IAFSS agenda 2030 for a fire safe world

• Published in: Fire safety journal Vol. 110; p. 102889
• Main Authors: McNamee, Margaret, Meacham, Brian, van Hees, Patrick, Bisby, Luke, Chow, W.K., Coppalle, Alexis, Dobashi, Ritsu, Dlugogorski, Bogdan, Fahy, Rita, Fleischmann, Charles, Floyd, Jason, Galea, Edwin R, Gollner, Michael, Hakkarainen, Tuula, Hamins, Anthony, Hu, Longhua, Johnson, Peter, Karlsson, Björn, Merci, Bart, Ohmiya, Yoshifuni, Rein, Guillermo, Trouvé, Arnaud, Wang, Yi, Weckman, Beth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lausanne Elsevier Ltd 01-12-2019; Elsevier BV; Elsevier
• Subjects: Annan samhällsbyggnadsteknik; Civil Engineering; Climate change; Engineering and Technology; Engineering research; Engineering Sciences; Fire protection; Fire safety; Globalization; Other Civil Engineering; Population growth; Reactive fluid environment; Reliability engineering; Safety; Safety engineering; Samhällsbyggnadsteknik; Sustainability; Teknik; Urbanization
• ISSN: 0379-7112; 1873-7226
• DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2019.102889

The International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) is comprised of members from some 40 countries. This paper presents the Association's thinking, developed by the Management Committee, concerning pressing research needs for the coming 10 years presented as the IAFSS Agenda 2030 for a Fire Safe World. The research needs are couched in terms of two broad Societal Grand Challenges: (1) climate change, resiliency and sustainability and (2) population growth, urbanization and globalization. The two Societal Grand Challenges include significant fire safety components, that lead both individually and collectively to the need for a number of fire safety and engineering research activities and actions. The IAFSS has identified a list of areas of research and actions in response to these challenges. The list is not exhaustive, and actions within actions could be defined, but this paper does not attempt to cover all future needs.
•The manuscript represents a research agenda for the International Association of Fire Safety Science.•The Agenda is based on a discussion of fire safety from a global perspective outlining two main Global Grand Challenges.•Fire safety science and engineering research objectives and actions are outlined in response to the Global Grand Challenges.