectupdates.htm
Eurasian Fire in Nature Conservation Network (EFNCN)
www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/programmes/natcon/natcon.htm
European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Open Partial Agreement (EUR-OPA)
www.coe.int/t/dg4/majorhazards/default_EN.asp
European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS)
http://effis.jrc.it/Home/
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
www.fao.org/forestry/site/infonote/en
FAO Committee on Forestry (COFO)
www.fao.org/forestry/site/2962/en
FAO Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP)
www.fao.org/tc/tcp/
Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
www.earthobservations.org/index.html
Global Environment Centre (GEC)
www.gecnet.info/
Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC)
www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/
www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/GlobalNetworks/globalNet.html
www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/GlobalNetworks/RationaleandIntroduction.html
www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/summit-2003/introduction.htm
Global Fire Partnership (GFP)
www.nature.org/initiatives/fire/partnership/art15303.html
Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) (FAO)
www.fao.org/forestry/site/fra2005/en
Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD – a project of GTOS, sponsored by IGOS)
Global Wildland Fire Network (GWFN) (UN-ISDR)
www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/GlobalNetworks/globalNet.html
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
www.earthobservations.org/index.html
Incident Command System (ICS)
www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/iffn/iffn_29/IWFS-3-Paper-3.pdf
Institute for Environment and Human Security (EHS) (UNU)
www.ehs.unu.edu
International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF)
www.iawfonline.org/
International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA)
www.ibfra.org/
International Forest Fire News (IFFN)
www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/iffn/iffn.htm
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
www.igbp.kva.se/cgi-bin/php/frameset.php
http://diotima.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/bibex/
International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC)
www.igac.noaa.gov/
http://diotima.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/bibex/
Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS)
www.igospartners.org/Part.htm
http://gofc-fire.umd.edu/
International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
www.itto.or.jp/live/index.jsp
International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO) (OCHA)
www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-8/80000/80100/80110/
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/
OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID)
www.opecfund.org/about/about.aspx
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
www.opec.org/home/
Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning (PPEW)
www.unisdr.org/ppew/
Space Technology and Disaster Management (STDM) (UNOOSA)
www.unoosa.org/oosa/SAP/stdm/index.html
The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
http://www.nature.org/initiatives/fire/science/index.html
www.nature.org/initiatives/fire/partnership/art15303.html
Unexploded ordnance (UXO)
www.halotrust.org/
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
www.un.org/geninfo/bp/enviro.html
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
www.unccd.int/
United Nations Disaster Relief Organization (UNDRO – founded 1971; since 1998 OCHA)
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
www.unesco.org/
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
http://grid2.cr.usgs.gov/
United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF)
www.un.org/esa/forests/index.html
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
http://unfccc.int/2860.php
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
www.unitar.org/
United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR – 1990s; since 2000 UN-ISDR)
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN-ISDR)
www.unisdr.org/eng/task%20force/tf-working-groups4-eng.htm
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
www.unoosa.org/oosa/SAP/stdm/index.html
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
www.reliefweb.int/ochaunep/
United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) (UNITAR) – implemented in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Project Services)
United Nations Register of Military, Civil Defence and Civil Protection Assets (MCDA)
http://ocha.unog.ch/cr/register.asp?MenuID=1&MenuEntryID=2&SearchTypeID=1
United Nations University (UNU)
www.unu.edu/
Wildland Fire Advisory Group (WFAG) (UN-ISDR)
www.unisdr.org/eng/task%20force/tf-working-groups4-eng.htm
World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR)
www.unisdr.org/eng/hfa/hfa.htm
World Conservation Union (IUCN ) (formerly International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources)
World Health Organization (WHO)
www.who.int/docstore/peh/Vegetation_fires/vegetation_fires.htm
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
www.wmo.ch/index-en.html
World Weather Research Programme (WWRP)
www.wmo.int/web/arep/wwrp/wwrp_homepage.shtml
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/forests/problems/forest_fires/index.cfm
