STARFire: Strategic budgeting and planning for wildland fire management
Rideout DB, Kirsch AG, Wei Y, Kernohan NJ. 2017. STARFire: Strategic budgeting and planning for wildland fire management. Park Science. 33(1):34-41
University researchers and program analysts at the US Department of the Interior (USDOI) have collaborated to produce the STARFire spatial strategic budgeting and planning system. As the first system of its kind, it addresses concerns expressed by the USDOI Office of Policy Analysis, the National Cohesive Strategy, and the US Government Accountability Office. The system relies on fire behavior, fire probabilities, valuation, and cost information to support four analysis modules: risk analysis, fuel treatment optimization and prioritization, preparedness, and program analysis and budgeting. The system also uses the unique nonmarket and nonmonetized valuation system known as MARS (Rideout et al. 2008) to express values as rates of substitution across the system to facilitate consistent comparisons of alternatives. The system was developed to be scalable and has been applied at the planning unit scale as well as state and regional scales.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Rideout, Douglas; Kirsch, Andrew; Wei, Yu; Kernohan, Nicole
- Units
- SEKI
- Keywords
- budgeting, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, economics, fuels treatment, GIS, National Cohesive Wildfire Management Strategy, National Park Service, planning, preparedness, return on investment, scale, spatial planning