Michael Hand, PhD
Former Employee
Research Economist
Treesearch Publications
- Lorie Srivastava, Michael Hand, John B. Kim, José J. Sánchez, Frank Lupi, Cloé Garnache, Raymond J. Drapek, James F. Quinn. 2020. How will climate change affect the provision and value of water from public lands in Southern California through the 21st century?
- Michael Hand, Lara Roman, Dexter H. Locke, Erica Smith Fichman. 2019. Phone-call reminders narrow the intention-action gap by increasing follow-through for a residential tree giveaway program
- Hari Katuwal, Michael Hand, Matthew P. Thompson, Crystal S. Stonesifer, Dave E. Calkin. 2018. Predict and attack (or don’t): An econometric approach to large wildfire early detection and suppression effectiveness
- Michael Hand, Henry Eichman, F. Jack Triepke, Delilah Jaworski. 2018. Socioeconomic vulnerability to ecological changes to national forests and grasslands in the Southwest
- Matthew P. Thompson, Christopher J. Lauer, Dave E. Calkin, Jon Rieck, Crystal S. Stonesifer, Michael Hand. 2018. Wildfire response performance measurement: Current and future directions
- Michael Hand, Jordan W. Smith, David L. Peterson, Nancy A. Brunswick, Carol P. Brown. 2018. Effects of climate change on outdoor recreation [Chapter 10]
- Michael Hand, Megan Lawson. 2018. Effects of climate change on recreation in the Northern Rockies Region [Chapter 10]
- Michael Hand, Hari Katuwal, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson. 2017. The influence of incident management teams on the deployment of wildfire suppression resources
- Crystal S. Stonesifer, Dave E. Calkin, Michael Hand. 2017. Federal fire managers' perceptions of the importance, scarcity and substitutability of suppression resources
- Matthew P. Thompson, Francisco Rodriguez y Silva, Dave E. Calkin, Michael Hand. 2017. A review of challenges to determining and demonstrating efficiency of large fire management
- German M. Izon, Michael Hand, Daniel W. Mccollum, Jennifer A. Thacher, Robert P. Berrens. 2016. Proximity to natural amenities: A seemingly unrelated hedonic regression model with spatial durbin and spatial error processes
- Matthew P. Thompson, Patrick Freeborn, Jon Rieck, Dave E. Calkin, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Mark A. Cochrane, Michael Hand. 2016. Quantifying the influence of previously burned areas on suppression effectiveness and avoided exposure: A case study of the Las Conchas Fire
- Michael Hand, Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin. 2016. Examining heterogeneity and wildfire management expenditures using spatially and temporally descriptive data
- Hari Katuwal, Dave E. Calkin, Michael Hand. 2016. Production and efficiency of large wildland fire suppression effort: A stochastic frontier analysis
- Matthew P. Thompson, Jessica R. Haas, Mark A. Finney, Dave E. Calkin, Michael Hand, Mark J. Browne, Martin Halek, Karen C. Short, Isaac C. Grenfell. 2015. Development and application of a probabilistic method for wildfire suppression cost modeling
- Yufang Jin, Michael L. Goulden, Nicolas Faivre, Sander Veraverbeke, Fengpeng Sun, Alex Hall, Michael Hand, Simon Hook, James T. Randerson. 2015. Identification of two distinct fire regimes in Southern California: implications for economic impact and future change
- Michael Hand, Matthew J. Wibbenmeyer, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson. 2015. Risk preferences, probability weighting, and strategy tradeoffs in wildfire management
- Michael Hand, Krista M. Gebert, Jingjing Liang, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson, Mo Zhou. 2014. Economics of wildfire management: The development and application of suppression expenditure models
- Steven Wallander, Marcel Aillery, Daniel Hellerstein, Michael Hand. 2013. The role of conservation programs in drought risk adaptation
- Matthew P. Thompson, Michael Hand, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Nicole M. Vaillant, Darek Nalle. 2013. Hazardous fuel treatments, suppression cost impacts, and risk mitigation
- Matthew J. Wibbenmeyer, Michael Hand, Dave E. Calkin, Tyron J. Venn, Matthew P. Thompson. 2013. Risk preferences in strategic wildfire decision making: A choice experiment with U.S. wildfire managers
- Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin, Mark A. Finney, Krista Gebert, Michael Hand. 2013. A risk-based approach to wildland fire budgetary planning
- Michael Hand, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew Wibbenmeyer. 2012. Preliminary results from a survey of U.S. Forest Service wildfire managers' attitudes toward aviation personnel exposure and risk
- German N. Izon, Michael Hand, Matias Fontenla, Robert P. Berrens. 2010. The economic value of protecting Inventoried Roadless Areas: A spatial hedonic price study in New Mexico
- Michael Hand, Jennifer A. Thacher, Daniel W. McCollum, Robert P. Berrens. 2008. Intra-regional amenities, wages, and home prices: The role of forests in the Southwest
- Michael Hand, Jennifer A. Thacher, Daniel R. McCollum, Robert P. Berrens. 2008. Forest amenities and location choice in the Southwest
- University of New Mexico, Ph.D., Economics, 2007
- University of New Mexico, M.S., Economics, 2005
- University of Minnesota, B.S., Human Resources and Industrial Relations, 2000
Last updated March 10, 2026