Author: Dean Lueck
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1136520597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law ranging from judicial behaviour to contracts. This book will reflects the first-ever forum for law and economics scholars to apply the analysis and methodologies of their field to the subject of wildfire. The only modern legal work on wildfire, the book brings together leading scholars to consider questions such as: How can public policy address the effects of climate change on wildfire, and wildfire on climate change? Are the environmental and fiscal costs of ex ante prevention measures justified? What are the appropriate levels of prevention and suppression responsibility borne by private, state, and federal actors? Can tort liability provide a solution for realigning the grossly distorted incentives that currently exist for private landowners and government firefighters? Do the existing incentives in wildfire institutions provide incentives for efficient private and collective action and how might they be improved?
Author: Mark Hudson
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1457111551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Most journalists and academics attribute the rise of wildfires in the western United States to the USDA Forest Service's successful fire-elimination policies of the twentieth century. However, in Fire Management in the American West, Mark Hudson argues that although a century of suppression did indeed increase the hazard of wildfire, the responsibility does not lie with the USFS alone. The roots are found in the Forest Service's relationships with other, more powerful elements of society--the timber industry in particular. Drawing on correspondence both between and within the Forest Service and the major timber industry associations, newspaper articles, articles from industry outlets, and policy documents from the late 1800s through the present, Hudson shows how the US forest industry, under the constraint of profitability, pushed the USFS away from private industry regulation and toward fire exclusion, eventually changing national forest policy into little more than fire policy. More recently, the USFS has attempted to move beyond the policy of complete fire suppression. Interviews with public land managers in the Pacific Northwest shed light on the sources of the agency's struggles as it attempts to change the way we understand and relate to fire in the West. Fire Management in the American West will be of great interest to environmentalists, sociologists, fire managers, scientists, and academics and students in environmental history and forestry.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands (2007- )
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 96
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Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 98
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1997-08
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 0788146793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Managing wildland fire in the U.S. is a challenge increasing in complexity & magnitude. The goals & actions presented in this report encourage a proactive approach to wildland fire to reduce its threat. Five major topic areas on the subject are addressed: the role of wildland fire in resource management; the use of wildland fire; preparedness & suppression; wildland/urban interface protection; & coordinated program management. Also presented are the guiding principle that are fundamental to wildland fire management & recommendations for fire management policies. Photos, graphs, & references.
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Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents key social science findings from three National Fire Plan-sponsored research projects. Articles highlight information of likely interest to individuals working to decrease wildfire hazards on both private and public lands. Three general topic areas are addressed: (1) public views and acceptance of fuels management, (2) working with homeowners and communities, and (3) tools that can help us understand social issues.
Author: Marisa Heiling
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages:
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The United States Forest Service is spending increasing amounts of the federal budget fighting wildfires on public lands in the west. However, in reality, the money is not spent protecting the federal lands but protecting adjacent private property known as the wildland/urban interface (WUI). The combination of increased property development in the WUI, historically mismanaged forests that cause fuel build up, and increasingly frequent and intense fires due to climate change have fueled an expensive problem for federal taxpayers. Current strategies to deal with this issue include relying on state and local government codes and ordinances to manage the WUI modeled after the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code (IWUIC) and in collaboration with local organizations. However, without federal resources to implement these laws, communities can opt out of zoning laws altogether preventing public management of the WUI. This article proposes that land in the WUI is managed through conservation easements. The easements can encompass elements of the IWUIC and require certain landscaping and building materials consistent with home ignition zone (HIZ) research. Additionally, conservation easements provide tax incentives to landowners to protect their own land against wildfires instead of spending money protecting the land during a fire, which allows the Forest Service to provide other services to the public. Conservation easements have the flexibility to include strict enforcement regimes through the government, neighbors, and land trusts. As conservation easements grow in popularity, state legislatures may try to involve themselves; the consequences of which are yet unknown.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 6
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