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Title: Proceedings of the second international symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: a global view

Author: González-Cabán, Armando, tech. coord.

Date: 2008

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-208, Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 720 p

Station ID: GTR-PSW-208

Description: These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the federal and state levels in the United States as well as agencies in the international community. The topics discussed at the symposium included fire economics, theoretical and methodological approaches to strategic fire planning, wildland fires and sustainable forest management, incorporation of market and nonmarket economic evaluation techniques into fire management planning, public policies and wildland fires, tradeoffs between fuel treatment and suppression activities, and global and regional vision of the wildland fire problem. Representatives from international organizations with fire protection responsibilities in 14 countries presented and discussed their experiences on the same issues. Fifty-five invited and contributed papers and 20 posters were presented at the symposium that described the issues and presented state-of-the-art techniques to address technical issues on fire economics, planning, and policy currently faced by land and fire managers.

Key Words: fire economics, fuel treatment tradeoffs, nonmarket valuation, public policy and wildland fires, strategic fire planning, sustainable forest management

Front Matter and Table of Contents

Front Matter 1.1 MB

Contents

Findings and Conclusions of the Second International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy: A Global View 283 KB
Armando González-Cabán

Approach to Reaching an Optimum Budget for Forest Fire Prevention, and its Application to the Forest Areas of Mediterranean Spain 589 KB
Estbeban Castellano, Carolina Alum, Carolina Rodriquez

An Economic Assessment of Fuel Treatments at the Landscape Level 540 KB
Hayley Hesseln, Don Helmbrecht, Janet Sullivan, Greg Jones, Keven Hyde

Social Impact of Large-Scale Forest Fires 764 KB
José Ma Rábade, Carmen Aragoneses

Mechanisms for the Internalization of the Environmental Benefits of Forests and Their Application to Forest Fire Prevention 721 KB
Ignacio Elorrieta, Concepción Rey

An Approach to a System for Monitoring the Impact of Extensive Forest Fires in Spain 818 KB
Ricardo Vélez, Balbina López

Forest Fire Prevention Plans in National Parks: Ordesa National Park and Monte Perdido 1.2 MB
Basilio Rada, Luis Marquina

Integral Plan for the Prevention of Forest Fires in Spain in the Case of the Community of Valencia 1.1 MB
Javier Gómez, Ángel Guzmán

Program for Postfire Monitoring and Control in the Forest Ecosystems of Moratalle (Murcia, Spain) 1 MB
Juan de Dios Cabezas, Remigio Masia

Development of Measures for Self-Protection Against Forest Fires: Application in Highly Vulnerable Installations 631 KB
Francisco Sanz de Julián, Balvina López García

Macroeconimic Analysis of Investment in Fire Protection Using Social Accounting Matrixes: Application to the Navarre Region 451 KB
Marcelino Pellitero, Patricia Suárez

Integrated Management System for Forest Fire Prevention: Its Application in the Valencia Region (Spain) 476 KB
Luis Velasco, Jorge Suárez

Fire and Economics: Understanding the Amazonia’s Fire Arch 2.2 MB
Tatiana Schor, Arnaldo Carneiro Filho, Carlos de Almeida Toledo

The Influence of Ethnicity and Language on Economic Benefits of Forest Fire Prevention From Prescribed Burning and Mechanical Fuel Reduction Methods 781 KB
John Loomis, Lindsey Ellingson, Armando González-Cabán, Hayley Hesseln

Legal Frameworks for Forest Fire Management: International Agreements and National Legislation 612 KB
Mike Jurvélius

Methodological Proposal for Analyzing the Vulnerability and Potential Gravity of Forest Fires Within the Framework of Civil Protection 579 KB
Carmen Aragoneses, José Ma Rábade

Economic Analysis in the Control of Fuel Loading in Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems: Prescribed Burning, an Alternative to Mechnical Methods 573 KB
Francisco Rodríguez y Silva

A Model for the Financial Assessment of Forest Fire Prevention Plans in Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems 1.4 MB
Francisco Rodríguez y Silva

United States Forest Service (USFS) NRIS-INFORMS-Fire/Fuels Analysis Tool 388 KB
David S. Martinez

Fire History in the Mixed Pine-Oak Forest on the National Park Chipinque, in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico 499 KB
Marco Aurelio González Tagle, Javier Jiménez Pérez, Klaus von Gadow

Who Should Be Responsible for Forest Fires? Lessons From the Greek Experience 593 KB
Gavriil Xanthopoulos

Control of Forest Fires as Part of the Spanish Forestry Plan 410 KB
Ricardo Vélez Muñoz

Europe: Development and Fire 421 KB
Ricardo Vélez Muñoz

Frameworks for Representing Large-Fire Decision Processes and Outcomes 675 KB
Donald G. MacGregor, Armando González-Cabán

Using GIS to Test the Relationship Between Homeowner Willingness to Pay to Reduce Wildfire and Landscape Characteristics 412 KB
Pamela Kaval, John Loomis

Costs and Benefits of Reducing Sediment Production From Wildfires Through Prescribed Burning: The Kinneloa Fire Case Study 561 KB
Armando González-Cabán, Peter Wohlgemuth, John B. Loomis, David R. Weise

Managing Fire Risk in the Forests of the U.S. Inland Northwest: A Classic “Wicked Problem” in Public Land Policy 689 KB
Matthew S. Carroll, Keith A. Blatner, Patricia J. Cohn, Charles E. Keegan III, Todd Morgan

Estimation of Risk Factors of Human Ignition of Fires in Spain by Means of Logistic Regression 1.8 MB
Jesús Martínez, Emilio Chuvieco, Pilar Martín

Socioeconomic Value of Fire Weather Service: A Case Study of Fire Weather Information for Prescribed Burning 500 KB
Don Gunasekera, Graham Mills, Tony Bannister

Reconstruction of Forest Areas Using Geostatistics as an Aid in the Evaluation of Burned Areas 1.9 MB
J. Germán Flores G., David A. Moreno G., Francisco Rincón R.

Fuel Treatment Timing and Suppression for Wildfire Risk Mitigation 450 KB
Mariam Lankoande, Jonathan Yoder

Wildland-Urban Interface Analyses for Fire Management Planning 1.3 MB
Raffaella Marzano, Andrea Camia, Giovanni Bovio

Three Great Myths of Wildland Fire Management 486 KB
Douglas B. Rideout, Pamela S. Ziesler

Defining Initial Response: Integrating Fire Use With Initial Attack 677 KB
Stephen J. Botti, Douglas B. Rideout, Andrew G. Kirsch

The Effect of the Wildland-Urban Interface on Prescribed Burning Costs in the Pacific Northwestern United States 463 KB
Hayley Hesseln, Alison H. Berry

Policy Incentives for Wildland Fire Management in the United States 507 KB
Sara E. Jensen

Fire Management Planning—Developing Strategies and Setting Measureable Objectives for Adaptive Management 764 KB
S.L. Robertson, H. Roose

Fire Program Analysis System—Preparedness Module 959 KB
H. Roose, L. Ballard, J. Manley, N. Saleen, S. Harbert

A Model for Dynamic Programming to Back Strategic Planning for Fire Management in Chile 958 KB
Patricia Pedernera A., Miguel Castillo S., Guillermo Julio A.

Comparison of Video and Phone Interview Survey Administration in Determining Public Support and Willingness to Pay for Prescribed Burning in California 473 KB
John Loomis, Julie Miller, Armando González-Cabán, Joseph Champ

Forest Fire Spreading 1.5 MB
Joseph Romanovsky, Vassili Shikin, Yuri Shur

Optimal Maneuvering of Forest Fire Protection Resources 325 KB
Joseph Romanovsky, Vladimir Sapronov, Yuri Shur

Followup to Large-Scale Forest Fires to Aid in Evaluating Economic Losses 629 KB
Miguel Castillo S., Patricio Pedernera A., Guillermo Julio A.

Fire Management Plan at Regional Scale in an Alpine Fire-Prone Area (Valle D’Aosta Region–Italy) 933 KB
Giovanni Bovio, Elisa Guglielmet, Andrea Camia

Comparative Analysis Between the Forest Fire Prevention Systems in Sicily (Italy) and Andalusia (Spain) 415 KB
Clara Quesada Fernández

Effects of Forest Fire Protection on Plant Diversity in a Tropical Deciduous Dipterocarp-Oak Forest, Thailand 560 KB
Shesh Kanta Kafle

Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Risk Management: WARM Project 532 KB
David Caballero

Evaluting Tradeoffs Between Wildfires and Fuel Treatments 472 KB
Philip N. Omi

An Examination of State and Local Fire Protection Programs in the Wildland-Urban Interface 487 KB
Margaret Reams, Terry Haines, Cheryl Renner

The National Wildfire Mitigation Programs Database: State, County, and Local Efforts to Reduce Wildfire Risk 378 KB
Terry Haines, Cheryl Renner, Margaret Reams, James Granskog

An Evaluation of the Economic Tradeoffs of Fuel Treatment and Fire Suppression in the Angeles National Forest Using the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model 719 KB
Mark D. Schaaf, Marc A. Wiitala, Maarten D. Schreuder, David R. Weise

Forest Harvest Can Increase Subsequent Forest Fire Severity 1.2 MB
Carter Stone, Andrew Hudak, Panelope Morgan

An Accounting System for Use in Evaluating the Commercial and Environmental Effects of Public Spending on the Mitigation of Forest Fires in the Mediterranean Area 446 KB
Pablo Campos-Palacín, José Luis Oviedo-Pro, Alejandro Caparrós-Gass

Fire Mediterranean Macchia: A Case Study in Southwest Sardinia 322 KB
Ignazio Camarda, Guiseppe Brundu, Vincenzo Satta

The Increase in Forest Fires in Natural Woodland and Forestry Plantations in Chile 628 KB
Eduardo Peña-Fernández, Luis Valenzuela-Palma

Practical Application of a Daily Prediction Model for the Occurrence of Human-Caused Forest Fires in Catalonia 1.2 MB
Cristina Vega-García, Christian Ortiz Ruiz, Raquel Canet Castellà, KB
Inés Sánchez Bosch, Daniel Queralt Creus

Technical and Economic Assessment of the Use of Aerial Resources in Fighting Forest Fires 657 KB
J.C. Mérida, J.J. Gallar, E. García, E. Primo

A Fast Method for Calculating Emergency Response Times Using Travel Resistance Surfaces 442 KB
David C. Hatfield, Marc R. Wiitala, Andrew E. Wilson, Eric J. Levy

Preliminary Development of a Probability-Based Fire Severity Modeling System for California Forests 557 KB
John W. Benoit, Haiganoush K. Preisler

An Integrated System for Static and Dynamic Risk Evaluation at a National Level 672 KB
Paolo Fiorucci, Francesco Gaetani, Riccardo Minciardi

Actions of the International Association for Mediterranean Forests to Prevent Forest Fires 433 KB
International Association for Mediterranean Forests

The Economics of Interface Wildfires 481 KB
John Handmer, Beth Proudley

Effects of Liability and Regulation on Prescribed Fire Risk in the United States 517 KB
Jonathan Yoder

Tradeoffs Between Fire and Habitat Management in a Forest Reserve 607 KB
S. Hummel, D. Calkin, R.J. Barbour

Managing Efforts to Prevent Forest Fires in South America 621 KB
Guillermo Julio-Alvear

Remfiresat, Real Time Emergency Management for Forest Fire Services via Satellite 2.1 MB
Jesús Gonzalo, Susana Martínez, Gonzalo Martin

Towards Developing a Global Wildland Fire Strategy 1.9 MB
Johann G. Goldammer

Estimating the Impact of Proximity of Houses on Wildfire Suppression Costs in Oregon and Washington 336 KB
Geoffrey H. Donovan, Peter Noordijk, Volker Radeloff

Wildfire Initial Response Assessment System: A Tool for Fire Preparedness Planning 362 KB
Marc R. Wiitala, Andy E. Wilson

Forest Fires in Mexico and Central América 491 KB
Roberto Martinez Domínquez, Dante Arturo Rodríguez Trejo

Back Cover 598 KB

Citation

González-Cabán, Armando, tech. coord. 2008. Proceedings of the second international symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: a global view. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-208, Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 720 p.