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1 online resource (325 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Community Perspectives; Chapter 1 Understanding Public Perspectives of Wildfire Risk; Chapter 2 Wildland-Urban Interface Residents' Views on Risk and Attribution; Chapter 3 Collaborative Planning to Reduce Risk; Chapter 4 Addressing the Mitigation Paradox at the Community Level; Chapter 5 Integrative Healing; Part II: Individual Perspectives; Chapter 6 Managing Individual Response; Chapter 7 Making the Decision to Mitigate Risk; Chapter 8 The Effects of Risk Perceptioand Adaptation on Health and Safety Interventions |
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Chapter 9 Diversity in Southwesterners' Views of Forest Service Fire ManagementPart III: Risk-Modeling Perspectives; Chapter 10 Improving Management Decisions; Chapter 11 Integrating Science and Community into Decision Support; Chapter 12 Managing Risk with Chance-Constrained Programming; Chapter 13 Using Economic Experiments in Evaluating Mitigation Decisions; Chapter 14 Valuing the Health Effects of a Prescribed Fire; Epilogue |
| Summary |
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 resea |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Raish, Carol
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Kent, Brian
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| ISBN |
9781936331611 |
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1936331616 |
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