Interrelationship between poverty and the wildland--urban interface in metropolitan areas of the Southern US

Seong-Hoon Cho (), Suhyun Jung, Roland Roberts and SeungGyu Kim

Applied Economics, 2012, vol. 44, issue 11, 1405-1416

Abstract: This research disentangles the relationship between Wildland--Urban Interface (WUI) area and poverty in metropolitan areas of the Southern US where urban sprawl has intensified and high-poverty regions have persisted. Results confirm that the enlargement of WUI areas increases urban poverty, which in turn causes WUI areas to expand. This finding validates the underlying hypothesis: expansion of the WUI excludes people in poor inner-city neighbourhoods from educational and economic opportunities that occur in suburban areas and the problems related to inner-city poverty push the rich away from the inner city.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2010.541392

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