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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Bingley, U.K.
Emerald
2007
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| Series: | Advances in the economics of environmental resources
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| Collection: | Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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