Chapter List for “Living on the Edge”
Edited by Austin Troy and Roger Kennedy
Introduction:
1. Sprawling out of control: the current state of suburbanization in wildfire zones. By
a. Austin Troy, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources; Aiken Center Burlington, VT 05405; atroy@uvm.edu
b.
Roger Kennedy, Director Emeritus, the National
Museum of American History; former chief National Park Service; 33 Linnaean Street
Institutions and Policy
2. The origins and legacies of national fire policy. By
a. Roger Kennedy
3. Fire policy in the urban intermix. By
a. Scott Stephens, Division of Ecosystem Science, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, 137 Mulford Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA., 94720-3114
b. Brandon Collins, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, 137 Mulford Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA., 94720-3114; bcollins@nature.berkeley.edu
4. The role of Smart Growth policies and regional agencies in managing the urban wildland interface.
a. By
Robert Paterson, Graduate Program in Community and Regional Planning, The
5. Institutional roadblocks to adopting a wide-scale prescribed burning and fire mitigation regime.
a.
By Kurt Menning, Department
of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, 137 Mulford
Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA., 94720-3114;
The Economics of Hazards
6. The
effects of wildfire disclosure and occurrence on property markets in
a. Austin Troy
b. Jeff
Romm, Department of Environmental Science, Policy,
and Management,
7. Wildfire
Underwriting in
a. Candysse Miller, Executive Director, Insurance Information Network of California 900 Wilshire Blvd., #1414 Los Angeles, CA 90017
8.
A tale of two policies:
a.
Austin
Troy
Community Involvement
9. Community involvement in
wildfire hazard mitigation and management: Community Based Fire Management,
Fire Safe Councils and Community Wildfire Protection Plans. By
a.
David
Ganz, TSS Consultants,
b. Austin Troy
c.
David
Saah, Spatial Informatics Group, LLC.
10. Wildfires and Human Communities:Current Issues in Research and Practice. By
a. Patricia Stokowski, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources; Aiken Center Burlington, VT 05405
Management and Ecology
11. Fueling data models in the urban-wildland interface. By
a.
John Radke, Department of Landscape Architecture and
Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720;
ratt@gisc.berkeley.edu
12. The view from above: a smokejumper’s perspective on the present and future of fire suppression decision-making. By
a. Ben
Machin, Redstart Forestry,
b. Mark
13. The effects of climate change on the occurrence of western wildfire and its implications for the interface zone. By
a. William Keeton, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources; Aiken Center Burlington, VT 05405
b. Philip
Mote, JISAO/SMA Climate Impact Group,
c.