Section I. The Economics and Ecology of Forest
Disturbances ......................................... 1
Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Economics of Forest
Disturbance .......................................... 3
Thomas P.Holmes, Jeffrey P.Prestemon,
Karen L.Abt
Chapter 2. Forest Economics, Natural Disturbances and
the New Ecology ..................................... 15
Thomas P.Holmes, Robert J.Huggett, Jr.,
and John M.Pye
Section II. Forest Disturbance Processes ....................... 33
Chapter 3. Natural Disturbance Production Functions ............ 35
Jeffrey P.Prestemon, D.Evan Mercer,
and John M.Pye
Chapter 4. Statistical Analysis of Large Wildfires ............. 59
Thomas P.Holmes, Robert J.Huggett,
Jr., and Anthony J.Westerling
Chapter 5. The Production of Large and Small Wildfires ......... 79
David T.Butry, Marcia Gumpertz, and
Marc G.Genton
Chapter 6. Climatology for Wildfire Management ................ 107
Anthony L.Westerling
Chapter 7. Wildland Arson Management .......................... 123
Jeffrey P.Prestemon and David T.Butry
Section III. Valuing the Economic Impacts of Forest
Disturbances ..................................... 149
Chapter 8. Designing Economic Impact Assessments for
USFS Wildfire Programs ............................. 151
Karen L.Abt, Robert J.Huggett, Jr., and
Thomas P.Holmes
Chapter 9. Timber Salvage Economics ........................... 167
Jeffrey P.Prestemon and Thomas P.Holmes
Chapter 10.Wildfire and the Economic Value of
Wilderness Recreation .............................. 191
Jeffrey Englin, Thomas P.Holmes, and
Janet Lutz
Chapter 11.Forest Disturbance Impacts on Residential
Property Values .................................... 209
Robert J.Huggett, Jr., Elizabeth
A.Murphy, and Thomas P.Holmes
Chapter 12.Contingent Valuation of Fuel Hazard
Reduction Treatments ............................... 229
John B.Loomis and Armando
Gonzalez-Caban
Section IV. Decision Making in Response to Forest
Disturbances ...................................... 245
Chapter 13.Analyzing Trade-offs between Fuels Management,
Suppression, and Damages from Wildfire ............. 247
D.Evan Mercer, Robert G.Haight, and
Jeffrey P.Prestemon
Chapter 14.A Review of State and Local Regulation for
Wildfire Mitigation ................................ 273
Terry K.Haines, Cheryl R.Renner, and
Margaret A.Reams
Chapter 15.Economic Analysis of Federal Wildfire Management
Programs ........................................... 295
Krista M.Gebert, David E.Calkin, Robert J.
Huggett, Jr., and Karen L.Abt
Chapter 16.Incentives and Wildfire Management in the United
States ............................................. 323
Geoffrey H.Donovan, Thomas C.Brown,
and Lisa Dale
Chapter 17.Forecasting Wildfire Suppression Expenditures for the
United States Forest Service ....................... 341
Karen L.Abt, Jeffrey P.Prestemon,
and Krista Gebert
Chapter 18.Toward a Unified Economic Theory of Fire Program
Analysis with Strategies for Empirical
Modeling ........................................... 361
Douglas B.Rideout, Yu Wei, Andrew
G.Kirsch, and Stephen J.Botti
Chapter 19.Economic Aspects of Invasive Forest Pest
Management ......................................... 381
Thomas P.Holmes, Kathleen P.Bell,
Brenna Byrne, and Jeremy S.Wilson
Index ......................................................... 407
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