Structure and Properties of a Wilderness Travel Simulator: An Application to the Spanish Peaks Area / Edition 1

by V. Kerry Smith, John V. Krutilla

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617260391
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/19/2011
Series:	RFF Forests, Lands, and Recreation Set , #10
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Smith, V. Kerry; Krutilla, John V.

Table of Contents

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;

Editorial Reviews

'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

From the Publisher