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Living on the edge : economic, institutional and management perspectives on wildfire hazard in the urban interface /
Wildfires are a fact of life throughout many arid and semi-arid regions, such as the American West. With growing population pressures in these regions, human communities are increasingly developing in so-called "urban-wildland interface zones," where severe fire driven ecosystems co-exist...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Elsevier JAI,
2007.
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| Colección: | Advances in the economics of environmental resources ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Wildfires are a fact of life throughout many arid and semi-arid regions, such as the American West. With growing population pressures in these regions, human communities are increasingly developing in so-called "urban-wildland interface zones," where severe fire driven ecosystems co-exist uneasily with humans and their property. This edited volume addresses this problem-and its potential solutions-from an interdisciplinary perceptive, with contributions from authors in public policy, sociology, economics, ecology, computer modeling, planning, and ecology. The first section of the book address. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0080488110 9780080488110 |
| ISSN: | 1569-3740 ; |