| Autor: |
Sisante, Angelo M., Taylor, Michael H., Rollins, Kimberly S. |
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International Journal of Wildland Fire; 2019, Vol. 28 Issue 11, p901-911, 11p |
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This article analyses homeowners' decisions to undertake fire-safe investments and create defensible space on their property using a unique dataset from 35 wildland–urban interface communities in Nevada. The dataset combines homeowner information from a mail survey with their observed fire-safe investments obtained through parcel-level hazard assessments. We find that homeowners' self-reported mitigation expenditures are driven by their subjective beliefs about their wildfire risk, whereas observed defensible space status is driven by their costs of investment. We develop a theoretical model of a homeowner's fire-safe investment decision that accounts for our empirical results. This article uses a unique dataset from 35 wildland–urban interface communities in Nevada to analyse how a homeowner's decision to undertake a generic fire-safe investment is different than their decision to perform the suite of fire-safe investments necessary to create adequate defensible space on their property. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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