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Public agencies and organizations often deliver financial assistance through cost sharing, in which recipients contribute some portion toward total costs. However, cost sharing might raise equity concerns if it reduces participation among…
Author(s): James R. Meldrum, Patricia A. Champ, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Christopher M. Barth, Abby E. McConnell, Carolyn Wagner, Colleen Donovan
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Although the threat of forest fires is prevalent across the globe, there exists limited empirical evidence on how such environmental disasters influence access and equity in educational outcomes through economic channels. In this article, I combine…
Author(s): Jayash Paudel
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Fire regimes in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems have been greatly altered across the western United States. Broad-scale invasion of non-native annual grasses, climate change, and human activities have accelerated wildfire cycles, increased…
Author(s): Michele R. Crist, Rick Belger, Kirk W. Davies, Dawn Davis, James R. Meldrum, Douglas J. Shinneman, Thomas E. Remington, Justin L. Welty, Kenneth E. Mayer
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Increases in burned forest area across the western United States and southwestern Canada over the last several decades have been partially driven by a rise in vapor pressure deficit (VPD), a measure of the atmosphere's drying power that is…
Author(s): Kristina A. Dahl, John T. Abatzoglou, Carly A. Phillips, J. Pablo Ortiz-Partida, Rachel Licker, L. Delta Merner, Brenda Ekwurzel
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Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to…
Author(s): The Aspen Institute, The Nature Conservancy
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Wildfires usually increase the hydrological and erosive response of forest areas, carrying high environmental, human, cultural, and financial on- and off-site effects. Post-fire soil erosion control measures have been proven effective at mitigating…
Author(s): Antonio Girona-García, Carola Cretella, Cristina Fernández, Peter R. Robichaud, Diana C.S. Vieira, Jan J. Keizer
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This review synthesizes the scientific literature on fuel treatment economics published since 2013 with a focus on its implications for land managers and policy makers. We review the literature on whether fuel treatments are financially viable for…
Author(s): Molly E. Hunter, Michael H. Taylor
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We examined the financial efficiency and effectiveness of landscape versus community protection fuel treatments to reduce structure exposure and loss to wildfire on a large fire-prone area of central Idaho (USA). The study area contained 63,707…
Author(s): Fermin Alcasena-Urdiroz, Alan A. Ager, Pedro Belavenutti, Meg A. Krawchuk, Michelle A. Day
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The number and size of wildfires in the western United States have increased dramatically in the last 30 years. The rising cost of wildfire suppression has become a significant concern for all levels of government, although most attention has been…
Author(s): Chelsea P. McIver, Philip S. Cook, Dennis Becker
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Active forest restoration programs on western US national forests face multiple challenges to meet their broad ecological goals while designing projects that generate sufficient revenue to build and maintain private forest management capacity needed…
Author(s): Pedro Belavenutti, Alan A. Ager, Michelle A. Day, Woodam Chung
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Under the influence of climate change, wildfire regimes are expected to intensify and expand to new areas, increasing threats to natural and socioeconomic assets. We explore the environmental and economic implications for the forest sector of…
Author(s): Miguel Rivière, F. Pimont, Philippe Delacote, Julien Ruffault, Antonello Lobianco, Thomas Opitz, Jean-Luc Dupuy
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Payments for watershed services (PWS) programs are becoming a popular governance approach in the western United States (US) to fund forest management aimed at source water protection. In this paper we conduct a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of one of…
Author(s): Kelly W. Jones, Benjamin Gannon, Thomas Timberlake, James L. Chamberlain, Brett Wolk
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At a fundamental level, smoke from wildland fire is of scientific concern because of its potential adverse effects on human health and social well-being. Although many impacts (e.g., evacuations, property loss) occur primarily in proximity to the…
Author(s): Sarah M. McCaffrey, Ana G. Rappold, Mary Clare Hano, Kathleen M. Navarro, Tanya F. Phillips, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Ambarish Vaidyanathan, Karen L. Abt, Colleen Reid, Jason D. Sacks
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Wildfire is an integral part of many ecosystems, and wildland fires also have the potential for costly impacts to human health and safety, and damage to structures and natural resources. Public land managers use various strategies for managing…
Author(s): Benjamin Simon, Christian S. L. Crowley, Fabiano Franco
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As we learn to sustainably coexist with wildfire, there is an urgent need to improve our understanding of its multidimensional impacts on society. To this end, we undertake a nationwide study to estimate how megafires (wildfires > 100,000 acres…
Author(s): Benjamin A. Jones, Shana McDermott
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Data-driven decision making is the key to providing effective and efficient wildfire protection and sustainable use of natural resources. Due to the complexity of natural systems, management decision(s) require clear justification based on…
Author(s): John S. Hogland, Christopher J. Dunn, James D. Johnston
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We used a value of information approach to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of using satellite imagery as part of the Burn Area Emergency Response (BAER), a US federal program that identifies imminent post-wildfire threats to human life and safety…
Author(s): Richard Bernknopf, Yusuke Kuwayama, Reily Gibson, Jessica Blakely, Bethany Mabee, T. J. Clifford, Brad Quayle, Justin Epting, Terry Hardy, David C. Goodrich
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Climate change and human activities have drastically altered the natural wildfire balance in the Western US and increased population health risks due to exposure to pollutants from fire smoke. Using dynamically downscaled climate model projections,…
Author(s): Jennifer D. Stowell, Cheng-En Yang, Joshua S. Fu, Noah Scovronick, Matthew J. Strickland, Yang Liu
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Recent extreme wildfire seasons in the United States (US) have rekindled policy debates about the underlying drivers and potential role forest management can play in reducing fuels and future wildfire. Most US western national forests face a…
Author(s): Pedro Belavenutti, Woodam Chung, Alan A. Ager
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Recent data show that fire concentration is becoming rather predominant in Southern European areas. Specifically, 2017–2018 were some of the worst years on record for fires in Europe. We conduct a survey among households in order to understand…
Author(s): Maria Alló, Maria L. Loureiro
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