1st Edition
Structure and Properties of a Wilderness Travel Simulator An Application to the Spanish Peaks Area
194 Pages
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RFF Press
173 Pages
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RFF Press
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
Smith, V. Kerry; Krutilla, John V.
'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
