Drivers of Wildfire Suppression Costs
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The Effect of Newspaper Coverage and Political Pressure on Wildfire Suppression Costs
Controlling wildfire suppression expenditures has become a major public policy concern in the United States. However, most policy remedies have focused on the biophysical determinants of suppression costs: fuel loads and weather, for example. We show that two non-biophysical variables—newspaper coverage and political pressure—have a significant effect on wildfire suppression costs. Hausman test...
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تاریخ انتشار 2015