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In the United States, increased wildland fire activity over the last 15 years has resulted in increased pressure to balance the cost, benefits, and risks of wildfire management. Amid increased public scrutiny and a highly variable wildland fire environment, a substantial body of research has developed to study factors affecting the cost-effectiveness of wildfire management activities. This book examines the state-of-the-art in the economics of wildfire management. The introductory chapter presents the broad goal of the book: to take stock of research to-date on the economics of wildfire management and examine a way forward for answering remaining research questions. Subsequent chapters review existing research, present new empirical analyses of fire management expenditures, and examine potential applications of expenditure models for decision making.
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In this volume the term “expenditures” refers to direct monetary outlays for the purposes of managing wildfire incidents. “Costs” refer more broadly to the negative impacts associated with fire management, which may include direct expenditures on incident management. A full accounting of costs would include a number of non-expenditure impacts that are outside of the scope of this book (see, for example, Butry et al. 2001; Kochi et al. 2012). In most cases this book will refer to “expenditures” unless the broader term is warranted or doing so would create confusion with literature referenced in the text.
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Hand, M.S., Gebert, K.M., Liang, J., Calkin, D.E., Thompson, M.P., Zhou, M. (2014). Introduction: A New Look at Wildfire Management Expenditures. In: Economics of Wildfire Management. SpringerBriefs in Fire. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0578-2_1
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