There is no uniform means for assessing social impact from wildland fires beyond statistics
such as home loss, suppression costs and the number of residents evacuated. In this paper …

Understanding the local context that shapes collective response to wildfire risk continues to
be a challenge for scientists and policymakers. This study utilizes and expands on a …

Catastrophic wildfire is an increasingly familiar phenomenon on multiple continents. In the
United States, concerns about uncontrolled, destructive wildfire have prompted some major …

This study estimated homeowner's willingness to pay for public and private fuel reduction
programs in wildland urban interface areas using a choice experiment implemented in …

In this chapter, economic issues related to the creation of forest carbon offset credits are
discussed in the context of forest carbon management strategies. Carbon offsets are defined …

Recent data show that fire concentration is becoming rather predominant in Southern
European areas. Specifically, 2017–2018 were some of the worst years on record for fires in …

The forest area burnt annually in the European Mediterranean region has more than
doubled since the 1970s. In these forests, the main preventive action consists of forest …

Communicating seismic risk to individuals can be difficult for an institution because it
involves providing technical and scientific information, including the low probability of an …

This study presents an economic valuation survey to estimate the social demand of a
convenience sample for undertaking forest management measures aimed at reducing the …

This paper examines how risk preferences and loss aversion affect individual choices
regarding environmental risks, specifically forest wildfires in Poland. We also examine how …