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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 …

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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%...

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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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Estimating Suppression Expenditures for Individual Large Wildland Fires.

Gebert, K.M.; Calkin, D.E.; Yoder, J. - 2007

The extreme cost of fighting wildland fires has brought fire suppression expenditures to the forefront of budgetary and policy debate in the United States. Inasmuch as large fires are responsible for the bulk of fire suppression expenditures, understanding fire characteristics that influence...

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Wildfire smoke and health impacts : a closer look at fire attributes and their marginal effects

Moeltner, Klaus; Kim, M.-K.; Zhu, E.; Yang, W. - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 66 (2013) 3, pp. 476-496

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Plans never go according to plan : an empirical analysis of challenges to plans during the 2009 Victoria bushfires

Oloruntoba, Richard - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 80 (2013) 9, pp. 1674-1702

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A decomposition approach for the stochastic asset protection problem

Nuraiman, Dian; Ozlen, Melih; Hearne, John - In: Computers & operations research : and their … 138 (2022), pp. 1-16

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How bad are weather disasters for banks?

Blickle, Kristian; Hamerling, Sarah N.; Morgan, Donald P. - 2021

Not very. We find that weather disasters over the last quarter century had insignificant or small effects on U.S. banks' performance. This stability seems endogenous rather than a mere reflection of federal aid. Disasters increase loan demand, which offsets losses and actually boosts profits at...

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Optimally scheduling public safety power shutoffs

Lesage-Landry, Antoine; Pellerin, Félix; Taylor, … - 2022

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Evaluating wildfire exposure : using wellbeing data to estimate and value the impacts of wildfireAuthor links open overlay panel

Johnston, David; Onder, Yasin Kursat; Rahman, Muhammad … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 192 (2021), pp. 782-798

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