Forest fires: Evaluation of government intervention measures

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• dc.contributor.author Ballart, Xavierca
• dc.contributor.author Riba i Romeva, Claraca
• dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
• dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T10:50:02Z
• dc.date.available 2017-07-26T10:50:02Z
• dc.date.issued 2000-03-01
• dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:05:17Z
• dc.description.abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between government measures, volunteer participation, climate variables and forest fires. A number of studies have related forest fires to causes of ignition, to fire history in one area, to the type of vegetation and weather characteristics or to community institutions, but there is little research on the relation between fire production and government prevention and extinction measures from a policy evaluation perspective. An observational approach is first applied to select forest fires in the north east of Spain. Taking a selection of fires with a certain size, a multiple regression analysis is conducted to find significant relations between policy instruments under the control of the government and the number of hectares burn in each case, controlling at the same time the effect of weather conditions and other context variables. The paper brings evidence on the effects of simultaneity and the relevance of recurring to army soldiers in specific days with extraordinary high simultaneity. The analysis also brings light on the effectiveness of two preventive policies and of helicopters for extinction tasks.
• dc.format.mimetype application/pdfca
• dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=463
• dc.identifier.citation Policy Sciences, vol. 35, pp. 361-377, 2002
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/827
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 463
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• dc.subject.keyword forest fires
• dc.subject.keyword policy evaluation
• dc.subject.keyword Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
• dc.title Forest fires: Evaluation of government intervention measuresca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper