The influence of risk attitudes on suppression spending and on wildland fire program budgeting
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2019.102087
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Keywords
Fire management; Suppression; Risk aversion; Downside risk; Cost plus net value change; Budgetary institutions;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q23 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Forestry
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
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