@article {BF-3248,
	title = {  This special legal edition of the Australian Journal of Emergency Management in context},
	journal = {The Australian Journal of Emergency Management},
	volume = {27},
	year = {2012},
	chapter = {5},
	abstract = {It is an honour to provide the overview of these papers in this special edition. The topics raised in these papers are crucial to the nation and to the role of emergency management. They delve into the depths of matters needing consideration and understanding.

These papers represent research, funded by the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), to address aspects of mainstreaming fire and emergency management across legal and policy sectors. Three papers, Carter (La Trobe), Eburn and Dovers (ANU) and Handmer and McLennan (RMIT University) are written by key researchers in this area. The other three, by Biggs, Fetchik and McNamara, are written by students who took part in Australian Disaster Law, a postgraduate law unit, designed and coordinated by Michael Eburn, and offered by the ANU College of Law in 2011. Offered as part of various Masters programmes and as part of the Juris Doctor (a postgraduate law degree), this unit, and these papers, are practical demonstrations of the work being conducted by the Bushfire CRC and the ANU to encourage new researchers to think about how law and policy impact upon Australia{\textquoteright}s resilience. },
	url = {http://www.em.gov.au/Publications/Australianjournalofemergencymanagement/Currentissue/Documents/WEMA\%20Vol27No1_Thornton.PDF},
	author = {RP Thornton}
}
