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Hilary Faulkner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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complexity of Homeowner wildfire risk mitigation an integration of hazard theories
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2011Co-Authors: Bonita L Mcfarlane, Tara K Mcgee, Hilary FaulknerAbstract:Eachyearwildfire affectscommunitiesinCanada, resultinginevacuationsand,insomecases, loss of homes. Several Canadian wildfire management agencies have initiated mitigation programs aimed at reducing wildfire risk. Successful wildfire mitigation involves both community-level and Homeowner action. This paper examines factors that influence wildfire mitigation by Homeowners. We draw upon the general hazards and wildfire management literature to developandtestatheoreticalmodelforHomeownerwildfiremitigationthatincludesperceivedrisk,anevaluationofthreat significance and the influence of perceived costs and benefits of mitigation. We used a mail survey to collect data from 1265residents insixinterfacecommunitiesintheprovinceofAlberta.Resultsshowedahighlevelofcompletionformost mitigationactivities.Astructuralequationmodelprovidedsupportforthehypothesisthattheevaluationofthreatinvolves weighingthe negative effectsofmitigation onHomeowners' feelingsof connectedness tonatureandthe costof mitigation with the positive influences of fear, a sense of responsibility and perceived effectiveness of mitigation. Considering the total effects, threat assessment had the greatest effect on mitigation by Homeowners, followed by perceived effectiveness of mitigation in reducing damage and not having financial resources for mitigation. Additional keywords: natural hazard, risk perception, wildland-urban interface.
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comparison of Homeowner response to wildfire risk among towns with and without wildfire management
Environmental Hazards, 2009Co-Authors: Hilary Faulkner, Bonita L Mcfarlane, Tara K McgeeAbstract:Few studies have examined the relationship between wildfire management by government agencies and Homeowner wildfire risk mitigation. The goal of this paper is to compare perception of the wildfire risk, attribution of responsibility for mitigation, awareness of wildfire and mitigation, and adoption of wildfire mitigation activities among Homeowners in towns where wildfire management activities have been completed by government (management group) and towns where no activities have been completed (no management group). Data were collected by mail survey of Homeowners in six communities in Alberta, Canada during 2007. Results showed the people in the management group expressed higher levels of perceived risk and greater awareness of wildfire and mitigation than those in the no management group, but they did not attribute greater responsibility for mitigation to the Homeowner nor complete more mitigation activities on their properties.
Tara K Mcgee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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complexity of Homeowner wildfire risk mitigation an integration of hazard theories
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2011Co-Authors: Bonita L Mcfarlane, Tara K Mcgee, Hilary FaulknerAbstract:Eachyearwildfire affectscommunitiesinCanada, resultinginevacuationsand,insomecases, loss of homes. Several Canadian wildfire management agencies have initiated mitigation programs aimed at reducing wildfire risk. Successful wildfire mitigation involves both community-level and Homeowner action. This paper examines factors that influence wildfire mitigation by Homeowners. We draw upon the general hazards and wildfire management literature to developandtestatheoreticalmodelforHomeownerwildfiremitigationthatincludesperceivedrisk,anevaluationofthreat significance and the influence of perceived costs and benefits of mitigation. We used a mail survey to collect data from 1265residents insixinterfacecommunitiesintheprovinceofAlberta.Resultsshowedahighlevelofcompletionformost mitigationactivities.Astructuralequationmodelprovidedsupportforthehypothesisthattheevaluationofthreatinvolves weighingthe negative effectsofmitigation onHomeowners' feelingsof connectedness tonatureandthe costof mitigation with the positive influences of fear, a sense of responsibility and perceived effectiveness of mitigation. Considering the total effects, threat assessment had the greatest effect on mitigation by Homeowners, followed by perceived effectiveness of mitigation in reducing damage and not having financial resources for mitigation. Additional keywords: natural hazard, risk perception, wildland-urban interface.
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comparison of Homeowner response to wildfire risk among towns with and without wildfire management
Environmental Hazards, 2009Co-Authors: Hilary Faulkner, Bonita L Mcfarlane, Tara K McgeeAbstract:Few studies have examined the relationship between wildfire management by government agencies and Homeowner wildfire risk mitigation. The goal of this paper is to compare perception of the wildfire risk, attribution of responsibility for mitigation, awareness of wildfire and mitigation, and adoption of wildfire mitigation activities among Homeowners in towns where wildfire management activities have been completed by government (management group) and towns where no activities have been completed (no management group). Data were collected by mail survey of Homeowners in six communities in Alberta, Canada during 2007. Results showed the people in the management group expressed higher levels of perceived risk and greater awareness of wildfire and mitigation than those in the no management group, but they did not attribute greater responsibility for mitigation to the Homeowner nor complete more mitigation activities on their properties.
Kathleen A Miller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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wildfire risk and climate change the influence on Homeowner mitigation behavior in the wildland urban interface
Society & Natural Resources, 2010Co-Authors: Stacey Schulte, Kathleen A MillerAbstract:This project examines the sensitivity of behavior and attitudes regarding wildfire risk to perceptions of drought and climate change impacts, and documents the current state of Homeowner risk mitigation effort in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Survey results demonstrate that Homeowners have a fairly accurate understanding of the impact of climate change and other environmental risk factors, and that the majority have undertaken the most obvious risk mitigation investments, such as pruning vegetation around the home. Perception of climate and weather as risk factors has a significant impact on risk perception and concern about wildfire but is not a determinant of advanced mitigation effort. Further mitigation effort primarily relates to the value Homeowners place on amenities associated with their house and their perception of the impact of neighboring lands mitigation.
Bonita L Mcfarlane - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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complexity of Homeowner wildfire risk mitigation an integration of hazard theories
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2011Co-Authors: Bonita L Mcfarlane, Tara K Mcgee, Hilary FaulknerAbstract:Eachyearwildfire affectscommunitiesinCanada, resultinginevacuationsand,insomecases, loss of homes. Several Canadian wildfire management agencies have initiated mitigation programs aimed at reducing wildfire risk. Successful wildfire mitigation involves both community-level and Homeowner action. This paper examines factors that influence wildfire mitigation by Homeowners. We draw upon the general hazards and wildfire management literature to developandtestatheoreticalmodelforHomeownerwildfiremitigationthatincludesperceivedrisk,anevaluationofthreat significance and the influence of perceived costs and benefits of mitigation. We used a mail survey to collect data from 1265residents insixinterfacecommunitiesintheprovinceofAlberta.Resultsshowedahighlevelofcompletionformost mitigationactivities.Astructuralequationmodelprovidedsupportforthehypothesisthattheevaluationofthreatinvolves weighingthe negative effectsofmitigation onHomeowners' feelingsof connectedness tonatureandthe costof mitigation with the positive influences of fear, a sense of responsibility and perceived effectiveness of mitigation. Considering the total effects, threat assessment had the greatest effect on mitigation by Homeowners, followed by perceived effectiveness of mitigation in reducing damage and not having financial resources for mitigation. Additional keywords: natural hazard, risk perception, wildland-urban interface.
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comparison of Homeowner response to wildfire risk among towns with and without wildfire management
Environmental Hazards, 2009Co-Authors: Hilary Faulkner, Bonita L Mcfarlane, Tara K McgeeAbstract:Few studies have examined the relationship between wildfire management by government agencies and Homeowner wildfire risk mitigation. The goal of this paper is to compare perception of the wildfire risk, attribution of responsibility for mitigation, awareness of wildfire and mitigation, and adoption of wildfire mitigation activities among Homeowners in towns where wildfire management activities have been completed by government (management group) and towns where no activities have been completed (no management group). Data were collected by mail survey of Homeowners in six communities in Alberta, Canada during 2007. Results showed the people in the management group expressed higher levels of perceived risk and greater awareness of wildfire and mitigation than those in the no management group, but they did not attribute greater responsibility for mitigation to the Homeowner nor complete more mitigation activities on their properties.
Michael J. Wasylenko - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Mobility Patterns of Older Homeowners: Are Older Homeowners Trapped in Distressed Neighborhoods?
Research on Aging, 1995Co-Authors: Richard V. Burkhauser, Barbara A. Butrica, Michael J. WasylenkoAbstract:Using multiyear data from the Panel Study on Income Dynamics geo-code match file, the authors confirm that older Homeowners were substantially less likely to move during the 1970s than younger Homeowners. But unlike younger Homeowners, older Homeowners were also less likely to move from a distressed neighborhood than from a secure one. Of the population of older Homeowners alive in 1980 who had lived in a permanently distressed neighborhood in 1970, only about 1 in 10 had moved to a secure neighborhood in the intervening 10 years. Younger Homeowners in similar neighborhoods were three times more likely to have done so.