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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Firefights and Fuel Management: A Nested Rotation Model for Wildfire Risk Mitigation
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| Autores: |
Lankoande, Mariam D.
Yoder, Jonathan K.
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| Data: |
2006-03-24
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| Ano: |
2005
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| Palavras-chave: |
Wildfire
Fuels management
Fire suppression
Optimal rotation
Wildfire economics.
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Q23
D81
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| Resumo: |
Scientists and policymakers are increasingly aware that wildfire management efforts should be broadened beyond the century-long emphasis on suppression to include more effective efforts at fuel management. Because wildfire risks change over time as vegetation matures, fuel management can be viewed as a timing problem, much like timber harvest itself. We develop a nested rotation model to examine the fuel treatment timing issue in the context of a forest environment with both timber value and non-timber values-at-risk. Simulations are performed for a ponderosa pine forest and discussed with a focus on three important aspects of wildfire management: 1) the economic tradeoffs between fuel treatments, suppression, and timber harvest 2) the effects of public wildfire suppression on private fuel management incentives, 3) externality problems when non-timber values-at-risk such as wildland-urban interface property is not accounted for in private fuel management decisions.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
20467
http://purl.umn.edu/12959
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
Washington State University>School of Economic Sciences>Working Papers
Working Paper 2005-7
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| Formato: |
28
application/pdf
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