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Forest Fire Valluation A Survey Pere Riera – UAB Robert Mavsar – SFI Joan Mogas - URV Introduction Survey limited to Papers in English Mostly journal published (non-grey) literature Restricted to accounting for costs and benefits in relation to forest fires
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Forest Fire Valluation A Survey Pere Riera – UAB Robert Mavsar – SFI Joan Mogas - URV
Introduction • Survey limited to • Papers in English • Mostly journal published (non-grey) literature • Restricted to accounting for costs and benefits in relation to forest fires • Interested in seeing how, how much and where
Fire phases typology • Prevention • Wildfire • Restoration
Restoration • Immediate costs • e.g. mulching, erosion barriers, seeding • Prolonged costs • e.g. reforestation, infrastructure reconstruction, research projects
Wildfire • Suppression costs • Damage costs
Wildfire, suppression • Suppression costs • personal, equipment, logistic costs, etc.
Wildfire, damages • Market goods damage accounting • timber, property losses, economic activity losses, etc.
Wildfire, damages • Non-market goods damage accounting • biodiversity, health effects, habitats, etc.
Prevention measures Main types of prevention measures • Prescribed burning • Mechanical treatments • Chemical treatments
Prevention measures Main costs • Implementation costs • Market goods damage accounting • Non-market goods damage accounting
Prevention measures • Cost comparison • analyzing costs • different types of prevention measures
Prevention measures • Benefit comparison • with and without prevention measures Prescribed burning (certainty) Wildfire (uncertainty)
Prevention measures • Cost benefit analysis of prescribed burning
Conclusions • Conclusions are drawn from a survey with some limitations (mainly from papers published in English) • Little attention to the economics of forest fires when compared to other disciplines
Conclusions • For restoration • very few papers • market price based • For wildfire • a great deal of dispersion on values • market price approaches still dominate • For prevention • some consensus on prescribed burning as best measure • Contingent valuation dominated
Conclusions • Geographically, USA dominance in the studies • Not much in Mediterranean forests (except for California) • Studies tend to be driven • by compensation (wildfire) or • by policy (wildfire and prevention)
