Living on the edge economic, institutional and management perspectives on wildfire hazard in the urban interface

Wildfires are a fact of life throughout many arid and semi-arid regions, such as the American West. With growing population pressures in these regions, human communities are increasingly developing in so-called urban-wildland interface zones, where severe fire driven ecosystems co-exist uneasily wit...

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Other Authors Troy, Austin, Kennedy, Roger G.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2007.
SeriesAdvances in the economics of environmental resources ; v. 6.
Subjects
Environmental economics.
Natural resources.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849500005
ISSN1569-3740 ;
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xii, 253 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : finding solutions to the urban-wildland fire problem in a changing world / Austin Troy, Roger G. Kennedy
  • The effects of wildfire disclosure and occurrence on property markets in California / Austin Troy, Jeff Romm
  • Wildfire underwriting in California : an industry perspective / Candysse Miller
  • A tale of two policies : California programs that unintentionally promote development in wildland fire hazard zones / Austin Troy
  • Community involvement in wildfire hazard mitigation and management : community based fire management, fire safe councils and community wildfire protection plans / David Ganz, Austin Troy, David Saah
  • Forest fire history : learning from disaster / Roger G. Kennedy
  • Human communities and wildfires : a review of research literature and issues / Patricia A. Stokowski
  • Modeling fire in the wildland-urban interface : directions for planning / John Radke
  • Comments on the present and future of wildland fire suppression decision-making processes / Ben Machin, Mark Hentze
  • Climate variability, climate change, and western wildfire with implications for the urban-wildland interface / William S. Keeton, Philip W. Mote, Jerry F. Franklin
  • Fire policy in the urban-wildland interface in the United States : what are the issues and possible solutions? / Scott L. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins
  • Wildfire hazard mitigation as safe smart growth / Robert G. Paterson
  • Practical and institutional constraints on adopting wide-scale prescribed burning : lessons from the mountains of California / Kurt M. Menning.

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