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Filtering by: Subject Flood control -- Economic aspects Advisor Albers, Heidi J. Subject Wildfires -- California -- Prevention and control

Initial attack fire suppression, spatial resource allocation, and fire prevention policy in California, the United States, and the Republic of Korea

Creator:

Lee, Yohan

Abstract:

In this dissertation, I combined a scenario-based, standard-response optimization model with a stochastic simulation model to improve the efficiency of the deployment of initial attack firefighting resources on wildland fires in California and the Republic of Korea. The optimization model minimizes the expected number of fires that do not receive...

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Dissertation

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-economic value of a potential fire location. Furthermore, I investigated the tradeoff between the number