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Guiding preventative wildland fire mitigation policy and decisions with an economic modeling system.
Stockmann, Keith; Burchfield, James; Calkin, Dave; … - 2010
The protection of private residences from wildland fire produces high levels of cost and safety risk to firefighters, especially with the expanding ex-urban settlement pattern in the wildland urban interface (WUI). Economic information on probable structure losses can help guide efficient...
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Market impacts of hypothetical fuel treatment thinning programs on federal lands in the western United States.
Ince, Peter J.; Spelter, Henry; Skog, Kenneth E.; … - 2008
This paper addresses the economics of forest fuel thinning programs on federal lands in the U.S. West, and presents a model of regional timber and product market impacts. The issue of economics is vital to the debate about fire management, and this paper presents market implications of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429452
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Market impacts of a multiyear mechanical fuel treatment program in the U.S.
Prestemon, Jeffrey P.; Abt, Karen L.; Huggett, Robert J. - 2008
goal program that allocates subsidies according to fire risk and location priorities, given a budget and a feasible, market …
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Historical disturbance regimes as a reference for forest policy in a multiowner province: a simulation experiment.
Thompson, J.R.; Johnson, K.N.; Lennette, M.; Spies, T.A.; … - 2006
Using a landscape simulation model, we examined ecological and economic implications of forest policies designed to emulate the historical fire regime across the 2 x 10⁶ ha Oregon Coast Range. Simulated policies included two variants of the current policy and three policies reflecting aspects...
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Evaluating Alternative Prescribed Burning Policies to Reduce Net Economic Damages from Wildfire.
Mercer, D. Evan; Prestemon, Jeffrey P.; Butry, David T.; … - 2007
We estimate a wildfire risk model with a new measure of wildfire output, intensity-weighted risk and use it in Monte Carlo simulations to estimate welfare changes from alternative prescribed burning policies. Using Volusia County, Florida as a case study, an annual prescribed burning rate of 13%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429538
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The impact of forest service litigation success on administrative appeals of proposed fuels reduction actions.
Laband, David N.; Hussain, Anwar; González-Cabán, … - 2008
In this paper, we explore empirically whether the USDA Forest Service's litigation success rate in each Forest Service region helps explain the persistent regional effects noted by Laband et al. (Laband, D.N., González-Cabán, A., and Hussain, A. (2006). “Factors That Influence...
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Net Benefits of Wildfire Prevention Education Efforts.
Prestemon, Jeffrey P.; Butry, David T.; Abt, Karen L.; … - 2010
, distributing brochures, and making presentations, which are intended to reduce the occurrence of certain kinds of wildfires. A … Poisson model of preventable Florida wildfires from 2002 to 2007 by fire management region was developed. Controlling for … and negative effects on the numbers of wildfires ignited by debris burning, campfire escapes, smoking, and children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429528
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The Relative Impacts of U.S. Bio-Fuel Policies on Fuel-Energy Markets: A Comparative Static Analysis.
Kim, C.S.; Schaible, Glenn; Daberkow, Stan - 2010
Rapidly declining gasoline prices from their record high during the summer of 2008, while ethanol prices remained relatively high, made it difficult for many bio-fuel policy modelers to fully explain the impacts of U.S. bio-fuel policies on fuel prices. Using profit-maximization models for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429472
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Time to burn: Modeling wildland arson as an autoregressive crime function.
Prestemon, J.P.; Butry, D.T. - 2005
Six Poisson autoregressive models of order p [PAR(p)] of daily wildland arson ignition counts are estimated for five locations in Florida (1994-2001). In addition, a fixed effects time-series Poisson model of annual arson counts is estimated for all Florida counties (1995-2001). PAR(p) model...
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Land-use change and carbon sinks: Econometric estimation of the carbon sequestration supply function.
Lubowski, Ruben N.; Plantinga, Andrew J.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2006
If the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it would be necessary to decide whether to include carbon sequestration policies - - -such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation - - -as part of the domestic portfolio of compliance activities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429477