Fighting Fire with Fire? Adjusting Regulatory Regimes and Forest Product Markets to Mitigate Southern United States Wildfire Risk

Abstract

Climate change will exacerbate disaster events in the U.S. South, and in particular wildfires. This article details the emergent climate-induced wildfire risks facing the U.S. South, describes how addressing those risks is particularly challenging in this region of the U.S., and provides some policy and market-driven approaches for doing so.