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Kochi, Ikuho, Patricia A. Champ, John B. Loomis, Geoffrey H. Donovan. 2012. Valuing mortality impacts of smoke exposure from major southern California wildfires. Journal of Forest Economics. 18:61-75. Full Text

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H., Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Krista Gebert2011. The effect of newspaper coverage and political pressure on wildfire suppression costs. Society and Natural Resources. 24:785-798 Full Text

 

Kochi, Ikuho, Geoffrey H. Donovan, Patricia A. Champ, John B. Loomis. 2010. The economic cost of adverse health effects from wildfire-smoke exposure: a review. International Journal of Wildland Fire.19:803-817. Full Text

 

Champ, Patricia A., Geoffrey H. Donovan, Christopher M. Barth 2010. The Relationship between Wildfire Risk and Home Purchase Decisions:  Market and Household Level Analyses. Society and Natural Resources.23:58-70. Full Text

 

Canton-Thompson, J., Gebert, K., Thompson, B., Jones, G., Calkin, D., and Donovan, G.H. External factors in incident management team decision making and their effect on large fire suppression expenditures. Journal of Forestry. 106(8):416-424. Full Text

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H., Thomas C. Brown. 2008. Estimating the avoided fuel treatment costs of wildfire. Western Journal of Applied Forestry. 23(4):197-201. Full Text

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H., Thomas C. Brown, Lisa Dale. 2008. Incentives and wildfire management in the United Sates. In The Economics of Forest Disturbances: Wildfires, Storms, and Invasive Species. Thomas P. Holmes, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, and Karen L. Abt Eds. Springer. 323-340. Full Text

 

Butry, David T., Geoffrey H. Donovan. 2008. Protect thy neighbor: the spatial externalities of wildfire hazard mitigation. Forest Science. 54(4):417-428. Full Text

 

Prestemon, Jeffrey P., Geoffrey H. Donovan. 2008. Single Stage Forecasting for Resource Allocation Decisions under Climate Uncertainty. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 90(4):1118-1129. Full Text

 

Champ, Patricia A., Geoffrey H. Donovan, Christopher M. Barth 2008. Wildfire risk and the housing market. Western Rural Development Center Newsletter. 5-6. Full Text

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H., Patricia A. Champ, David T. Butry. 2007. The impact of wildfire risk on housing price: A case study from Colorado Springs. Land Economics. 83(2):217-233. Full Text   Summary

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H., Patricia A. Champ, David T. Butry. 2007. Measuring the efficacy of a wildfire education campaign in Colorado Springs. Journal of Emergency Management. 5(3): 33-37. Full Text

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H., Thomas C. Brown. 2007. Be careful what you wish for: the legacy of Smokey Bear. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 5(2): 73-79. Full Text

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H. 2007. Comparing the costs of agency and contract fire crews. Fire Management Today. 67(1): 9-12.

 

Canton-Thompson, Janie; Thompson, Brooke; Gebert, Krista; Calkin, David; Donovan, Geoff; Jones, Greg. 2006. Factors affecting fire suppression costs as identified by incident management teams. RMRS-RN-30. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 10 p. Full Text

 

Hesseln, Hayley, Geoffrey H. Donovan, Alison H. Berry. 2006. The effect of the wildland-urban-interface on prescribed burning costs in the Pacific Northwest. Western Journal of Applied Forestry. 21(2):72-78.

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H. 2006. Determining the optimal mix of federal and contract fire crews: a case study from the Pacific Northwest. Ecological Modeling. 194:372-378. Full Text

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H. 2005. A comparison of the costs of Forest Service and contract fire crews.Western Journal of Applied Forestry. 20(4):233-239. Full Text   Summary

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H., Thomas C. Brown. 2005. Wildfire management in the US Forest Service: a brief history. Natural Hazards Observer. 29(6):1-3. Full Text

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H., Thomas C. Brown. 2005. An alternative incentive structures for wildfire management on national forest land. Forest Science. 51(5):387-395. Full Text

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H., Peter Noordijk. 2005. A comparison of wildland fire situation analysis (WFSA) predictions and actual outcomes Fire Management Today. 65(2):25-27. Full Text

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H., Peter Noordijk. 2005. Assessing the accuracy of wildland fire situation analysis (WFSA) fire size and suppression cost estimates. Journal of Forestry. 103(1): 10-13. Full Text

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H., Peter Noordijk, Volker, RadeloffEstimating the impact of proximity to housing on wildfire suppression costs in Oregon and Washington. The 2nd symposium on fire economics and policy: a global view. Cordoba, Spain. April 2004.

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H. and Douglas B. Rideout. 2003. An integer programming model to optimize resource allocation for wildfire containment. Forest Science 49(2): 330-334. Full Text

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H. and Douglas B. Rideout. 2003. A reformulation of the cost plus net value change (C+NVC) model of wildfire economics. Forest Science 49(2):318-323. Full Text

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H., Douglas B. Rideout, Philip N. Omi. The economic efficiency of the National Fire Management System and FIREPRO. In Fire economics and policy: bottom lines; 1999 April 5-9, San Diego, CA; Eds. A. Gonzalez-Caban and P.N. Omi; PSW Research Station, Berkeley, CA; 332p



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