Investigating intended evacuation from wildfires in the wildland-urban interface: Application of a bivariate probit model

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 415-423

  Mozumder, Pallab ^a   Raheem, Nejem ^b   Talberth, John ^c   Berrens, Robert P ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c Center for Sustainable Economy   (United States)

Author keywords

Evacuation; Wildfire; Wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

ALBUQUERQUE , NEW MEXICO; BIVARIATE; COMMUNITY PLANNERS; DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES; ELSEVIER (CO); MAIL SURVEYS; PROBABILITY MODELING; PROBIT MODELS; WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE (WUI);

DECISION MAKING; FIRES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RISK ANALYSIS; RISKS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

RISK PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 45849131991     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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