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Exploring the use of economic evaluation in Australian wildland fire management decision-making

Clayton, Helena; Mylek, Melinda; Schirmer, Jacqueline; Cary, Geoffrey; Dovers, Stephen

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Wildland fire managers make daily decisions about ways to allocate scarce resources to meet policy objectives. Making these decisions has become more challenging as the frequency and size of fires increase, as does associated risk to assets and costs of management. There is growing interest in using economic evaluation to inform resource allocation decisions, but little work has examined the economic evaluation needs of wildland fire managers, their current use of economic information and the...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorClayton, Helena
dc.contributor.authorMylek, Melinda
dc.contributor.authorSchirmer, Jacqueline
dc.contributor.authorCary, Geoffrey
dc.contributor.authorDovers, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T23:19:01Z
dc.identifier.issn1049-8001
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/65880
dc.description.abstractWildland fire managers make daily decisions about ways to allocate scarce resources to meet policy objectives. Making these decisions has become more challenging as the frequency and size of fires increase, as does associated risk to assets and costs of management. There is growing interest in using economic evaluation to inform resource allocation decisions, but little work has examined the economic evaluation needs of wildland fire managers, their current use of economic information and the factors that aid or hinder use. This study examined these issues through a survey of Australian wildland fire managers in fire management and policy roles. We found that despite strong interest in economic evaluation, managers have limited familiarity with most evaluation methods or use of the information derived. Several actions can improve the use and usefulness of economic evaluation for wildland fire managers: first, building capacity of managers to both commission and use economic information; second, integrating analysis of market and non-market benefits and costs as part of economic evaluation and third, better integrating economic evaluation with the broader context of decision-making processes.
dc.publisherCSIRO Publishing
dc.sourceInternational Journal of Wildland Fire
dc.titleExploring the use of economic evaluation in Australian wildland fire management decision-making
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume23
dc.date.issued2014
local.identifier.absfor070503 - Forestry Fire Management
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4279067xPUB1177
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationClayton, Helena, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationMylek, Melinda, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationSchirmer, Jacqueline, University of Canberra
local.contributor.affiliationCary, Geoffrey, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationDovers, Stephen, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage555
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage566
local.identifier.doi10.1071/WF13140
local.identifier.absseo960505 - Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Forest and Woodlands Environments
dc.date.updated2015-12-10T10:11:27Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84902653559
local.identifier.thomsonID000339245300010
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