| Title: |
Firefights and Fuel Management: A Nested Rotation Model for Wildfire Risk Mitigation |
| Authors: |
Wildfire Risk Mitigation; M. S. Lanko; J. K. Yoder; M. D. Lanko; Jon Yoder |
| Contributors: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: |
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/12959/1/wp050007.pdf. |
| Publication Year: |
2005 |
| Collection: |
CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: |
Firefights and Fuel Management |
| Description: |
Scientists and policymakers are increasingly aware that wildfire management efforts should be broadened beyond the century-long emphasis on suppression to include more effective efforts at fuel management. Because wildfire risks change over time as vegetation matures, fuel management can be viewed as a timing problem, much like timber harvest itself. We develop a nested rotation model to examine the fuel treatment timing issue in the context of a forest environment with both timber value and non-timber valuesat-risk. Simulations are performed for a ponderosa pine forest and discussed with a focus on three important aspects of wildfire management: 1) the economic tradeoffs between fuel treatments, suppression, and timber harvest 2) the effects of public wildfire suppression on private fuel management incentives, 3) externality problems when non-timber values-at-risk such as wildland-urban interface property is not accounted for in private fuel management decisions. |
| Document Type: |
text |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.562.5102; http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/12959/1/wp050007.pdf |
| Availability: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.562.5102; http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/12959/1/wp050007.pdf |
| Rights: |
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.11AE899A |
| Database: |
BASE |