Living on the edge economic, institutional and management perspectives on wildfire hazard in the urban interface /

• Other Authors: Troy, Austin, Kennedy, Roger G.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2007.
• Series: Advances in the economics of environmental resources ; v. 6.
• Subjects: Business & Economics > Economics > General.; Science > General.; Management of land & natural resources.; Fire services.; Environmental economics.; Natural resources.

Wildfires are a fact of life throughout many arid and semi-arid regions, such as the American West. With growing population pressures in these regions, human communities are increasingly developing in so-called urban-wildland interface zones, where severe fire driven ecosystems co-exist uneasily wit...