Factors influencing large wildland fire suppression expenditures

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 650-659

  Liang, Jingjing ^a   Calkin, Dave E ^b   Gebert, Krista M ^b   Venn, Tyron J ^c   Silverstein, Robin P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b USDA Forest Service Forestry Science Lab   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

cost containment; fire economics; geostatistics; hierarchical partitioning; hypothesis test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858733427     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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