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Online Ressource (4447 KB, 260 S.)
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1. ed.
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Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0080453279
Series Statement:
Advances in the economics of environmental resources 6
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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 at ScienceDirect- 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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Includes bibliographical references
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Front cover; Living on the Edge: Economic, Institutional and Management Perspectives on Wildfire Hazard in the Urban Interface; Copyright page; Contents; Part I: Institutions and Policy; Part II: The Economics of Hazards; Part III: Community Involvement; Part IV: Management and Ecology; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Chapter 1. Introduction: Finding Solutions to the Urban-Wildland Fire Problem in a Changing World; Book Summary; References; Chapter 2. Forest Fire History: Learning from Disaster
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Chapter 3. Fire Policy in the Urban-Wildland Interface in the United States: What are the Issues and Possible Solutions?Chapter 4. Wildfire Hazard Mitigation as ''Safe'' Smart Growth; Chapter 5. Practical and Institutional Constraints on Adopting Wide-Scale Prescribed Burning: Lessons from the Mountains of California; Chapter 6. The Effects of Wildfire Disclosure and Occurrence on Property Markets in California; Chapter 7. Wildfire Underwriting in California: An Industry Perspective
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Chapter 8. A Tale of Two Policies: California Programs that Unintentionally Promote Development in Wildland Fire Hazard ZonesChapter 9. Community Involvement in Wildfire Hazard Mitigation and Management: Community Based Fire Management, Fire Safe Councils and Community Wildfire Protection Plans; Chapter 10. Human Communities and Wildfires: A Review of Research Literature and Issues; Chapter 11. Modeling Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Directions for Planning; Chapter 12. Comments on the Present and Future of Wildland Fire Suppression Decision-Making Processes
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Chapter 13. Climate Variability, Climate Change, and Western Wildfire with Implications for the Urban-Wildland Interface
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0080488110
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780080488110
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Living on the edge Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier JAI, 2007 ISBN 0080453279
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780080453279
Language:
English
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