Fire in the wildland-urban interface

Urban-Rural Interfaces: Linking People and Nature

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 287-303

  Evan Mercer, D ^a   Zipperer, Wayne ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community action programs; Ecological effects; Fuels management; Home construction; Socioeconomic effects; Wildfire management; Wildfire risk assessment; wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994811226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2136/2012.urban-rural.c16     Document Type: Chapter

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