Proceedings of the third international symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: common problems and approaches

Abstract

These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the federal and state levels in the United States as well as agencies in the international community. The topics discussed at the symposium included regional, national, and global vision of forest fires: common problems and approaches, theory and models for strategic fire planning, economic analysis and modeling for fire management, forest fires and sustainable forest management, public policies and forest management, hazardous fuels treatment, wildland fire use and fire suppression activities, examples of fire management plans and strategic fire resource allocation, and a round table on the role of international organizations in forest fire solutions. Representatives from international organizations with fire protection responsibilities in 12 countries presented and discussed their experiences on the same issues. Thirty-six invited and contributed papers and 18 posters were presented at the symposium that described the issues and presented state-of-the-art techniques to address technical issues on fire economics, planning, and policy currently faced by land and fire managers.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the third international symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: common problems and approaches

• Mapping tradeoffs in values at risk at the interface between wilderness and non-wilderness lands
• Seasonal predictions for wildland fire severity
• Do repeated wildfires change homebuyers' demand for homes in high-risk areas?
• A mixed logit model of homeowner preferences for wildfire hazard reduction
• Willingness-to-pay function for two fuel treatments to reduce wildfire acreage burned: A scope test and comparison of white and hispanic households
• Effects of risk attitudes on extended attack fire management decisionmaking
• What ignited Forest Service interest in nonmarket valuation in fire economics?
• Decision modeling for fire incident analysis
• A GIS-based framework for evaluating investments in fire management: Spatial allocation of recreation values
• Modeling fire behavior on tropical islands with high-resolution weather data

Citation

González-Cabán, Armando. 2009. Proceedings of the third international symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: common problems and approaches. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-227 (English). Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 395 p.