Evaluating the Characteristics of Social Vulnerability to Wildfire: Demographics, Perceptions, and Parcel Characteristics

Environmental Management

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 534-548

  Paveglio, Travis B ^a   Prato, Tony ^b   Edgeley, Catrin ^a   Nalle, Darek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Hazard; Risk; Social vulnerability; Vulnerability; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISKS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; HUMAN POPULATION; POTENTIAL EXPOSURE; PROPERTY OWNERS; SOCIAL VULNERABILITY; VULNERABILITY; WILDFIRE; WILDFIRE SIMULATION;

FIRES;

DEMOGRAPHY; GIS; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; PERCEPTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY; WILDFIRE;

EXPOSURE; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POPULATION MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; HOUSING; MONTANA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIVATE SECTOR; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FLATHEAD COUNTY; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

KATHETOSTOMA GIGANTEUM;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER PLANNING; FIRES; HOUSING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTANA; OWNERSHIP; PERCEPTION; PRIVATE SECTOR; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84976299243     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-016-0719-x     Document Type: Article

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