Regional governance and hazard information: The role of co-ordinated risk assessment and regional spatial accounting in wildfire hazard mitigation

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-21

  Muller, Brian H ^a   Yin, Li ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado; Governance; Hazard; Planning; Regional; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

FIRE MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LAND USE PLANNING; MITIGATION; REGIONAL PLANNING; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN SERVICE; WILDFIRE;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74349113779     PISSN: 09640568     EISSN: 13600559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09640560903414639     Document Type: Article

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