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Fire extinction.

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Fire protection engineering --- Fire prevention --- Fire extinction --- Civil Engineering

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Wildfires --- Fire extinction --- Fire prevention --- Bush fires --- Bushfires --- Wild fires --- Wildland fires --- Fires --- Prevention and control. --- Risk assessment.

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In this age of climatic and financial uncertainty, it becomes increasingly important to balance the cost, benefits and risk of wildfire management. In the United States, increased wildland fire activity over the last 15 years has resulted in drastic damage and loss of life. An associated rapid increase in fire management costs has consumed higher portions of budgets of public entities involved in wildfire management, challenging their ability to fulfill other responsibilities. Increased public scrutiny highlights the need to improve wildland fire management for cost effectiveness. This book closely examines the development of basic wildfire suppression cost models for the United States and their application to a wide range of settings from informing incident decision making to programmatic review. The book also explores emerging trends in suppression costs and introduces new spatially explicit cost models to account for characteristics of the burned landscape. Finally, it discusses how emerging risk assessment tools can be better informed by integrating management cost models with wildfire simulation models and values at risk. Economics of Wildfire Management is intended for practitioners as a reference guide. Advanced-level students and researchers will also find the book invaluable.

Wildfires --- Fire management. --- Prevention and control. --- Fires --- Management, Fire --- Fire extinction --- Fire prevention --- Management --- Environmental economics. --- Forests and forestry. --- Business. --- Environmental Economics. --- Forestry Management. --- Business and Management, general. --- Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics. --- Trade --- Economics --- Commerce --- Industrial management --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- Agriculture --- Natural resources --- Afforestation --- Arboriculture --- Logging --- Timber --- Tree crops --- Trees --- Environmental quality --- Environmental aspects --- Economic aspects --- Forestry management. --- Management science. --- Mathematical models. --- Models, Mathematical --- Simulation methods --- Quantitative business analysis --- Problem solving --- Operations research --- Statistical decision --- Forest administration --- Forest plants --- Forest resource administration --- Forest resource management --- Forest stewardship --- Forest vegetation management --- Forestry management --- Forests and forestry --- Stewardship, Forest --- Vegetation management, Forest --- Ecosystem management --- Administration --- Control

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 This SpringerBrief reviews current home fire sprinkler system costs in one- and two-family dwellings, mobile homes, and multifamily residential buildings up to four stories. It provides individual community data and qualitative data gained through interviews with community officials, builders, and fire sprinkler contractors. The systems are reviewed against a 2008 benchmark study in order to analyze how the increasingly widespread adoption of national sprinkler ordinances impacts system cost. Using 51 homes in 17 communities, the authors discuss the impact of sprinkler ordinances on home fire sprinkler system cost, including extent of coverage, system types, water sources, permit and inspection fees, and statewide requirements. Methods and community comparisons are presented with the analysis. Home Fire Sprinkler Assessment is intended for practitioners working with sprinkler codes and building regulation safety. Researchers working in a related field will also find the book valuable.

Fire sprinklers --- Dwellings --- Costs. --- Fires and fire prevention --- Domiciles --- Homes --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Residential buildings --- Single-family homes --- Buildings --- Architecture, Domestic --- House-raising parties --- Household ecology --- Housing --- Automatic sprinklers --- Sprinkler systems, Fire --- Sprinkling systems, Fire --- Fire extinction --- Sprinklers --- Equipment and supplies --- Civil engineering. --- Statistics. --- System safety. --- Architecture. --- Civil Engineering. --- Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Building Types and Functions. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Safety, System --- Safety of systems --- Systems safety --- Accidents --- Industrial safety --- Systems engineering --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Engineering --- Public works --- Design and construction --- Prevention --- Statistics . --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Buildings. --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Architecture --- Built environment