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Living on the Edge - Economic, Institutional and Management Perspectives on Wildfire Hazard in the Urban Interface (Hardcover, New)
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Living on the Edge - Economic, Institutional and Management Perspectives on Wildfire Hazard in the Urban Interface (Hardcover, New)
Series: Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources
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Wildfires are a fact of life throughout many arid and semi-arid
regions, such as the American West. With growing population
pressures in these regions, human communities are increasingly
developing in so-called ???urban-wildland interface zones, ???
where severe fire driven ecosystems co-exist uneasily with humans
and their property. This edited volume addresses this problem???and
its potential solutions???from an interdisciplinary perceptive,
with contributions from authors in public policy, sociology,
economics, ecology, computer modeling, planning, and ecology. The
first section of the book addresses institutional and policy
aspects, including chapters on national fire policy in the United
States, local fire planning and policy, smart growth approaches to
planning in fire zones, and institutional roadblocks to fuels
management. The second section deals with economic aspects,
including chapters on the role of information and disclosure of
hazards in real estate markets, methods of underwriting fire
insurance, and the consequences of state-mandated fire insurers of
last resort. The third section deals with community level
involvement in fire management, addressing a wide range of issues
including models of community engagement, criteria for success, and
approaches for institutionalizing this process, both in the US and
abroad. The final section deals with management and ecology and
includes chapters on the predicted effects of climate change on
wildfire activity, new computer modeling tools for mitigating fire
risk, and complex institutional mechanisms behind large-fire
suppression in the US.
Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources is now
available online atScienceDirect ??? full-text online of volumes 3
onwards.
For more information about the Elsevier Book Series on
ScienceDirect Program, please visit:
http: //www.info.sciencedirect.com/bookseries/
*Addresses institutional and policy aspects, economic aspects,
community level involvement in fire management, and the management
and ecology of wildfires
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