Current Research

My research interest is the valuation of forest ecosystem services and how those values are impacted by changes in vegetation due to natural/man-made disturbances and/or changes in climate conditions. Current research focuses on the economic values people and communities derive from forests, such as recreation, water quality and quantity, and carbon sequestration. Other research interests are fire economics (efficient management of wildfire prevention and suppression efforts) and understanding the social and economic barriers of underrepresented communities to outdoor recreation.

Research Interests

Non-market valuation of ecosystem services
Fire economics
Outdoor recreation

Education

• University of California, Riverside, Ph.D. Environmental Sciences 2014
• Washington State University, M.S. Statistics 2004
• University of California, Irvine, B.A. Economics 2002

Professional Organizations

• Western Forest Economists, Member (2016 - Current)
• International Association of Wildland Fire, Member (2015 - Current)
• IUFRO Working Group 9.04.03 (Ecological Economics), Deputy Coordinator (2014 - Current)
  Involvement includes membership and outreach, development of newsletters, providing and discussing ideas for possible meeting topics for IUFRO sponsor conferences.
• Association of Environmental and Applied Economics (AERE), Member (2010 - Current)
• American Geophysical Union, Member (2017 - 2020)

Awards & Recognition

Featured Publications & Products

• Flores, David ; Sánchez, José . 2020. The changing dynamic of Latinx outdoor recreation on national and state public lands.
• Sanchez, Jose; Baerenklau, Ken; Gonzalez-Caban, Armando. 2016. Valuing hypothetical wildfire impacts with a Kuhn Tucker model of recreation demand.
• Sánchez, José J.; Baerenklau, Kenneth ; Gonzalez-Caban, Armando . 2020. How sensitive are spatial estimates of wilderness recreation values to information about hiking destinations.
• Sánchez, J. ; Loomis, J. ; González-Cabán, A. ; Rideout, D. ; Reich, R. . 2019. Do fuel treatments in U.S. national forests reduce wildfire suppression costs and property damage.
• González-Cabán, Armando; Sánchez, José J. 2017. Minority households willingness to pay for public and private wildfire risk reduction in Florida.
• Holmes , Tom; Gonzalez-Caban, Armando; Loomis, John ; Sanchez, Jose. 2013. The effect of personal experience on choice-based preferences for wildfire protection programs.
• Sánchez, José J.; Loomis, John ; González-Cabán, Armando ; Holmes, Tom . 2019. A comparison of wildland urban interface households WTP for wildfire risk reduction programs in California and Florida.
• Garnache, Cloé; Srivastava, Lorie; Sánchez, José J; Lupi, Frank . 2018. Recreation ecosystem services from chaparral dominated landscapes: a baseline assessment from national forests in Southern California.
• Loomis, John ; Collie, Sam ; González-Cabán, Armando ; Sánchez, José J.; Rideout, Douglas . 2019. Wildfire fuel reduction cost analysis: Statistical modeling and user model for fire specialists in California.
• Benoit, John W.; González-Cabán, Armando; Fujioka, Francis M.; Chen, Shyh-Chin; Sanchez, José J. 2013. Spatial allocation of market and nonmarket values in wildland fire management: A case study.

Publications

• Sanchez, Jose J.; Cerveny, Lee K.; Blahna, Dale J.; Valenzuela, Francisco ; Schlafmann, Mike . 2020. Chapter 3: Recreation opportunities and human connections on public lands: Constraints that limit recreation participation.
• Cerveny, Lee K.; Sánchez, José J.; Helmer, Matthew ; Milnor, Adam . 2020. Chapter 8: Public lands, tourism, and community connections.
• Srivastava, Lorie ; Hand, Michael ; Kim, John ; Sánchez, José J.; Lupi, Frank ; Garnache, Cloé ; Drapek, Raymond J.; Quinn, James F. 2020. How will climate change affect the provision and value of water from public lands in Southern California through the 21st century.
• Loomis, John ; Collie, Sam ; González-Cabán, Armando ; Sánchez, José J.; Rideout, Douglas . 2019. An lisis de Costo de Reducci n de Combustible de Incendios Forestales: Modelado Estad stico y Modelo de Usuario Para Especialistas en Incendios en California.
• González-Cabán, Armando ; Sánchez, José J. 2019. Are there differences between minority households willingness-to-pay for wildfire risk reduction in Florida.
• Loomis, John ; Sánchez, José J.; González-Cabán, Armando ; Rideout, Douglas ; Reich, Robin . 2019. Do fuel treatments reduce wildfire suppression costs and property damages Analysis of suppression costs and property damages in U.S. National Forests.
• González-Cabán, Armando ; Sánchez, José J. 2019. Memorias del quinto simposio internacional sobre pol ticas, planificaci n y econom a de los incendios forestales: servicios ambientales e incendios forestales.
• González-Cabán, Armando ; Sánchez, José J. 2019. Proceedings of the fifth international symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: ecosystem services and wildfires.
• Marcos-Martinez, Raymundo ; Bryan, Brett A.; Schwabe, Kurt A.; Connor, Jeffery D.; Law, Elizabeth A.; Nolan, Martin ; Sánchez, José J. 2019. Projected social costs of CO2 emissions from forest losses far exceed the sequestration benefits of forest gains under global change.
• Sánchez, José J.; Loomis, John ; González-Cabán, Armando ; Holmes, Tom . 2019. Una Comparaci n de la DAP por Programas de Reducci n de Riesgo de Incendios Forestales de los Hogares en la Interfaz Urbana Forestal en California y Florida.
• González-Cabán, Armando ; Sánchez, José J. 2019. Existen Diferencias Entre la Disposici n a Pagar de los Hogares Minoritarios por la Reducci n del Riesgo de Incendios en Florida.
• Loomis, John ; Sánchez, José J.; González-Cabán, Armando ; Rideout, Douglas ; Reich, Robin . 2019. Los Tratamientos de Combustible Reducen los Costos de Supresi n de Incendios Forestales y Da os a la Propiedad An lisis de los Costos de Supresi n y Da os a la Propiedad en los Bosques Nacionales de los Estados Unidos.
• Haase, Sally M.; Sánchez, José; Weise, David R. 2016. Evaluation of standard methods for collecting and processing fuel moisture samples.
• Sánchez, José. 2014. Economics of forest fire management: spatial accounting of costs and benefits.
• González-Cabán, Armando; Holmes, Thomas P.; Loomis, John B.; Sánchez, José J. 2013. Does personal experience affect choice-based preferences for wildfire protection programs.
• Sánchez, José J.; Baerenklau, Ken; González-Cabán, Armando; Schwabe, Kurt. 2013. Economics of forest fire management: Spatial accounting of costs and benefits.
• Moya, Daniel; González-Cabán, Armando; Sánchez, José J.; de la Heras, José. 2013. Recreational use management and wildfires in Southern California: Using GIS and visual landscape simulation models for economic assessment.
• Bengston, David N.; Sanchez, Jose J. 2004. Hispanic American views on the stewardship of federal land management agencies: An exploratory analysis of the Ethnic NewsWatch Database.
• Bengston, David N.; Sanchez, Jose J. 2004. Hispanic American views on the stewardship of federal land management agencies: an exploratory analysis of the Ethnic NewsWatch database.

Research Highlights

Highlight	Title	Year
PSW-2014-106	Benefits and Losses of Wildfires on the San Jacinto Wilderness Forest Service scientists discovered that recently burned landscapes are attractive to forest recreationalists. This information can help fire m ...	2014