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The impact of residential development pattern on wildland fire suppression expenditures.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The impact of residential development pattern on wildland fire suppression expenditures./
Author:	Scofield, Anna M.
Description:	72 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 53-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International53-04(E).
Subject:	Environmental economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1561315
ISBN:	9781321063349

The impact of residential development pattern on wildland fire suppression expenditures.
Scofield, Anna M.

The impact of residential development pattern on wildland fire suppression expenditures. - 72 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 53-04.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wyoming, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The wildland urban interface (WUI) increases wildland fire suppression expenditures and impedes land managers' ability to reduce fire risk. Policies to reduce these WUI impacts are hindered by jurisdictional externalities -- federal agencies are charged with protecting homes from wildland fires, while local governments decide where and how development can occur. Policymakers therefore need an understanding of WUI characteristics that drive firefighting expenditures to develop effective solutions for existing and future WUI development. Despite a growing body of literature indicating that the spatial pattern of development impacts the efficiency and cost of public service provision, the effect of WUI development pattern on fire suppression expenditures has received only cursory treatment in the literature. I address this gap by empirically modeling the relationship between fire suppression expenditures and the spatial pattern of residential development. I use data on 280 fires in the Northern Rockies (CO, MT and WY) to estimate a regression model relating suppression expenditures to fire characteristics, management characteristics, and the spatial pattern of development. I find that the effect of WUI development on suppression expenditures is highly dependent on spatial pattern. Though past research has confirmed that the presence of structures influences expenditures, my results indicate that the effect of development on fire suppression expenditures cannot be accurately assessed without considering the spatial pattern of development. A unit increase in the complexity of development pattern increases expenditures by approximately six percent. The difference in expenditures between fires with dispersed or clustered structures can be as much as $620,000. My results indicate that policies that control the spatial pattern of WUI development can be nearly as effective as policies that completely restrict WUI development.

ISBN: 9781321063349Subjects--Topical Terms:

535179
Environmental economics.

The impact of residential development pattern on wildland fire suppression expenditures.
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