Integrating dynamic social systems into assessments of future wildfire losses: An experiential agent-based modeling approach

Environmental Management: Systems, Sustainability and Current Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-42

  Paveglio, Travis B ^a   Prato, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

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