Research Catalog

Title

Wildfire risk : human perceptions and management implications / edited by Wade E. Martin, Carol Raish, and Brian Kent.

Publication

Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Martin, Wade E.
• Raish, Carol.
• Kent, Brian M.

Description

xiv, 310 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Risk perception
• Wildfires > Prevention and control
• Wildfire risk > Management

Note

• "An RFF Press book"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-297) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Hanna J. Cortner -- Part I. Community Perspectives -- 1. Understanding Public Perspectives of Wildfire Risk / Sarah McCaffrey -- 2. Wildland-Urban Interface Residents' Views on Risk and Attribution / Patricia J. Cohn, Daniel R. Williams and Matthew S. Carroll -- 3. Collaborative Planning to Reduce Risk / Victoria Sturtevant and Pamela Jakes -- 4. Addressing the Mitigation Paradox at the Community Level / Toddi A. Steelman -- 5. Integrative Healing: The Importance of Community Collaboration in Postfire Recovery and Prefire Planning / Michele R. Burns, Jonathan G. Taylor and John T. Hogan -- Part II. Individual Perspectives -- 6. Managing Individual Response: Lessons from Public Health Risk Behavioral Research / Terry C. Daniel -- 7. Making the Decision to Mitigate Risk / Ingrid M. Martin, Holly Wise Bender and Carol Raish -- 8. The Effects of Risk Perception and Adaptation on Health and Safety Interventions / Donald G. MacGregor, Melissa Finucane and Armando Gonzalez-Caban -- 9. Diversity in Southwesterners' Views of Forest Service Fire Management / Patricia L. Winter and George T. Cvetkovich -- Part III. Risk-Modeling Perspectives -- 10. Improving Management Decisions / Joseph Arvai, Robin Gregory and Melissa Zaksek -- 11. Integrating Science and Community into Decision Support / Barbara J. Morehouse and Barron J. Orr -- 12. Managing Risk with Chance-Constrained Programming / Michael Severs and Brian Kent -- 13. Using Economic Experiments in Evaluating Mitigation Decisions / Robert P. Berrens, Michael McKee, John Talberth and Michael Jones -- 14. Valuing the Health Effects of a Prescribed Fire / Wade E. Martin, Victor Brajer and Karl Zeller -- Epilogue / Hanna J. Cortner.

ISBN

• 9781933115511 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1933115513 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781933115528 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1933115521 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007018024

OCLC

• ocn131062722
• 131062722
• SCSB-5382701

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries