Year: 2006
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: During the summer of 2001, survey data were collected from Colorado residents living near public lands (i.e., the wildland urban interface). Data were collected by telephone after mailing respondents a survey. These data include detailed information of respondents' views towards wildfire management and willingness-to-pay (WTP) values for prescribed burning. Results indicate that Colorado residents living near public lands are aware that fire is a natural process in their area and are in favor of using prescribed burning for fire risk reduction. They also are willing-to-pay an annual tax for prescribed fire undertaken on the public lands near their homes. Respondents' support for adopting a fire risk mitigation policy based on prescribed fire depended on perceived fire frequency intervals. The substantial WTP values for prescribed burning indicate that the public living in the wildland urban interface could potentially pay an annual tax, so the burden of wildfire management need no longer predominantly lie in the hands of the general taxpayers.
Source: Forest Policy and Economics
Authors: Pamela Kaval, John Loomis, Andy Seidl
Institutions: University of Waikato, Colorado State University
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1973133395