Influences on Wildfire Hazard Exposure in Arizona's High Country

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ID12164382
AutoresTimothy W Collins (0000-0003-3200-616X, The University of Texas at El Paso, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen22
Número3
Páginas211-229
Fecha de publicación2009-02-07
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociety & Natural Resources (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0894-1920 • E-ISSN: 1521-0723
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08941920801905336
OpenAlexW2153937487
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas17

Based on the case of wildfire hazards in Arizona forests, this article addresses the question: What influences hazard exposure? Like other locales in the U.S. West, the study area has developed as large wildfires have occurred with increasing frequency. Management interventions have traditionally been based on the hypothesis that unsafe conditions result from inadequate residential knowledge of wildfire hazards. Findings from a household-level multiple regression analysis using structured survey, hazard exposure, and secondary data provide little support for this approach and underlying hypothesis. Results reveal that other variables—corresponding to amenity values, reliance on fire insurance, place dependency, and housing contextual factors—are important predictors of household exposure to wildfire hazards. Findings have implications for theoretical understandings of wildfire hazards and hazard reduction efforts in private community landscapes

Amenity · Business · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Hazard · Natural hazard · Psychological intervention · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental Science · Fire effects on ecosystems · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Psychology · Ecology

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