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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Challenges of Accommodating Non-Market Values in Evaluation of Wildfire Suppression in the United States
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| Autores: |
Venn, Tyron J.
Calkin, David E.
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| Data: |
2007-06-27
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| Ano: |
2007
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| Palavras-chave: |
Non-market valuation
Historic range and variability
Bushfire
Wildfire policy
Wildfire economics
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
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| 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.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
26297
http://purl.umn.edu/9903
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
American Agricultural Economics Association>2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon
Selected Paper 175207
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| Formato: |
32
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