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Pesentations Given

Presentations Given

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"Arson Hotspotting: Modeling Intentionally-Set Fires Across Time and Space."

Author(s): Butry, D.T.

Venue: Presented at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Science Advisory Committee of the National Association of State Fire Marshals, Washington, DC, February 2010. Invited.

"Economic Analysis of Wildfire Prevention Education in Florida."

Author(s): Butry, D.T., J.P. Prestemon, K.L. Abt, and R. Sutphen

Venue: Presented at the U.S. Forest Service's Regional Fire Prevention Coordinators Meeting, Washington, DC, February 2010. Invited.

"Simulating the Energy Savings from Shade Tree Plantings."

Author(s); Butry, D.T., G.H. Donovan, and J. Kneifel

Venue: Presented at the 2009 INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 2009.

"Economics of Wildland-Urban Interface Fires."

Author(s): Butry, D.T.

Venue: Building and Fire Research Laboratory Annual Fire Conference, April 2009.

"The Economics of Fuels Treatments" 

Author(s): Butry, D.T., and G.H. Donovan

Venue: Presented at the 2008 INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 2008

"Simulating the Trade-Offs Between Wildfire, Prescribed Fire, and Fire Prevention" 

Author(s): Butry, D.T., J.P. Prestemon, K.L. Abt, and R. Sutphen

Venue: Presented at the 2008 INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 2008

"Estimating the Value of Street Trees in Portland, Oregon"

Author(s): Butry, D.T., and G.H. Donovan

Venue: Presented at the 2008 INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 2008

"Applying Program Evaluation Methods to Natural Resource Policy: Are Current Wildfire Mitigation Programs Effective?" 

Author(s): Butry, D.T., S.K. Pattanayak, E.O. Sills, and D.E. Mercer

Venue: Presented at the 2008 Environmental Evaluators Networking Forum, Washington, D.C., June 2008 

"Identifying Optimal Incentive Strategies to Encourage Wildfire-Risk Mitigation in the WUI"

Author(s): Butry, D.T. and G.H. Donovan

Venue: Presented at the III International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy: Common Problems and Approaches, Carolina, Puerto Rico, April 2008

"Protect Thy Neighbor: Investigating the Spatial Externalities of Community Wildfire Hazard Mitigation"  

Author(s): Butry, D.T. and G.H. Donovan 

Venue: Presented at the International Association of Wildland Fire's Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire, Ft. Collins, CO, October 2007

"Applying Program Evaluation Methods to Natural Resource Policy: Are Wildfire Suppression Expenditures Worth It?" 

Author(s): Butry, D.T., S.K. Pattanayak, E.O. Sills, and D.E. Mercer

Venue: Presented at the Allied Social Science Association Winter Meeting, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Session, Boston, MA, January 2006

"Estimating the Efficacy of Fighting Fire: Propensity Score and Instrumental Variable Methods" 

Author(s): Butry, D.T.

Venue: Presented at the North Carolina State University Agricultural Economics Workshop, Raleigh, NC, October 2005

"Spatio-Temporal Wildland Arson Crime Functions"  

Author(s): Butry, D.T. and J.P. Prestemon

Venue: Presentedat the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, July 2005

"Estimating the Effect Wildfire Management has on Fire Behavior: A Propensity-Score Matching Approach" 

Author(s): Butry, D.T. and M.L. Gumpertz

Venue: Presented at the Fields Institute's Workshop on Forest Fires and Point Processes, Toronto, Canada, May 2005

"Estimating Wildfire Management Effectiveness on Fire Damage" 

Author(s): Butry, D.T., M.L. Gumpertz, and M.G. Genton

Venue: Presented at the International Biometric Society's 2005 Eastern North America Regional Meeting, Austin, TX, March 2005

"Determining Wildfire Risk and Optimal Treatment Strategies Using Broad-Scale Models"

Author(s): Butry, D.T. and J.P. Prestemon

Venue: Presented at Seven Hills Regional User Group for GIS Third Annual GIS Workshop, Tallahassee, FL, November 2004

"Factors Affecting Wildland Arson Rates on National Forests of the Western U.S." 

Author(s): Butry, D.T. and J.P. Prestemon

Venue: Presented at the 2004 International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Keystone, CO, June 2004

"Florida, Prescribed Fire, and the 1990's"  

Author(s): Butry, D.T., J.M. Pye, and J.P. Prestemon 

Venue: Presented at the Eleventh Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference, Knoxville, TN, March 2001

"A Cost and Production Function Approach to Modeling the 1998 Catastrophic Wildfires in Florida"

Author(s): Butry, D.T., J.P. Prestemon, D.E. Mercer, T.P. Holmes, J.M. Pye

Venue: Presented at Fire Conference 2000: The First National Congress on Fire Ecology, Prevention, and Management, San Diego, CA, November 2000

"Weak Complementary of Forest and Farms: A Spatial Econometric Approach to Ecosystem Valuation in Developing Countries" 

Author(s): Pattanayak, S.K. and D.T. Butry

Venue: Presented at Camp Resources VIII, organized by the North Carolina State University Center for Environmental and Resource Economics and Policy, Wilmington, NC August 2000

"Welfare Implications of Tropical Forest Conservation: The Case of Ruteng Park"

Author(s): Butry, D.T. and S.K. Pattanayak

Venue: Presented at Camp Resources VII, organized by the Duke University Center for Resource and Environmental Economics, Wilmington, NC August 1999

"Tropical Forest Conservation in Ruteng Park: Welfare Implications of a Command and Control Strategy"

Author(s): Butry, D.T. and S.K. Pattanayak    

Venue: Presented at the Southern Forest Economics Workshop, Biloxi, MS, April 1999

Created May 19, 2009, Updated October 5, 2010