Land Use Planning and Wildfire: Development Policies Influence Future Probability of Housing Loss

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Syphard, Alexandra D ^a   Bar Massada, Avi ^b   Butsic, Van ^c   Keeley, Jon E ^d,e  

^a Conservation Biology Institute ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FIRE; FOGO SELVAGEM; HOUSING; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; PROBABILITY; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CALIFORNIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FIRES; HOUSING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

EID: 84881531078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071708     Document Type: Article

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