Benefits of the fire mitigation ecosystem service in The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia, USA

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 203, Issue , 2017, Pages 375-382

  Parthum, Bryan ^a   Pindilli, Emily ^a   Hogan, Dianna ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Fire mitigation; Geospatial information; Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge; Human health; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GIS; PEATLAND; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR; TOURISM; WILDFIRE;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE PROTECTION; HUMAN; PEATLAND; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RECREATION; TOURISM; VIRGINIA; WILDLIFE; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; WETLAND;

GREAT DISMAL SWAMP; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; HUMANS; VIRGINIA; WETLANDS;

EID: 85027992842     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.08.018     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Al-Saadi, J., Szykman, J., Pierce, R.B., Kittaka, C., Neil, D., Chu, D.A., Remer, L., Gumley, L., Prins, E., Weinstock, L., Macdonald, C., Wayland, R., Dimmick, F., Fishman, J., Improving national air quality forecasts with satellite aerosol observations. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 86 (2005), 1249–1261, 10.1175/bams-86-9-1249.
2. Blake, D., Hinwood, A., Horwitz, P., Peat fires and air quality: volatile organic compounds and particulates. Chemosphere 76 (2009), 419–423, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.03.047.
3. Boyouk, N., Léon, J.-F., Delbarre, H., Podvin, T., Deroo, C., Impact of the mixing boundary layer on the relationship between PM2.5 and aerosol optical thickness. Atmos. Environ. 44 (2010), 271–277, 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.06.053.
4. Braga, A.C., Zanobetti, A., Schwartz, J., The lag structure between particulate air pollution and respiratory and cardiovascular deaths in 10 US cities. J. Occup. Environ. Med. 43 (2001), 927–933, 10.1097/00043764-200111000-00001.
5. Bureau of Labor Statistics, year. Modeled Wage Estimates. Available at: https://www.bls.gov/data/#wages.
6. Chestnut, L.G., Thayer, M.A., Lazo, J.K., Eeden, S.K., The economic value of preventing respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations. Contemp. Econ. Policy 24 (2006), 127–143, 10.1093/cep/byj007.
7. Dickie, M., Messman, V.L., Parental altruism and the value of avoiding acute illness: are kids worth more than parents?. J. Environ. Econ. Manag. 48 (2004), 1146–1174, 10.1016/j.jeem.2003.12.005.
8. Frost, C.C., Historical Overview of Atlantic White-cedar in the Carolinas. A.D. Laderman, Atlantic White-cedar Wetlands. 1987, Westview Press, 257–263.
9. Geron, C., Hays, M., Air emissions from organic soil burning on the coastal plain of North Carolina. Atmos. Environ. 64 (2013), 192–199, 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.09.065.
10. Hanemann, M., Kanninen, B., The statistical analysis of discrete-response CV data. Valuing Environ. Prefer., 2001, 10.1093/0199248915.003.0011 302–441.
11. Hinwood, A.L., Rodriguez, C.M., Potential health impacts associated with peat smoke: a review. J. R. Soc. West. Aust. 88 (2005), 133–138.
12. Johnston, F., Henderson, S., Chen, Y., Randerson, J., Marlier, M., DeFries, R., Kinney, P., Bowman, D., Brauer, M., Estimated global mortality attributable to smoke from landscape fires. Environ. Health Perspect. 120:5 (2012), 659–701, 10.1289/ehp.1104422.
13. Johnston, F., Purdie, S., Jalaludin, B., Martin, K., Henderson, S., Morgan, G., Air pollution events from forest fires and emergency department attendances in Sydney, Australia 1996-2007: a case-crossover analysis. Environ. Health, 2014(13), 2014, 105, 10.1186/1476-069X-13-105.
14. Joseph, A., Sawant, A., Srivastava, A., PM10 and its impacts on health - a case study in Mumbai. Int. J. Environ. Health Res. 13 (2003), 207–214, 10.1080/0960312031000098107.
15. Kochi, I., Champ, P.A., Loomis, J.B., Donovan, G.H., Valuing morbidity effects of wildfire smoke exposure from the 2007 Southern California wildfires. J. For. Econ. 25 (2016), 29–54, 10.1016/j.jfe.2016.07.002.
16. Kochi, I., Donovan, G.H., Champ, P.A., Loomis, J.B., The economic cost of adverse health effects from wildfire-smoke exposure: a review. Int. J. Wildland Fire, 19, 2010, 803, 10.1071/wf09077.
17. Laderman, Aimlee D., Brody, Michael, Pendleton, Edward, The Ecology of Atlantic White Cedar Wetlands: a Community Profile., 1989, U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Research Center, Washington, D.C. 114pp. Biological Report.857.21 http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/techrpt/85-7-21.pdf.
18. Loomis, J., Hanemann, M., Kanninen, B., Wegge, T., Willingness to pay to protect wetlands and reduce wildlife contamination from agricultural drainage. Econ. Manag. Water Drain. Agric., 1991, 411–429, 10.1007/978-1-4615-4028-1_21.
19. Moeltner, K., Kim, M.-K., Zhu, E., Yang, W., Wildfire smoke and health impacts: a closer look at fire attributes and their marginal effects. J. Environ. Econ. Manag. 66 (2013), 476–496, 10.1016/j.jeem.2013.09.004.
20. Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity MTBS, Data Access: Fire Level Geospatial Data. 2014, US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and US Department of Interior, Geological Survey http://mtbs.gov/data/individualfiredata.html/, Accessed date 10 September 2015.
21. Peng, R., Dominici, F., Welty, L.J., A Bayesian hierarchical distributed lag model for estimating the time course of risk of hospitalization associated with particulate matter air pollution. J. R. Stat. Soc. Ser. C Appl.(Stat.) 58 (2009), 3–24, 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2008.00640.x.
22. Pope, C., Renlund, D., Kfoury, A., May, H., Horne, B., Relation of heart failure hospitalization to exposure to fine particulate air pollution. Am. J. Cardiol. 102 (2008), 1230–1234, 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.06.044.
23. Rappold, A., Stone, S., Cascio, W., Neas, L., Kilaru, V., Carraway, M., Szykman, J., Ising, A., Cleve, W.E., Meredith, J.T., Vaughan-Batten, H., Deyneka, L., Devlin, R.B., Peat bog wildfire smoke exposure in rural North Carolina is associated with cardiopulmonary emergency department visits assessed through syndromic surveillance. Environ. Health Perspect. 119 (2011), 1415–1420, 10.1289/ehp.1003206.
24. Reddy, A., Hawbaker, T., Wurster, F., Zhu, Z., Ward, S., Newcomb, D., Murray, R., Quantifying soil carbon loss and uncertainty from a peatland wildfire using multi-temporal LiDAR. Remote Sens. Environ. 170 (2015), 306–316, 10.1016/j.rse.2015.09.017.
25. Richardson, L.A., Champ, P.A., Loomis, J.B., The hidden cost of wildfires: economic valuation of health effects of wildfire smoke exposure in Southern California. J. For. Econ. 18 (2012), 14–35, 10.1016/j.jfe.2011.05.002.
26. Sleeter, R., Sleeter, B., Williams, B., Hogan, D., Hawbakaer, T., Zhiliang, Z., A carbon balance model for the great dismal swamp ecosystem. Carbon Balance Manag., 12, 2017, 2, 10.1186/s13021-017-0070-4.
27. Tse, K., Chen, L., Tse, M., Zuraw, B., Christiansen, S., Effect of catastrophic wildfires on asthmatic outcomes in obese children: breathing fire. Ann. Allergy, Asthma & Immunol., 114, 2015, 10.1016/j.anai.2015.01.018.
28. U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division. 2010. https://census.gov/.
29. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA AirData archives: https://www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data/download-daily-data.
30. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA, The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act 1990 to 2010. 1999, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.
31. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA, Air Quality Criteria for Particulate Matter. 2004, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.
32. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA, Cost of Illness Handbook. 2007, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC.
33. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA, Air Quality Index, a Guide to Air Quality and Your Health. EPA-456/F-409-002. 2009, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC.
34. Vora, C., Renvall, M., Chao, P., Ferguson, P., Ramsdell, J., How the october 2007 san diego wildfires affected asthmatics. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol., 125, 2010, 10.1016/j.jaci.2009.12.811.
35. Youssouf, H., Liousse, C., Roblou, L., Assamoi, E., Salonen, R., Maesano, C., Banerjee, S., Annesi-Maesano, I., Quantifying wildfires exposure for investigating health-related effects. Atmos. Environ. 97 (2014), 239–251, 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.07.041.