Risk management : core principles and practices, and their relevance to wildland fire / Matthew P. Thompson, Donald G. MacGregor, and David E. Calkin.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Matthew P., author.

MacGregor, Donald G. (Donald Gordon), 1946- author.

Calkin, David E., author.

Contributor:

Rocky Mountain Research Station (Fort Collins, Colo.), issuing body.

Series:

General technical report RMRS ; 350.

General technical report RMRS ; 350

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk management--United States.

Risk management.

Wildfires--United States--Prevention and control.

Wildfires.

Fire risk assessment--United States.

Fire risk assessment.

Wildfires--Prevention and control.

United States.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 29 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Core principles and practices, and their relevance to wildland fire

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, CO : United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, May 2016.

Summary:

The Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture faces a future of increasing complexity and risk, pressing financial issues, and the inescapable possibility of loss of human life. These issues are perhaps most acute for wildland fire management, the highest risk activity in which the Forest Service engages. Risk management (RM) has long been put forth as an appropriate approach for addressing fire, and agency-wide adoption of RM principles and practices will be critical to bring about necessary change and improve future decisions. To facilitate more comprehensive adoption of formal RM frameworks, we designed this report as an introduction to RM. We repackaged and repurposed information from the extant RM literature to help readers develop a sound, science-based understanding of RM concepts. A primary intent of the report is to bring coherence and consistency to a topic that the Forest Service and the fire community have been discussing for years. We outline what adoption of RM would look like in practice, and recommend next steps as the Forest Service continues on its RM journey. Ultimately, we hope fostering an improved understanding of RM will lead to higher probabilities of achieving desired outcomes and conditions.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed August 18, 2016).

"May 2016."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-29).

OCLC:

954476699