Outreach Programs, Peer Pressure, and Common Sense: What Motivates Homeowners to Mitigate Wildfire Risk?

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Environmental Management

• Publication date

  2011-06-26

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Business, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00267-011-9704-6PMID 21706380
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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