Spatial Endogenous Fire Risk and Efficient Fuel Management and Timber Harvest

Masashi Konoshima, Claire A. Montgomery, Heidi Albers and Jeffrey L. Arthur

No 9700, 2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: This paper integrates a spatial fire behavior model and a stochastic dynamic optimization model to determine the optimal spatial pattern of fuel management and timber harvest. Each year's fire season causes the loss of forest values and lives in the western US. This paper uses a multi-plot analysis and incorporates uncertainty about fire ignition locations and weather conditions to inform policy by examining the role of spatial endogenous risk - where management actions on one stand affect fire risk in that and adjacent stands. The results support two current strategies, but question two other strategies, for managing forests with fire risk.

Keywords: Resource/Energy; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.9700

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