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Appendix 2: Risk-based framework and risk case studies. Risk assessment for wildfire in the Western United States
Wildfire is one of the two most significant disturbance agents (the other being insects) in forest ecosystems of the Western United States, and in a warmer climate, will drive changes in forest composition, structure, and function (Dale et al. 2001…
Author(s): David L. Peterson, Jeremy S. Littell
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Managing fire risk in the forests of the U.S. inland Northwest: a classic "wicked problem" in public land policy
In their classic article published in the Journal of Forestry in 1986, Gerald Allen and Ernest Gould stated that the most daunting problems associated with public forest management have a "wicked" element: "Wicked problems share…
Author(s): Matthew S. Carroll, Keith A. Blatner, Patricia J. Cohn, Charles E. Keegan, Todd A. Morgan
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The spatial context of fire: a new approach for predicting fire occurrence
Across North America, decades of fire suppression and recent patterns of human settlement have combined to increase the risks that wildland fires pose to human life, property, and natural resource values. Various methods can be used to reduce fuel…
Author(s): Carol Miller
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Sequential use of simulation and optimization in analysis and planning
Management activities are analyzed at landscape scales employing both simulation and optimization. SIMPPLLE, a stochastic simulation modeling system, is initially applied to assess the risks associated with a specific natural process occurring on…
Author(s): Hans R. Zuuring, Jimmie D. Chew, J. Greg Jones
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