Veronique Florec
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Veronique Florec is a Research Associate at the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy (University of Western Australia). She completed her PhD in 2016, in which she applied economic analysis to prescribed burning in the south-west of WA. She is currently working on projects that apply economic analysis to other natural hazards to help decision makers get better value for money from public investments in natural hazard management.

Fire crews conduct a prescribed burn in the Adelaide Hills.
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How much do we invest in prescribed burning?

In the last few decades, the frequency of large, intense wildfires has increased in many places around the world. These fires have caused significant social, economic and environmental impacts. They have also contributed to significant increases in suppression expenditures (i.e.…

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