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Dr. Butry joined NIST in 2006. From 1999-2006, he served as Economist for the USDA Forest Service, primarily researching the economics of wildland fire. Dr. Butry’s formal training is in the areas of applied microeconomics and econometrics, with specialization in the fields of natural resource economics, environmental economics, and spatial statistics. He is interested in the economics of natural and man-made disasters, and with econometric issues relating to spatial autocorrelation and analysis, endogenous variables, and self-selection. Dr. Butry is leading research in the areas of wildland fire, multi-hazard analysis, and community-scale disaster resilience. Current projects include: Understanding homeowner risk and spatially optimal
mitigation strategies in the wildland-urban interface Spatially analyzing fire damage within wildland-urban
interface communities Measuring the fire resilience of wildland-urban
interface economies at the community-scale Measuring the benefit-cost performance of residential
fire sprinkler systems Measuring the efficacy of fire prevention efforts on
wildfire activity Assessing the cost-effectiveness of fuels management |
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David T. ButryEducationUniversity at Buffalo (The State University of New York), B.A., Political Science, Cum Laude, 1996Duke University, M.E.M., Resource Economics and Policy, 1999 North Carolina State University, Ph.D., Economics, 2006 PositionEconomistOffice of Applied Economics BFRL Headquarters Building and Fire Research Laboratory |
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