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The Economic Value of Fuel Treatments: A Review of the Recent Literature for Fuel Treatment Planning
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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Contrasting the efficiency of landscape versus community protection fuel treatment strategies to reduce wildfire exposure and risk
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 Fiscal Burden of Wildfires: State Expenditures and Funding Mechanisms for Wildfire Suppression in the Western U.S. and Implications for Federal Policy
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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Designing forest restoration projects to optimize the application of broadcast burning
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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Social Considerations: Health, Economics, and Risk Communication
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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The costs and costs avoided from wildfire fire management—a conceptual framework for a value of information analysis
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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A bioeconomic projection of climate-induced wildfire risk in the forest sector
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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Societal benefits from wildfire mitigation activities through payments for watershed services: insights from Colorado
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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