Protect thy neighbor: Investigating the spatial externalities of community wildfire hazard mitigation

Forest Science

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 417-428

  Butry, David ^a   Donovan, Geoffrey ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire economics; Firewise; Risk; Wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; PUBLIC POLICY;

FIRE ECONOMICS; FIREWISE; HAZARD MITIGATIONS; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS; RISK; RISK MITIGATION; RISK REDUCTIONS; SIMULATION APPROACH; SPILLOVER EFFECTS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WILDLAND FUELS; WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE;

FIRES;

EID: 49449112653     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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