Willingness-to-pay for prescribed fire in the Colorado (USA) wildland urban interface

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 928-937

  Kaval, Pamela ^a   Loomis, John ^b   Seidl, Andy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingent valuation; Controlled burning; Prescribed burning; Public involvement; Wildfire management

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENT VALUATION; CONTROLLED BURNING; PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT; WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT;

FIRES; LAND USE; TAXATION;

FORESTRY;

FOREST FIRES; LAND USE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; TAXES;

EID: 34247480872     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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