The new economics of outdoor recreation / edited by Nick Hanley, W. Douglass Shaw, Robert E. Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanley, Nick.

Shaw, W. Douglass.

Wright, Robert E., 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Outdoor recreation--Economic aspects.

Outdoor recreation.

Outdoor recreation--Environmental aspects.

Econometrics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : E. Elgar, [2003]

Contents:

Part I The Mountains

2. Valuing rock climbing and bouldering access / Therese Grijalva, Robert P. Berrens 21

3. Using economic instruments to manage access to rock-climbing sites in the Scottish Highlands / Nick Hanley, Begona Alvarez-Farizo, W. Douglass Shaw 40

4. Valuing recreational resources using choice experiments: mountaineering in Scotland / Nick Hanley, Robert E. Wright 59

5. Are climbers fools? Modeling risky recreation / Paul M. Jakus, Mary Riddel, W. Douglass Shaw 74

6. Non-participation, demand intensity and substitution effects in an integrable demand system: the case of day trips to the North-Eastern Alps / Riccardo Scarpa, Tiziano Tempesta, Mara Thiene 98

7. Modelling choice and switching behaviour between Scottish ski centres / Geoff Riddington, Colin Sinclair, Nicola Milne 123

Part II Forests

8. Spatial distribution versus efficiency effects of forest recreation policies using a regional travel cost model / W. George Hutchinson, Riccardo Scarpa, Susan M. Chilton, Trevor McCallion 139

9. Perceptions versus objective measures of environmental quality in combined revealed and stated preference models of environmental valuation / Wiktor Adamowicz, Joffre Swait, Peter C. Boxall, Jordan Louviere, Michael Williams 165

10. Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to estimate and transfer recreational demand functions / Ian J. Bateman, Andrew A. Lovett, Julie S. Brainard, Andrew P. Jones 191

11. Backcountry recreationists' valuation of forest and park management features in wilderness parks of the Western Canadian Shield / Peter C. Boxall, David O. Watson, Jeffrey Englin 221

Part III Rivers and the Sea

12. A random utility model of beach recreation / George R. Parsons, D. Matthew Massey 241

13. A finite mixture approach to analyzing income effects in random utility models: reservoir recreation along the Columbia river / J. Scott Shonkwiler, W. Douglass Shaw 268

14. Whalewatching demand and value: estimates from a new 'double-semilog' empirical demand system / Douglas M. Larson, Sabina L. Shaikh 280

15. Estimating recreational trout fishing damages in Montana's Clark Fork River Basin: summary of a natural resource damage assessment / Edward R. Morey, William S. Breffle, Robert D. Rowe, Donald M. Waldman 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1840649852

OCLC:

51028935