Assessing and Adaptively Managing Wildfire Risk in the Wildland-Urban Interface for Future Climate and Land Use Changes

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1. develop a coupled natural-human systems model of the complex socio-ecological interactions among climate change, economic growth, land development and policy, wildfire, and wildfire risk in the WUI, and demonstrate how the community of interest can use the model to adaptively manage wildfire risk in the WUI in response to future climate change and economic growth;
2. test several hypotheses about how future residential development and land use policy influence future wildfire risk in the WUI in the study area;
3. create a Web-based, interactive, spatial decision support tool that facilitates application of real-time adaptive management for wildfire risk in the study area and throughout the U.S.

1. train future practitioners and scientists in interdisciplinary modeling and analysis of a coupled natural-human system for wildfire;
2. increase the capacity of the community of interest to assess and manage future wildfire risk in the WUI;
3. incorporate the research products in educational activities that increase broader community understanding of wildfire and wildfire risk in WUIs undergoing major changes in climate and land use.

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