@article{ref1,
title="Economic susceptibility of fire-prone landscapes in natural protected areas of the southern Andean Range",
journal="Science of the total environment",
year="2018",
author="Molina, Juan Ramón and Moreno, Roberto and Castillo, Miguel and Rodríguez y Silva, Francisco",
volume="619-620",
number="",
pages="1557-1565",
abstract="Large fires are the most important disturbances at landscape-level due to their ecological and socioeconomic impacts. This study aimed to develop an approach for the assessment of the socio-economic landscape susceptibility to fire. Our methodology focuses on the integration of economic components of landscape management based on contingent valuation method (CVM) and net-value change (NVC). This former component has been estimated using depreciation rates or changes on the number of arrivals to different natural protected areas after a large fire occurrence. Landscape susceptibility concept has been motivated by the need to assist fire prevention programs and environmental management. There was a remarkable variation in annual economic value attributed to each protected area based on the CVM scenario, ranging from 40,189-46,887$/year (&quot;Tolhuaca National Park&quot;) to 241,000-341,953$/year (&quot;Conguillio National Park&quot;). We added landscape susceptibility using depreciation rates or tourist arrival decrease which varied from 2.04% (low fire intensity in &quot;Tolhuaca National Park&quot;) to 76.67% (high fire intensity in &quot;Conguillio National Park&quot;). The integration of this approach and future studies about vegetation resilience should seek management strategies to increase economic efficiency in the fire prevention activities.<br><br>Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0048-9697",
doi="10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.233",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.233"
}