Abstract
This research disentangles the relationship between Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) area and poverty in metropolitan areas of the Southern US where urban sprawl has intensified and high-poverty regions have persisted. Results confirm that the enlargement of WUI areas increases urban poverty, which in turn causes WUI areas to expand. This finding validates the underlying hypothesis: expansion of the WUI excludes people in poor inner-city neighbourhoods from educational and economic opportunities that occur in suburban areas and the problems related to inner-city poverty push the rich away from the inner city.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1405-1416 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Applied Economics |
Volume | 44 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2012 |