Structure and Properties of a Wilderness Travel Simulator
An Application to the Spanish Peaks Area
1st Edition
Published on 26. November 2013
173 pages
978-1-135-99141-8 (ISBN)
Description
First Published in 2011. This is Volume 10 of in a set of ten titles on Resources for the Future Library Collection Forests, Lands and Recreation. The research on which this monograph is based was stimulated by some ideas presented in George Stankey's A Strategy for the Definition and Management of Wilderness Quality and the conceptual model presented in a paper by Anthony Fisher and John Krutilla entitled, Determination of Optimal Capacity of Resource-Based Recreation Facilities. This study explores in an effort to develop operational means of determining optimal capacity of intended low-density recreation facilities was ( 1 ) to establish the empirical relation between the benefits enjoyed during a wilderness outing as a function, among other things, of the number of other parties encountered, and (2) a means of estimating the expected frequency of encounters as a function of the intensity of use of any wilderness area.
Reviews / Votes
'This is an excellent book for the student of cost-benefit analysis and for those who are charged with the management and conservation of wilderness resources... The computer model will enable the decision-makers to determine the effects of various policies of management and conservation without actual experimentation.'SAFE Journal
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
7,60 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-99141-8 (9781135991418)
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V. Kerry Smith | John V. Krutilla
Structure and Properties of a Wilderness Travel Simulator
An Application to the Spanish Peaks Area
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Content
Chapter 1 Conceptual Considerations in Allocation of Wildlands and Wilderness Resources; Chapter 2 An Outline of the Wilderness Traffic Simulator; Chapter 3 Coding the Spanish Peaks Wilderness Area: Preparation of Input Information; Chapter 4 The Spanish Peaks Base Case; Chapter 5 Sensitivity Experiments With the Spanish Peaks Model; Chapter 6 Use of the Wilderness Simulator with Willingness-to-Pay Relationships; Chapter 7 Concluding Remarks and Research Agenda;
