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A Microeconomic Analysis of Wildfire Suppression Programs in the Western United States

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Rossi, David J.

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This dissertation studies the microeconomics of forest fire suppression programs. It starts with an inquiry into the causes of increasing shares of public land management budgets devoted to wildland fire suppression in lieu of hazardous fuel reduction or other pre-fire risk mitigation programs. The first two chapters consider competing economic...

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increasing (Lueck and Yoder, 2013). While climatic factors contribute to increasing fire severity (van
Beaches, Wine, and Weed: Economic Implications of Land Use Change in Oregon

Creator:

Beasley, W. Jason

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The economic analysis of land use decisions provides insight into incentive structures faced by landowners and the impacts of landowner decisions on others. Qualifying and quantifying these incentives and impacts offers insight into the relevant characteristics of decision-making. In turn, this allows the researcher to model and predict land use...

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Advances in Modeling Natural Resource Management under Uncertainty : Forest Mortality, Policy Design, and the Value of Information

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Sloggy, Matthew R.

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Advancing the understanding of natural resource management is an important step in mitigating the effects of human activity on the environment, and ensuring efficient outcomes for many sectors of the economy. As humanity’s role in the natural world becomes better understood, the importance of interdisciplinary modeling has grown in leaps...

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role in determining the ecological impacts of harvest (Van Kooten et al., 1995). The forest sector