During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law ranging from judicial behaviour to contracts. This book will reflect the first-ever forum for law and economics scholars to apply the analysis and methodologies of their field to the subject of wildfire.
During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law ranging from judicial behaviour to contracts. This book will reflects the first-ever forum for law and economics scholars to apply the analysis and methodologies of their field to the subject of wildfire. The only modern legal work on wildfire, the book brings together leading scholars to consider questions such as: How can public policy address the effects of climate change on wildfire, and wildfire on climate change? Are the environmental and fiscal costs of ex ante prevention measures justified? What are the appropriate levels of prevention and suppression responsibility borne by private, state, and federal actors? Can tort liability provide a solution for realigning the grossly distorted incentives that currently exist for private landowners and government firefighters? Do the existing incentives in wildfire institutions provide incentives for efficient private and collective action and how might they be improved?
1. Common Law Liability for Fire: A Conceptual, Historical and Economic
Analysis
2. Property and Fire
3. Fuel for the Fire: Liability and the
Economics of Wildfire Risk
4. Economics and the Organization of Wildfire
Suppression
5. Norms of Fire Suppression among Public and Private Landowners
6. Saving Forests, Saving Houses, or Burning Money: The Political Economy of
Wildfire Management
7. When "Smoke Isnt Smoke": Missteps in Air Quality
Regulation of Wildfire Smoke
8. Private and Public Provision of Firefighting
Services in Rural Australia
9. Fire Suppression Policy, Weather and Western
Wildland Fire Trends: An Empirical Analysis
10. In Harms Way: Homeowner
Behavior and Wildland Fire Policy
Karen M. Bradshaw is a judicial clerk for the Honorable E. Grady Jolly of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Dean Lueck is a professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona. Prior to his academic career, he was a smokejumper with the USDA Forest Service in McCall, Idaho.
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