Wildfire Risk: Human Perceptions and Management Implications

Section 1: Risk Perspectives 1. Introduction 2. Assessing Public Perspectives of Wildfire Risk Section 2: Community Perspectives 3. Wildfire Risk and Attribution: Viewpoints of Wildland-Urban Interface Residents 4. Collaborative Planning to Reduce Wildfire Risk: Linking Context and Outcomes 5. Altering Perceptions of Risk: Hazardous Fuel Reduction Strategies in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico 6. Integrative Healing: Lessons from Post-Fire Community Recovery Section 3: Individual Perspectives 7. Psychological Foundations for Socially Sustainable Wildfire Risk Management 8. What Motivates Homeowners to Protect Themselves from Risks? 9. Risk Perception, Adaptation and Behavior Change: Self-protective Behavior in the Wildland Urban Interface 10. An Exploration of Diversity in Southwesterners Views of Forest Service Fire Management Section 4: Decision Analytic & Economic Perspectives 11. Avoiding Unnatural Disasters: Lessons for Successfully Navigating the Risk Management Landscape 12. Walking the Talk: Building Public Participation into Science-Based Decision Support for Wildland Fire Management 13. Spatially Arranging Fuel Treatments to Manage Landscape-wide Fire Risk 14. Using Economic Experiments in Policy Evaluations: Exploration of Wildfire Risk Mitigation Decisions 15. Valuing the Health Effects of a Prescribed Fire Section 5: Overview & Summary 16. Summary Comments: Wildfire and Fuels Management: Risk and Human Reaction