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How much can we use the environment without spoiling what we find
so valuable about it? Determining the carrying capacity of parks
and related areas is a perennial question whose urgency grows each
year as the number of visits continues to increase. "Parks and
Carrying Capacity" represents a comprehensive assessment of the
issue, as it: - offers a historical and conceptual treatment
of
carrying capacity
- describes and illustrates research approaches for
assessing carrying capacity, including qualitative and
quantitative
surveys, normative theory and methods, visual research approaches,
trade-off analysis, and simulation modeling
- examines management alternatives for limiting the
environmental
and social impacts of visitor use
- considers the broader question of environmental management
and
how the issue of carrying capacity can be applied more
generally
- discusses how the theory and methods associated with
managing
the carrying capacity of parks and protected areas might be
extended
to other areas of environmental management The book includes a
series of case studies that describe research programsdesigned to
support analysis and management of carrying capacity at eight
diverse units of the U.S. National Park System, and an additional
case study that explores how the foundational components of
carrying capacity (formulating indicators and standards,
monitoring, and adaptive management) are being applied in an
increasing number of environmental and natural resources fields to
address the growing urgency of sustainability. "Parks and Carrying
Capacity" is an important new work for faculty, graduate and
undergraduate students, and researchers inoutdoor recreation, park
planning and management, and natural resource conservation and
management, as well as for professional planners and managers
involved with park and outdoor recreation related agencies and
nongovernmental organizations.
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