TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Understanding homeowners' decisions to mitigate wildfire risk and create defensible space
JO  - International journal of wildland fire
A1  - Sisante, Angelo M.
A1  - Taylor, Michael H.
A1  - Rollins, Kimberly S.
SP  - 901
EP  - 911
VL  - 28
IS  - 11
N2  - 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.     Additional keywords: economics, natural disasters, policy, uncertainty, wildland-urban interface.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1049-8001
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF18201
ID  - ref1
ER  -