Challenges of Accommodating Non-Market Values in Evaluation of Wildfire Suppression in the United States
| dc.creator | Venn, Tyron J. | |
| dc.creator | Calkin, David E. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T18:11:24Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T02:57:13Z | |
| dc.description | Presently, implementing the 2001 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy, which requires fire management priorities to be set on the basis of maximising the market and non-market values to be conserved or enhanced, is extremely challenging because those charged with implementing the policy have limited information about the value that society places on non-market resources at risk. This paper considers the problem of accommodating non-market values affected by wildfire in social benefit-cost analysis. There are substantial gaps in scientific understanding about how the spatial and temporal provision of non-market values are affected by wildfire, and considerable challenges in evaluating social welfare change arising from specific wildfire events. This presents serious impediments to adapting price-based decision-support tools, such as the National Fire Management Analysis System, to meaningfully incorporate non-market values. An alternative decision-support framework is proposed that measures departure from the historic range and variability of ecological conditions for those non-market values that are particularly resistant to price-based analysis. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.9903 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9903/files/sp07ve01.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9903 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/523579 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9903 | |
| dc.title | Challenges of Accommodating Non-Market Values in Evaluation of Wildfire Suppression in the United States | |
| dc.type | Text |