Integrated wildfire risk assessment: Framework development and application on the lewis and clark national forest in Montana, USA

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 329-342

  Thompson, Matthew P ^a   Scott, Joe ^b   Helmbrecht, Don ^c   Calkin, Dave E ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b Pyrologix LLC   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological risk assessment; Environmental management; Expert judgment; Multicriteria decision analysis; Simulation; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880410366     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.1365     Document Type: Article

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