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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Challenges of Accommodating Non-Market Values in Evaluation of Wildfire Suppression in the United States
Autores: | Venn,   Tyron J.; Calkin,   David E.
Data: | 2007-06-27
Ano: | 2007
Palavras-chave: | Non-market valuation; Historic range and variability; Bushfire; Wildfire policy; Wildfire economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Resumo: | Presently, implementing the 2001 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy, which requires fire management priorities to be set on the basis of maximising the market and non-market values to be conserved or enhanced, is extremely challenging because those charged with implementing the policy have limited information about the value that society places on non-market resources at risk. This paper considers the problem of accommodating non-market values affected by wildfire in social benefit-cost analysis. There are substantial gaps in scientific understanding about how the spatial and temporal provision of non-market values are affected by wildfire, and considerable challenges in evaluating social welfare change arising from specific wildfire events. This presents serious impediments to adapting price-based decision-support tools, such as the National Fire Management Analysis System, to meaningfully incorporate non-market values. An alternative decision-support framework is proposed that measures departure from the historic range and variability of ecological conditions for those non-market values that are particularly resistant to price-based analysis.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

26297

http://purl.umn.edu/9903

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

American Agricultural Economics Association&gt;2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon

Selected Paper 175207

Formato:

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