Wildfire Risk: Human Perceptions and Management Implications - Hardcover

 
9781933115511: Wildfire Risk: Human Perceptions and Management Implications
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1933115513 ISBN 13: 9781933115511
Verlag: RFF Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The continuing encroachment of human settlements into fire-prone areas and extreme fire seasons in recent years make it urgent that we better understand both the physical and human dimensions of managing the risk from wildfire. Wildfire Risk follows from our awareness that increasing public knowledge about wildfire hazard does not necessarily lead to appropriate risk reduction behavior. Drawing heavily upon health and risk communication, and risk modeling, the authors advance our understanding of how individuals and communities respond to wildfire hazard. They present results of original research on the social, economic, and psychological factors in responses to risk, discuss how outreach and education can influence behavior, and consider differences among ethnic/racial groups and between genders with regard to values, views, and attitudes about wildfire risk. They explore the role of public participation in risk assessment and mitigation, as well as in planning for evacuation and recovery after fire. Wildfire Risk concludes with a dedicated section on risk-modeling, with perspectives from decision sciences, geography, operations research, psychology, experimental economics, and other social sciences.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Wade E. Martin is a professor of economics at California State University, Long Beach, and is editor of the journal Contemporary Economic Policy.Carol Raish is a research social scientist at the USDA Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research Station Albuquerque Lab. Brian Kent is project leader in Natural Resource Assessment and Analysis at the Rocky MountainResearch Station.

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Verlag
RFF Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1933115513
ISBN 13 
9781933115511
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
310
Herausgeber
Martin Wade E., Raish Carol, Kent Brian
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