The Impact of Residential Development Pattern on Wildland Fire Suppression Expenditures
研究了美国落基山脉北部281场火灾的数据，发现住宅开发的空间模式显著影响扑救支出，控制开发模式的政策效果几乎与完全限制开发相当。
Despite a growing body of literature on the economics of wildland fire suppression, the effect of development pattern in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has received only cursory treatment. We model the relationship between fire suppression expenditures and the spatial pattern of residential development using data from 281 fires in the northern Rocky Mountains. We find that the effect of WUI development on suppression expenditures is dependent on the spatial pattern of development. Our results suggest that policies to control the spatial pattern of WUI development can be nearly as effective as policies that completely restrict WUI development. <i></i>