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Book Synopsis Externalities in the Wildland - Urban Interface by : Howard Kunreuther
Download or read book Externalities in the Wildland - Urban Interface written by Howard Kunreuther and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the property damage from wildfires occurs when fires spread into built up areas, the wildland urban interface. Fire spread within such areas occurs from house to house, as embers from one burning structure ignite neighboring ones. Actions can be taken to mitigate the chances that a given house will ignite. This size and configuration of this external benefit depends on the assumed process of fire spread. In this paper we use a simulation model based on plausible parameters to illustrate likely patterns of marginal benefit from mitigation as a function of building density and effectiveness of mitigation. The model indicates that a common pattern is for marginal benefit to unmitigated neighbors to be low at low levels of community mitigation, rise to a maximum, and then fall quickly to a low level. This maximum marginal benefit (known as "herd immunity") helps to indicate the optimal pattern of mitigation in a community. However individual owners in Nash equilibrium will not take the spillover benefits into account. We use the distribution of house values in a California community relative to an assumed cost of mitigation to illustrate in the model the level of mitigation owners will undertake when they make independent investment decisions, and the corrective actions that can lead to the social optimum. We discuss the use of rules or subsidies for insurance premium adjustments based on mitigation activities. Because it will rarely be optimal to mitigate all homes, the optimal solution may involve unequal treatment and raise equity issues.
Book Synopsis Economic and Policy Perspectives of the Wildland-urban Interface by : Janaki R. R. Alavalapati
Download or read book Economic and Policy Perspectives of the Wildland-urban Interface written by Janaki R. R. Alavalapati and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Case Study on the Economics of Thinning in the Wildland Urban Interface by : Debra S. Larson
Download or read book A Case Study on the Economics of Thinning in the Wildland Urban Interface written by Debra S. Larson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Culture, Conflict, And Communication In The Wildland-urban Interface by : Alan W Ewert
Download or read book Culture, Conflict, And Communication In The Wildland-urban Interface written by Alan W Ewert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of culture, conflict and communication in a rural/urban setting.
Book Synopsis Urban-Rural Interfaces by : David N. Laband
Download or read book Urban-Rural Interfaces written by David N. Laband and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the urban–rural interface? Is it a visual phenomenon, a place where country gives way to neighborhoods and shopping areas in a startling way? Is it a simple factor of population density? There is nothing simple about the urban–rural interface—editors David Laband, Graeme Lockaby, and Wayne Zipperer present the broad spectrum of interdisciplinary complexities at play. Organized into three sections on changing ecosystems, changing human dimensions, and the dynamic integration of human and natural systems, this book is a must read for anyone who works in the real world, where natural and human systems are joined. This is the new sustainability science, an emerging discipline that integrates social and economic values with the physical, chemical, and ecological functions of ecosystems. The goal is optimal management, since our human impact is often significant and far-reaching in both space and time.
Book Synopsis Culture, Conflict, And Communication In The Wildland-urban Interface by : Alan W Ewert
Download or read book Culture, Conflict, And Communication In The Wildland-urban Interface written by Alan W Ewert and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1993-09-20 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most pressing issues currently facing society's use of natural resources is the influence that urbanization and urban cultures have on wildland uses. This collection of essays addresses a variety of wildland-urban issues and topics including: identifying the characteristics of cross-cultural wildland users; developing a land ethic among nontraditional forest users; communicating effectively with diverse cultures among users; and managing depreciative behavior. Created for scholars, natural resource managers, planners, and policymakers, this book will also prove invaluable to anyone interested in exploring our land ethic and its impact on our land."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Forests at the Wildland-Urban Interface by : Susan W. Vince
Download or read book Forests at the Wildland-Urban Interface written by Susan W. Vince and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-11-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forests at the wildland-urban interface are at increasing risk due to the impacts of urbanization. Conserving and managing these forestlands for continued ecological and social benefits is a critical and complex challenge facing natural resource managers, land-use planners, and policymakers. Forests at the Wildland-Urban Interface: Conservat
Book Synopsis The Impact of Residential Development Pattern on Wildland Fire Suppression Expenditures by : Anna M. Scofield
Download or read book The Impact of Residential Development Pattern on Wildland Fire Suppression Expenditures written by Anna M. Scofield and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wildland urban interface (WUI) increases wildland fire suppression expenditures and impedes land managers' ability to reduce fire risk. Policies to reduce these WUI impacts are hindered by jurisdictional externalities -- federal agencies are charged with protecting homes from wildland fires, while local governments decide where and how development can occur. Policymakers therefore need an understanding of WUI characteristics that drive firefighting expenditures to develop effective solutions for existing and future WUI development. Despite a growing body of literature indicating that the spatial pattern of development impacts the efficiency and cost of public service provision, the effect of WUI development pattern on fire suppression expenditures has received only cursory treatment in the literature. I address this gap by empirically modeling the relationship between fire suppression expenditures and the spatial pattern of residential development. I use data on 280 fires in the Northern Rockies (CO, MT and WY) to estimate a regression model relating suppression expenditures to fire characteristics, management characteristics, and the spatial pattern of development. I find that the effect of WUI development on suppression expenditures is highly dependent on spatial pattern. Though past research has confirmed that the presence of structures influences expenditures, my results indicate that the effect of development on fire suppression expenditures cannot be accurately assessed without considering the spatial pattern of development. A unit increase in the complexity of development pattern increases expenditures by approximately six percent. The difference in expenditures between fires with dispersed or clustered structures can be as much as $620,000. My results indicate that policies that control the spatial pattern of WUI development can be nearly as effective as policies that completely restrict WUI development.
Book Synopsis People and Fire at the Wildland/urban Interface by : Robert D. Gale
Download or read book People and Fire at the Wildland/urban Interface written by Robert D. Gale and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the ... Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by :
Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Eleventh Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by : Kenneth W. Outcalt
Download or read book Proceedings of the Eleventh Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference written by Kenneth W. Outcalt and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Addressing Misconceptions about Wildland-urban Interface Issues by : Martha C. Monroe
Download or read book Addressing Misconceptions about Wildland-urban Interface Issues written by Martha C. Monroe and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wildland-urban Interface in the United States by : Susan I. Stewart
Download or read book The Wildland-urban Interface in the United States written by Susan I. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this project is to provide information on "the area where houses and wildland vegetation coincide." Although there are other ways of defining the wildland-urban interface (WUI), this is the definition referenced in the National Fire Plan. Details about the rationale, development, testing, and sensitivity analysis of this definition, as well as the data sources and analytical methods we used, can be found at the end of the article in the methods section. The WUI maps and data were created with the hope they would be useful to planners and managers at the local, state, and national levels. Tools and information regarding the WUI are available on our Web site for public use. Users should note that the resulting WUI map does not indicate the risk of fire; it shows only where houses and wildland vegetation coincide. Some of the areas identified as WUI are prone to fire, and some are not.
Book Synopsis Wildland-urban Interface by : Annie Hermansen-Baez
Download or read book Wildland-urban Interface written by Annie Hermansen-Baez and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Externalities, land use planning and urban expansion by : Jasper Evert Christiaan Dekkers
Download or read book Externalities, land use planning and urban expansion written by Jasper Evert Christiaan Dekkers and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wspc Reference On Natural Resources And Environmental Policy In The Era Of Global Change, The (In 4 Volumes) by :
Download or read book Wspc Reference On Natural Resources And Environmental Policy In The Era Of Global Change, The (In 4 Volumes) written by and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 1631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WSPC Reference on Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change provides a comprehensive and prominent reference of various highly authoritative volumes of long-term scientific value, for milestone concepts and theories. The books in the reference set are edited by leading experts in the fields of: Game Theory, International Relations and Global Politics, Computable General Equilibrium (CGE): Economy-Wide Modeling, and Experimental Economics. Each book in the reference set includes chapters that are laid out by recognized, broadly respected researchers, in fields associated with issues related to natural resources and environmental policy in the era of global change. The reference set focuses on the economic and strategic aspects of interactions among various parts of society, all dependent on the availability and utilization of limited natural resources and their impact on the environment. Policy implications are addressed, including current challenges and future perspectives.The combination of the four books provides a unique perspective on the issues that engage the public discourse of researchers and policy-makers at state, regional, and global levels. Each of the books in the reference set and all four books as a whole provide coverage of disciplines and angles through which the reader can obtain an understanding of the state-of-the-art of dealing with natural resources and environmental policy in the era of global change. The books in the reference set complement each other and provide a scientific understanding of our ability to address the issues covered.
Download or read book Wildfire Policy written by Dean Lueck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law ranging from judicial behaviour to contracts. This book will reflects the first-ever forum for law and economics scholars to apply the analysis and methodologies of their field to the subject of wildfire. The only modern legal work on wildfire, the book brings together leading scholars to consider questions such as: How can public policy address the effects of climate change on wildfire, and wildfire on climate change? Are the environmental and fiscal costs of ex ante prevention measures justified? What are the appropriate levels of prevention and suppression responsibility borne by private, state, and federal actors? Can tort liability provide a solution for realigning the grossly distorted incentives that currently exist for private landowners and government firefighters? Do the existing incentives in wildfire institutions provide incentives for efficient private and collective action and how might they be improved?
