Not Getting Burned: The Importance of Fire Prevention in Forest Management.

We extend existing stand-level models of forest landowner behavior in the presence of fire risk to include the level and timing of fuel management activities. These activities reduce losses if a stand ignites. Based on simulations, we find the standard result that fire risk reduces the optimal rotat...

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Publicado en:Land Economics Vol. 81; no. 2; pp. 284 - 303
Autores principales: Amacher, Gregory S., Malik, Arun S., Haight, Robert G.
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Publicado: University of Wisconsin Press May 2005
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